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

How Philly’s leading vaccine doctor became MAHA’s public enemy number one


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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

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How Should We Memorialize Pierre Robert?

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Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

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How a boosted pot here and a ­stolen sweater there spell big ­trouble on Walnut Street

NOT ALL THAT long ago, the biggest problem on Walnut Street — a.k.a. Philly’s sparkliest shopping district — was trying to lure people to it. […]

Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: A Call to Farms

Michael Pollan, the New York Times Magazine‘s go-to scribe on food politics, is at it again with an open letter to our future president. In […]

Wyomissing’s country-music superstar releases her sophomore album, Fearless, this month

In case you wouldn’t know Tim McGraw from a McNugget, here’s what Taylor Swift will have accomplished before she turns 19 next month: released a […]

Campbell Soup heiress Dorrance Hamilton has enjoyed a life of wealth and years as the face of the Main Line

Matt Hamilton already knew that his mother was one of your more independent billionaire heiresses. But even he wasn’t quite prepared for the Bermuda trip. […]

The city’s abuzz about judges who go too easy on hardened criminals. But the problem isn’t just the judges

ONE DAY IN early March 2007, at the Keystone Building in Harrisburg, there was a lottery drawing. Not for cash, but to decide who would […]

Does Philly native Patti LaBelle serve up a hit with her new cookbook and album?

Patti LaBelle Recipes for the Good Life (Karen Hunter; $25) and Back to Now (Verve) Patti LaBelle’s been busy, with a new cookbook, Recipes for […]


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 intising is  David Stout’s recount of Philly’s most infamous unsolved mystery?

Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case of America’s Unknown ChildBy David Stout (Lyons Press; $16.95) In his fifth book, New York Times reporter Stout […]

A Germantown couple now turning the bedtime wishes of the country’s toniest tykes into reality.

Four years ago, JoAnn Means had a vision, and it was of her three-year-old daughter’s bedroom. She turned to her husband Johnny, a self-taught carpenter, […]

Four decades ago, I started my career behind the microphone, and I’ve had a helluva ride.

THE WELLINGTON BUILDING stands at the corner of 19th and Walnut streets, overlooking Rittenhouse Square. The place is staid, stuffy. Heavyweight lawyers, and women who […]

In honor of our centennial, we look back at some of the stories that shaped Philly Mag

One of the most notable stories of the 1990s was Andrew Corsello’s Murky Waters (June 1995), about the mysterious drowning of four West Philly boys […]

He could be as hyped as Stephen Starr, but Steve Cook is too busy to care about that 

On Friday afternoons in early 2007, Steve Cook would head across town from Society Hill to West Philly to catch up with Michael Solomonov, his […]

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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.


Why the Acadaemy of Music’s gaslights are eternal

Seeking to evoke the grandeur of a 19th-century opera house for 1993’s The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese filmed at the Academy of Music. Hardly […]

Vernon Hill and Jack Bogle had never met — until we got them together.

Philly Mag: As we’re sitting here, the stock market recently closed one of its worst weeks in history. What do you make of it? Bogle: Can […]

Who decides what a kid should spend money on? 

I’M IN THE kitchen, making a fruit salad, when my son Jake appears. His cheeks are flushed, his eyes are bright, and his voice is […]

At this very moment, 650,000 Philadelphians are going solo. This month, we tell their stories.

The Bachelorettes Torrie Williams, 24Occupation: Associate producer, FOX 29’s Good Day Philadelphia. Cats or dogs: Dogs. I have a Pomeranian named Dolce. She is definitely a […]

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