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Celebrating the Most Talented Curtis Institute of Music Graduates

Plus, a look at the prestigious Rittenhouse school’s rising stars, including a 14-year-old who insists on remaining mononymous.


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Paul Offit vs. RFK Jr. Is the Battle of Our Times

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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

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Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

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Taste: Spirits: Bittersweet

Bitters are medicinal spirits, and definitely an acquired taste. Best known are Angostura bitters in tiny bottles, measured by the drop. Infused wines, like vermouths, […]

Taste: Reviews: Globe-Tripping

Mimosa in East Goshen has its quirks — hard chairs, long gaps between courses, and a cacophony of flavors in certain dishes, to name a […]

Taste: Cookbook: Young & Hungry

His first cooking experience was a disaster, he never went to culinary school, and he never trained in a restaurant, but Philadelphia-born David Lieberman has […]

Taste: Reviews: Italian Revival

In a gleaming open kitchen, against a backdrop of stainless steel, a woman in a black chef’s jacket works the hot line confidently, her titian […]

Taste: Eat This Now: Crudo at Positano Coast

The mandatory raw-fish appetizer travels under the name crudo at Positano Coast, the reconceived Lamberti’s Cucina in Old City. Such dishes are sold elsewhere as […]

Features: Home: Size Matters: Tips for Living Large and Small

How to make small rooms look bigger 1. Color. One of the biggest misconceptions is that painting a small space white makes it appear bigger. […]


Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Our world-champion Eagles, a messy traffic stop, an unexpected councilperson, and the Delco pope

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

A six-figure budget. Hundreds of helpers. Giant art installations. A tentacled kraken. This prom is like no other.


How did a popular, handsome college freshman end up buried in a Bucks County landfill?

TINY TULLYTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, population 2,090, sits on the banks of the Delaware River, 25 miles from Philadelphia. It’s an old, modest town to which the […]

Legends: Requiem for a Heavyweight

ON A WINTRY day last February, Joe Frazier’s eponymous gym was slowly coming to life. A handful of young fighters stretched and wrapped their hands; […]

Forget the hipsters. The biggest force in Philly’s future will be the newly arrived empty-nesters.

IT’S A DELICIOUS day. At Love Park, a lunchtime crowd is lazily soaking up sunshine. A young woman in a bright summer dress drapes a […]

Home: Kitchen Mission: Locals Only: Shopping List

Panzanella Salad Butter, Green Meadow Farm, available at Fair Food Farmstand Garlic, Paradise Organics, available at Fair Food Farmstand Thyme, Overbrook Herb Farm, available at […]

Features: The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter: Part 2

THE AUTOPSY REPORT was sent to the Commission, through the Secret Service, on December 20th. The Commission based its conclusions about the characteristics of Kennedy’s […]

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

Beloved Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo became first-time parents — and gave their species a ray of hope.

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

Fifty years after founding their legendary Philadelphia International Records, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, with friends and collaborators from Thom Bell to John Oates to Patti LaBelle, look back on the musical partnership that came to define the city.


Features: The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter: Part 1

IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE the Warren Commission Report is the truth. Arlen Specter knows it. It is difficult to believe that "all the shots […]

For Philly runners, there are plenty of options when it comes to sneaks that’ll safeguard those knees

If clothes make the man, the shoe definitely makes the runner. And with all the great races coming through town this season — the Father’s […]

Features: The New Neighborhood Nabobs

Northern LibertiesBart Blatstein, 50What he imagines it will be: A “creative class” paradise with live/work spaces for artists, all centered on a piazza.What it is […]

Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Collection turns 50

Five reasons why you should invest in this chair from über-designer/architect Eero Saarinen:  1) When something has retained its cool for half a century, the […]

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