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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

Beef bandits, billboard wars, an epic high school prom, and profiles of the biggest names in Philly — it’s our roundup of our favorite stories of 2025.


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How Philly Fell for Krampus — and a Darker Kind of Christmas

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Youth Sports in Philadelphia Are Uneven — and the Gaps Are Growing

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

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Our guide to the best Philadelphia restaurants by neighborhood

  The best thing about Chinatown is that it’s there—always and forever, waiting, crouched and coiled like a bad influence on the shoulder of Center […]

Our guide to the best Philadelphia restaurants by neighborhood

  The East Passyunk neighborhood has always been a great place to eat, even before hipsters and “neighborhood improvement districts” were part of our cultural […]

Our guide to the best Philadelphia restaurants by neighborhood

  It’s hardly a city planner’s recipe for a restaurant revival: Take a street known for on-the-edge produce, garbage-drum fires and nth-generation­ butcher shops; add […]

Our guide to the best Philadelphia restaurants by neighborhood

    It wasn’t so long ago that folks who chose to live in or near Conshohocken had to trek into Center City via the […]

Our guide to the best Philadelphia restaurants by neighborhood

  Midtown Village, and particularly the stretch between Locust and Chestnut, is proof of all the theories for building heat and capturing lightning discussed later […]

The Committee of Seventy used to be a watchdog for Philadelphia elections. Now it’s trying to reform Philadelphia politics. (Good luck with that.)

  It’s Election Day in Philadelphia, and Zack Stalberg—the CEO of the Committee of Seventy, the city elections watchdog—has nothing but time on his hands. […]


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.


In an era when big-box megastores are calling the candy shots, Philly’s renegade chocolatiers are intent on doing it their way. Sweet.

  When the Berley brothers opened the door of Shane Confectionery to the public on December 5th, they were opening the door to the past. […]

No city loves its athletes more than Philadelphia. But would we still love them if …

  It’s a long, thin room inside the NovaCare complex, where the eagles peel off their uniforms after practice. Lockers line both sides. As they […]

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Controversial Tip Law Now Official

If you go out to dinner this weekend in Philadelphia and leave a $20 tip for your server on a credit card, you can rest […]

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Girls Safe, Manhunt Over

Police were searching for a Jersey man that was wanted for questioning in connection with his ex-wife’s murder. He had his 5-year-old and 20-month-old daughters […]

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Boy Trapped in School Stairwell

A 13-year-old was reported missing by his mother yesterday afternoon when he was trapped in a stairwell at Roosevelt Middle School. After multiple searches, the […]

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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.


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McQueary Takes the Stand

Two Penn State administrators are in court in Harrisburg today facing charges related to the alleged coverup of the alleged sexual abuse of young boys […]

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Birdnapped in Jersey

Someone stole (birdnapped?) a screech owl from a center in Jersey that rehabilitates injured birds. “Simon” was hit by a car six years ago and […]

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Newt, It’s Not a Choice

Gingrich compares being gay to celibacy

Taking on Philadelphia tort law

Recently, an editorial in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye and immediately brought back one of the unhappiest periods of my life in Philadelphia. […]

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