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Philly Moments That Made Us Proud in 2025

A year when kids became heroes, sports took the spotlight, and our sandwich finally got its due


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The Editors’ Cut: What We’re Reading, Watching, Doing, and Liking This Week

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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

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How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree in Philadelphia

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Tolls…And Why I Hate Their Guts

It’s time for a revolution

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Do You Trust Snopes.com?

The truth might not be out there

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Men with Wandering Eyes

Enjoying the view or just plain ogling?

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Friday Movie Blog

Catfish: A-

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Jeff Lurie is worth $1 billion

What is this, Bean Town?

A cup of joe isn’t just a caffeine fix anymore — Philly is awash in direct-trade, artisan-roasted, small-batch beans. The trendy labels translate to seriously […]


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.


The ex-publisher, ex-PR guru and possible expatriate spills on winning the Pulitzer, losing $10 million, and what he and Rupert Murdoch have in common

When Brian Tierney arrived as publisher (and lead investor) four years ago at 400 North Broad Street, home of the Inquirer and Daily News, the […]

Keith Primeau, Michael Untermeyer, and other local hot shots are getting into the food biz.

You may know Michael Untermeyer as the 59-year-old lawyer who ran for Philly’s district attorney seat — and lost — in 2009. But soon, you […]

The star of Man Shops Globe dishes on his travels.

Doers of glamorous jobs always seem to protest their career’s fun factors. (See: “Modeling is hard work.”) Not Keith Johnson. At 54, the blue-eyed, Rittenhouse […]

Take a look at the contenders.

Though the mayoral primaries are seven months away, there’s been a lot of chatter lately as to who might have what it takes to unseat […]

No sweet surrender.

City Council squashed Mayor Nutter’s soda tax in May, but there could be some fizz in the idea yet: Rumor has it the Mayor’s vowed […]

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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.


Eighteen of our favorite meals between sliced bread.

Fifteen of our favorite meals between sliced bread.

A farewell to (loving) arms, and all that

Early in the summer after his senior year of high school, my son Jake is sitting at his computer, as usual. He’s playing his favorite […]

Picks for the 11-day DesignPhiladelphia Festival.

Of the 130-plus events in this month’s 11-day DesignPhiladelphia festival, we are quite thrilled about breaking glass in the monster light-up Glassphemy installation, walking among […]

Does the farm-to-table fare at this Wash West restaurant suit its bespoke interior?

Hell hath no fury like a restaurant patron wronged, but usually customers have the decency to suffer rotten food or wretched service before they blow […]

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