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To Stave Off Gentrification, Kensington Becomes Its Own Landlord

How one special sliver of the city is redefining what smart neighborhood development can look like in Philadelphia … and far beyond.


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New Documentary Boys to Fame Tells the Most Tender Eagles Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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The Man at the Forefront of the Battle Over Philly’s Slavery Memorial Tells All

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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Ask Monica: How to Re-Enter the Philly Dating Scene

Hey Monica, I’m a 39-year-old divorced man with two young kids. How do I re-enter the dating world in Philadelphia? This is all new to […]

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The Friday Movie Blog

Happy Film Friday, everyone! This week’s Friday Movie Blog has some electrifying changes in store for you. First, you may notice a change in the […]

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What To Do This Weekend

First, you need sustenance, and this weekend, everyone is going crazy for burgers, whether it’s David Ansill’s bone marrow burger at Ladder, burgers and shakes […]

When does a moniker cross the line from something your buddies call you to something official?

So you’re perusing a newspaper story about Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, and you wonder: When does a moniker cross the line from something your buddies […]

This month, tenants of the slender 31-floor luxury residence at 1706 Rittenhouse Square Street begin moving in.

This month, tenants of the slender 31-floor luxury residence at 1706 Rittenhouse Square Street — the new, glittering $145 million love child of Parkway Corp.’s […]

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How the Phillies Made Us a Baseball Town Again

In a summer that saw the world crumbling around us, the Phils pulled through, and pulled us through.


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.


Center City‘s Zavino gets into the pie game.

PHILADELPHIA, LONG CONSIDERED a pizza wasteland, has proven its appetite for upscale pies by keeping the likes of Marc Vetri’s Osteria and Stephen Starr’s Stella […]

How Philly — yes, Philly — is helping the nation eat better.

Sometime after “Wit Whiz” became the unofficial city motto, but before the word “locavore” entered our Philly lexicon, a small nonprofit called the Food Trust […]

It’s been 20 years since we first heard Michaela Majoun’s voice coming to us live from Penn’s WXPN studios.

It’s been 20 years since we first heard Michaela Majoun’s voice coming to us live from Penn’s WXPN studios. Lucky for us, she’s still got […]

In 2007, local Ian Andracchio created a killer 45-minute row-machine workout.

In 2007, local Ian Andracchio created a killer 45-minute row-machine workout (sorta like spinning, but with your arms, too) and set up RowZone, near Rittenhouse […]

This upscale vegetarian restaurant draws customers to 10th and Spring Garden because herbivores will travel for good food.

This upscale vegetarian restaurant draws customers to 10th and Spring Garden because herbivores will travel for good food. As at its sister restaurant, Blue Sage […]

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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.


Han Chiang rules his sunny new Old City outpost with an iron fist.

“Here’s your friggin’ fried rice,” said owner Han Chiang, who rules his sunny new Old City outpost the same way he does his Exton and […]

Eco-friend or eco-faux?

The idea of green as chic appeared in these parts around the time the iPhone became the new Tory Burch ballet flat/Alhambra necklace/Birkin bag. As […]

What do the Mummers Parade, the SEPTA negotiations, the Dad Vail Regatta and the Manayunk bike race have in common?

ONE NIGHT LATE last October, Congressman Bob Brady was home, waiting for the phone to ring. Brady seems to get involved in almost every sensitive […]

Petulia’s Folly is offering a rare sale on all John Derian goods.

John Derian is known for turning vintage découpage and ephemera into endearing domed paperweights, letter trays and lamps. Petulia’s Folly is offering a rare sale […]

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