Longform

Paul Offit vs. RFK Jr. Is the Battle of Our Times

How Philly’s leading vaccine doctor became MAHA’s public enemy number one


Guides

Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

News

How Should We Memorialize Pierre Robert?

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

Latest Stories

Can you guess which invention isn’t real?

Three of these are innovations from fellow Philadelphians. The other one, we made up. Can you find it?

News

Oscar Poll Results

Who did Philly pick?

News

Teacher’s Blog Crusade

Is Munroe a reformer?

Morning Scoop: Santorum Spreading

He’s still fighting the gays

News

When Your Ex Gets Engaged First

How to handle it

News

Road Ragers Are Wusses

Who knew?


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.


Horner got a taste of fame last year on “America’s Got Talent.” So why is he still telling jokes to a roomful of South Philly stoners?

“MAN,” SAYS THE FUNNY GUY with the bushy beard and black-framed glasses. “This is going to be rough.” Doogie Horner is a comedian, and he […]

New PHS head Drew Becher says yes—and that’s just the start of his plan to de-uglify Philadelphia

IT’S NOT EASY BEING DREW BECHER. The new president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is standing in the kitchen of his 85-year-old fieldstone home in […]

The singer, actor and, most famously, man behind the cheesesteak just got back from launching a Bahrain outpost of Tony Luke’s (no joke). Next up: two more locations, in Afghanistan and Kuwait. Here, he opens up about his plan for world peace via Whiz, his (sort of) political aspirations, and the psychic who changed his life

My full name is … Anthony Lucidonio Jr. I am … a sort of Renaissance man. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for … all of my […]

Where to get tiki drinks in Philly

Not in the Caribbean right now? Drink in Philly as if you were, with lush, island-inspired cocktails.

It’s time to rethink how the government spends our money.

One thing our current economic problems have taught us is that we have to think differently about how the government spends our money. All of […]

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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.


Too much chat. Not enough chew

“Jersey Shore.” Christine O’Donnell. Angelo Cataldi. The forces of infantilization stalk the land! But you don’t have to tune into WIP Sportsradio to get your […]

Take the family for a nautical-fun weekend on the Chesapeake Bay.

 (Don’t tell the kids, but you can even work in a history lesson)

Ultra-preppy East Coast sailing capital. History geek’s paradise (with a fascinating — if somewhat flimsy, at least from a Philadelphian’s point of view — claim […]

Head to golf heaven—with pink-sand beaches and warm-aloe massages for when you’re not on the course

Even if your mind is on the green, it’s the blues of the water around the island of — that mesmerizing mix of azure and […]

The Comcast SportsNet host is relentlessly positive and extra peppy. Yet somehow hard-boiled Philly sports fans just can’t get enough of him

“I’M GETTING READY TO TAKE MY KID TO A DANCE,” Michael Barkann says when I reach him on his cell phone to set up an […]

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