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To Stave Off Gentrification, Kensington Becomes Its Own Landlord

How one special sliver of the city is redefining what smart neighborhood development can look like in Philadelphia … and far beyond.


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New Documentary Boys to Fame Tells the Most Tender Eagles Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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The Man at the Forefront of the Battle Over Philly’s Slavery Memorial Tells All

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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Hello, Misterbnb

Your 2013 travel plans just got gayer.

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Chester and Philadelphia Counties Rank Worst and First in Big PA Health Study

Sometimes you’ll come across a ranking so wrong or arbitrary or subjective, it’ll turn you off lists forever. But don’t let ranking fatigue bring you down! The […]

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Teacher at Pottstown’s Hill School Fired after Creepy Behavior on School Trip

Ah, high school spring-break trips abroad. The only thing that could make life more unpleasant for a bored, hormonal pack of bratty teenage tourists in […]

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Federal Donuts, New Beers, Coming to Citizens Bank Park

Foobooz moseyed on down to Citizens Bank Ballpark to snap some glamor shots of the new concession options available to you all in this upcoming […]

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Local Queen Gets Her Own Day

March 15 is officially Brittany Lynn Day

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Seth Williams Was Following Pornographic Twitter Accounts

The Daily News, in an investigation almost as strange as the social media habits it revealed, found that District Attorney Seth Williams had until recently […]


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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Stop Reading Headlines, Start Reading Stories

It amazes me how frequently, in our new media Twitterverse, a perfectly obvious fact becomes controversial. A headline might read, “Beer bottles can be recycled!” […]

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2 Philly Restaurants on List of Yelp’s Most Popular in U.S.

Yelp has put together a list of its 100 top-rated restaurants, categorized by “more expensive” or “less expensive,” for the U.S. and the whole wide […]

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Eating Out

Where to dine beyond 13th Street.

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What’s So Special About Israel?

  There are few policy positions in Washington that enjoy such broad-based consensus across the partisan spectrum as the belief in America’s unmitigated commitment to […]

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Is Coach in Steubenville Rape Case Another Joe Paterno?

The Atlantic Wire’s Alexander Abad-Santos thinks so, pointing out a trail of text messages that suggest football coach Reno Saccoccia covered up the rape 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.


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St. Joe’s Sends Out Mass Email Revealing Everyone’s GPA

Transparency is nice and all, but… “Upperclassmen at Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business found out precisely where they stood among their peers when […]

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Myth: Rapists Are Strangers in the Dark

Though the trial against the two Steubenville High School teens charged with raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last August ended with a “guilty” […]

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Make Losing Your NCAA Bracket More Fun

It was going to be my crowning achievement of college. I didn’t go to class all that often during my four years, preferring to spend […]

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School to Students: Stop Using that Damned Axe Body Spray

After a student had a severe allergic reaction to Axe body spray, Freedom High School in Bethlehem has asked all students to stop using the […]

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