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Marc Summers Explains Why Reality TV Sucks

The comedian made famous by Double Dare talks marriage, Marc Vetri, and his new off-Broadway show.


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Is This the John Fetterman Pennsylvania Elected?

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Are These Taylor Swift Lyrics About Jason Kelce?

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The Great Name Awakening: Inside the Audacious, Lucrative World of Baby Naming

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Failed Fox Pundit Dick Morris Replacing Michael Smerconish

Dick Morris predicted Romney would win in a “landslide,” winning 325 electoral votes. (He won 206.) He was named “Worst Pundit of 2012” by PunditTracker, […]

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Penn State Cuts Off Adidas over Sweatshop Complaint

Penn State President Rodney Erickson has decided to suspend the school’s relationship with Adidas, to reprimand the apparel company for not paying Indonesian workers after […]

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Pat Toomey Blames “The Left” for the Recession

You remember when Pat Toomey had dinner with the president the other night at the White House? That was nice, wasn’t it? All that olive […]

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Singing Mormons in the Gayborhood?!

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Return of the Poop Deck: Another Cruise Ship Mess in the Caribbean

Why do people insist on taking cruises? In 2011, the ship sank in Italy. In February, the ship stank in the Gulf of Mexico. And […]

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14 Best College Commencement Speakers for 2013

I smiled and clapped quietly to myself when Penn announced its 2013 commencement speaker a couple days ago: Vice President Joe Biden. Joe Biden! What […]


Best of Philly 2023: City Life

Best of Philly 2023: City Life

An irresistible gossipmonger, numerous near-champions, and a roadway rebuild for the ages

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Back in the day, Philly, like a lot of cities, banked on a revival of its downtown to spark new life. The plan worked fine — for Center City. But now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?


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Penn Staters: Tweet Your Campus Sins Using “PSU Confesses”

Penn State alumni can be a nostalgic bunch, celebrating their alma mater by tailgating at football games, sharing stories at reunions, and even storming trustee […]

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Nutter’s New Property Tax Revealed

The city may have increased or decreased the value of your home (as you found out recently by mail, per its new AVI assessments) but […]

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“Time Bank” Is Coming: Will Cook for House Cleaning!

  After falling into the habit of spending many consecutive hours in my kitchen on Sundays, cooking one large meal, creating a different soup each […]

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Watch Jrue Holiday Dunk on LeBron

The Sixers came tantalizingly close last night to disrupting the Miami Heat’s annoying remarkable 20-game win streak, flailing only in the last minute of play. […]

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US News & World Report Rankings: How Philly Grad Schools Performed

While many may think US News & World Report’s rankings are flawed (see a well-respected alternative ranking here), it’s impossible not to check up on […]

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How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.

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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22 Great Pickup Lines to Use at PHL

  Philadelphia Airport was recently named one of the top five best places in the country for hooking up by MeetAtTheAirport.com. Why PHL? According to […]

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New York Rampage Shooter Killed by Police

AP: Wednesday, “a 64-year-old loner sauntered into a barbershop in upstate New York, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire […]

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SEPTA Fare Hikes Announced

Starting July 1, as SEPTA’s been warning us, fare hikes will increase. Cash payments for city transit will go from really convenient $2 to not […]

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Why Do Popes Choose New Names?

What was wrong with Jorge? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio not only became Pope today, he became Francis I, likely after St. Francis of Assisi, the […]

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