Longform

Trump’s Cuts Are Hitting Philly Hard. Can the City Hold On?

Why we are uniquely vulnerable to the president’s economic rampage … and how Philadelphia can (maybe) fortify itself for the future.


Guides

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

Q&A

Philly’s Top Cop Talks Plummeting Homicides, Horrible Drivers, and ICE Raids

News

Josh Shapiro Puts Kamala Harris on Blast Over “Blatant Lies”

Latest Stories

Longform

Philadelphia Home: Inside Nancy Levie’s Modern Bucks County Dream Home

Even though it’s getting dark outside—in the farm-dotted, wooden-bridged pocket of Buckingham Township, just outside New Hope, there are no streetlights—I can see the house […]

Longform

The Real Chase Utley

There is much we don’t know about him. Take, for instance, an incident from the fall of 2009. Chase Utley came off the field after […]

News

Video Footage May Have Captured Missing Brown Student, Bryn Mawr Native

Since the mysterious disappearance of Bryn Mawr native and Brown University student Sunil Tripathi two week ago, search efforts from Boston to Philadelphia has been […]

News

Chinks Steaks Changing Name, Because, You Know

Chink’s Steaks, which opened in 1949, was so named because its first owner Samuel Sherman had “almond-shaped” eyes. Now, with the help of a branding […]

News

Will Philly Become “Core Capital” of the World?

No sports fan began 2013 having a better time than Bill Meyers. On January 5th, he watched the Packers whip the Vikings in an NFL […]

News

The Monster in Buzz Bissinger

A week ago last night, I was walking into the Giant supermarket near my house when my cell phone rang. I couldn’t tell who it […]


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

Allen Iverson Returning to Philly…At Least for One Night

AI has accepted the Sixers offer to show up at the Wells Fargo Center for his own bobblehead night, tomorrow evening. Here’s the manic announcement […]

News

Yes! Let the Philly Accent Fade Away!

Historically, Philadelphia has had a bad case of cainophobia. Whether we’re talking about building a highway or bumping up trash day, Philadelphians generally don’t react […]

News

Chink’s Steaks, Memphis Parks Change Names for the Better

Here’s some truth: A rose by any other name probably wouldn’t smell as sweet. Branding matters. Call the beautiful red flower a pissbush or a […]

News

Meet the Philly Women Who Want to Be Priests

A group of females who would like to be Catholic priests demonstrated today, as is their wont on Holy Thursday, in front of the Cathedral Basilica […]

News

Barbara Walters, Matronly Saint of TV News, Retiring at Last

Reports have surfaced that 83-year-oldBarbara Walters is getting her own show on FXX, the new FX spin-off network for 18-34 year olds retiring from broadcast […]

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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.


News

“It’s Always Sunny” to Premiere on a New Channel This Fall

Eager to titillate its younger audience a little more than usual, FX has decided to create a spin-off channel called “FXX.” (Dangerously close to FXXX, […]

News

Found in Adam Lanza’s Home: 1,700 Rounds of Ammunition

In the days after the Newtown massacre in Connecticut, investigators found an astonishing trove of gun-related paraphernalia in shooter Adam Lanza’s home. A very small […]

News

Ed Rendell Under Fire for Controversial Pro-Fracking Op-Ed

Yesterday, Ed Rendell wrote a big pro-fracking op-ed for the new New York Daily News, in an attempt to sway on-the-fence-and-has-presidential-ambitions Andrew Cuomo to approve fracking […]

PIFA My Heart

LGBTQ offerings at this year’s festival.

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