Guides

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.


Longform

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

Guides

Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

Latest Stories

News

R.I.P. Hip-Hop

For years, the face of the Sixers was Allen Iverson. But, with a revolving door of role players and fringe stars, the second most recognizable […]

News

No Camping at Occupy Philly

As the city works with Occupy Philly protesters on a potential new permit for demonstrations to occur at Thomas Paine Plaza. The proposed agreement would […]

News

Dungeon Teens Placed Outside City

Linda Ann Weston—the accused ringleader in the Tacony Dungeon Case—had eight children living in her home in Philadelphia. Three of those children were teenagers of […]

News

Happy Birthday, Sandy Beach!

Celebrating with a live show

News

LifeStyles Wants Your Designs

Enter a T-shirt contest this week

News

Erasing Religion from Politics

It does harm to the LGBT movement


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.


News

Why Does Everyone Hate DeSean Jackson?

I remember, as a child, watching in amazement when Billy “White Shoes” Johnson reached the end zone. I could have cared less about the Oilers, […]

News

Scenes From the National Dog Show

Until a few days ago, I was a dog-show virgin. Given my unfathomable love for  canines—and my exhaustion from the news coming out of Penn […]

News

Does Michael Nutter Have a New Arch-Enemy?

One of the least heralded but most consequential decisions Philadelphia voters made in this month’s balloting was the selection of City Council president. True, the […]

News

Morning Scoop: Protesters Not Forced

Plus: City loans $2.9M to Inky

A winter wonderland, Harvard-style.

With its snow-packed cobblestones and ivy-wrapped everything, Cambridge might just be the ideal place in which to embrace the winter season: Just pack your peacoat […]

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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.


Reviews

Sometimes it can be tough to make a simple pasta seem
appealing, but Zeppoli makes it easy

In an era when chefs face off on television to see who can make a meal featuring string cheese, jicama and gingersnaps in each of […]

Reviews

At Munish Narula’s newest spot, the kitchen charts a course between India and France

It may take 20 minutes or 20 seconds. It may come out as a gasp of excitement or a groan of discontent. But eventually, every […]

News

Philly is Craziest Sports City

Travel + Leisure has released a list of the country’s most “sports-crazed” cities and Philly tops the list. Now if the Eagles can get above […]

News

Mom Crashes Regis’ Retirement Party

A Bucks County mom—who got her 15 minutes of fame via a stint on Wife Swap a few years back—recently crashed Regis Philbin’s retirement party. […]

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