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Keep it shiny this season.

Required dressing this holiday season: glitter, spangles, crystal, gleam — the wearable equivalent of  the Academy chandelier.

One night last June, Sabina Rose O’Donnell, a popular young waitress heading home in Northern Liberties, was dragged from her bike, raped, and murdered. An 18-year-old man who lived 10 blocks away, in North Philadelphia, confessed. The media portrayed her killing as random. Given the way the city is changing, it may be anything but.

LATE ONE NIGHT this past June, police say, a very young black man — more like a boy, actually — rode his bike over and […]

The guys behind the Franklin Fountain open Shane Confectionary

Where have all the candy stores gone? We’re talking about magical shops brimming with colorful confections of all shapes and sizes  —  Sky Bars, root […]

Toto Schiavone brings rustic Italian cooking to Blue Bell

It sounds like a task Donald Trump would dream up for the Apprentice contestant everyone hates: Rent a storefront in a strip mall whose street […]

Turn a party foul into a party fave

Forget about 7-Up, floating sherbet mounds and — for those with fraternities on their résumés — buckets of fruit and grain alcohol. Punch — the […]

The local fashionista launches a new line.

In classical ballet, costumes are the opposite of warm-up attire. Bodices, headpieces and tutus intended for onstage wearing 
emphasize look over feel, illusion over comfort, […]

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.

From his earliest days as a public official, Christie has used bluster and overheated rhetoric to take down his enemies. It’s turned him into Angry America’s favorite politician  —  at least until they get a look at what he’s really doing

It’s a Friday night in mid-October, 18 days before the midterm elections, and Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is out on the stump, expertly […]

Holiday presents for all the active people in your life

Philly’s top fitness pros share what they’ve put on their holiday wish lists.  Additional research by Alyssa Brindisi

Greek-born Michael Petrogiannis has built a mini-empire snapping up landmarks like the Melrose and the Mayfair. But is he saving our diners? Or sucking the soul out of them? 

The vintage sign on the side remains, as kitschy as ever. It says MELROSE DINER in neon, with a clock in the shape of a […]

Rock on

For decades — eons, really — Center City jeweler Craig Drake Sr. furnished major bling to a who’s who of women (and the men who […]

Seventy years after its release, it remains the greatest Philadelphia movie ever — an intoxicating cocktail of snappy dialogue and delightful characters perfectly capturing the old-money Main Line. But the tale of how The Philadelphia Story came to be — from Kate Hepburn’s steely determination to save her own career to Hope Montgomery Scott’s earthy joie de vivre — is as rich as anything that made it onto the screen

Katharine Hepburn saved the telegrams. There were certainly enough of them, from all over the Hollywood and Broadway strata. It seemed like almost every day […]

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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.

A house not yet divided

Sick to death already of the Christmas season? Count your blessings. You’re better off than one of our good buddies — let’s call him “Buddy” […]

Mom-and-pop survival in a mega-corp world

When Walnut Street’s Apple store opened in July, gleaming and mother-shippy, some refused to celebrate one more corporate monolith come to squash locally owned treasures. […]

If not Grad Hospital, then what?

The recent mass migration into the area of the city once named for now-defunct Graduate Hospital — the stretch from South to Washington and Broad […]

The North Philadelphia native and attorney talks politics and history in his new autobiography

CHATTING WITH WILLIAM COLEMAN is like listening to your grandpa — one amazing tale after the next, and he says whatever he damn well pleases. […]

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