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Celebrating the Most Talented Curtis Institute of Music Graduates

Plus, a look at the prestigious Rittenhouse school’s rising stars, including a 14-year-old who insists on remaining mononymous.


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

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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

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Weekend Roundup

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

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Dating a Friend’s Ex?

What to ask yourself

News

Snow Drinking

Blizzards can’t close Philly bars

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Amadeus at the Walnut

Not all the right notes

Morning Scoop

Making Nixon proud


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.


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Women and Football

Shut up. Watch the game

Forget the gyrating pelvis and the Hustle and crowd-surfing and leaving room for the Holy Ghost. Suburban Philly kids today are getting way more physical at school dances — and administrators can’t stop them

AT EXACTLY 7:30 P.M., the lights went down in the Parish Life Center of St. Kevin School in Springfield, and the music started. After a […]

He’s a decorated war hero, an accomplished lawyer and an all-around good guy. So what’s David Urban doing in a racket like lobbying?

DAVID URBAN has one goal today: Run out the clock. It shouldn’t be hard. The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress is already awash in […]

The amiable, Emmy-award-winning Fox 29 meteorologist—and longtime man-about-town—takes a minute from his busiest season to come clean about his fear of commitment, his man-love for Howard Stern, and the Philly restaurant even he can’t get into

My full name is … John Edward Bolaris. I am a … Greek-American. I was born in … Long Island, New York. I’ve lived in […]

Issues at the Philadelphia airport will never truly be resolved.

The City of Philadelphia has spent more than half a century trying to figure out how to run the airport, and I’m hard-pressed to come […]

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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.


Is he a serial sexual harasser and tyrannical boss, as some of his former employees allege? Or is he the most effective public-housing leader in the history of Philadelphia, as he and his defenders contend? Or could Carl Greene, somehow, be both?

CARL GREENE CAN REALLY TALK. He’s been gone from Philadelphia for a few months now, but on this day a couple of weeks before Christmas, […]

This time of year, some fashion rules are meant to be broken

It’s not that I don’t know that they’re ugly and over. It’s that I don’t care. I was part of the craze several years back, […]

Looks we’ve seen and liked (or not so much)

A few months ago, a buyer for a fancy local women’s department told me Philadelphians don’t wear capes. I’m not sure where she got her […]

Everything woman

Page through the chic black Moleskine notebook of civil rights attorney and bakery co-founder Norrinda Brown Hayat, and you’ll find lists snaking down its pages. […]

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