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Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

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After smashing through barriers in politics, TV news and the adopting of kids, after surviving a Congressional defeat and her husband’s humiliating fall from grace, after becoming Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, Marjorie Margolies has just one thing to say: What’s next?

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.

Carrie Sarlo-Randazzo doles out baby-shower bliss

Spotted in pink- or blue-crepe-papered living rooms across South Jersey: baby showers that are less pass-around-the-diaper and more meditate-on-the-mat. We’ve traced this trend back to […]

The photographer who’s made a career capturing “the beauty and struggle of everyday life” just completed the final year of her decade-long exhibition under the I-95 overpass. But trips to Louisiana to shoot oil-soaked beaches and a 2012 solo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art keep her knee-deep in new projects. Here, her take on her art, anarchists and Lord of the Rings

I am a … lesbian feminist. I was born in … Pennsylvania Hospital on Pine Street. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for … 38 years. The […]

It’s the age of brains, Philly, which means the real action in town is happening west of the Schuylkill, where new Drexel president John Fry and a host of other bold thinkers are building what could be the city of the future. (Amazing what a guy can do when he only sleeps four hours a night) 

Over the distance of a little more than a dozen blocks, John Fry has guided his immaculate, country-club-ready Land Rover from a cute, leafy street […]

A turn-of-the-century stone colonial on the edge of Chestnut Hill mixes traditional bones and modern decor, pristine family heirlooms and abstract children’s art, to achieve cozy, colorful, lived-in elegance

The Shoemaker family’s Wyndmoor home has thick stone walls and symmetric black-shuttered windows. It has sweeping stairs, original fireplaces, dark cherry floors and crown molding […]

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