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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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Police “Absolutely” Sure Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse Fire Is “Union Issue”

I’m a few days late to this, but it’s worth reporting. Police say they believe the burned site of the proposed Chestnut Hill Friends meetinghouse […]

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Graham Spanier Not Allowed to Attend Wedding in Slovakia

Ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier has been defiantly denying Sandusky-related accusations against him and his university for months now, so it wasn’t exactly surprising when he […]

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Hillary Clinton, “Faking It,” & the Trouble With Docs in the Media

After Hillary Clinton was hospitalized over the weekend due to a blood clot near her brain, following her concussion last month, the Daily Beast ran […]

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Home News: Philly Mag Buys Social Media Firm

At least in journalism, the times, they are a-changin’. Metrocorp, the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston magazines, has acquired a majority stake in Slice […]

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Andy Reid Interviewing for Arizona Cardinals Job

The departed Eagles coach, who at least one source has said is “95 percent” certain to score the Cards’ job, will meet with the team […]

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Is This Mummers Routine Racist?

I was struggling to explain the Mummers to a friend of mine from out of town the other day, when it hit me. “Lots of […]


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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The Fiscal Cliff Means We Need a New Constitution

There was a time in U.S. history when the national government was broke and impotent, unable to pay the country’s debts or to raise the […]

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House GOP to Shore: Drop Dead

Hurricane Sandy’s victims will have to wait just a little bit longer (or forever) for disaster relief, for no apparent reason. After the fiscal cliff […]

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City Hall Aims to Punish Loyal Philly Homeowners

2013, big deal. Anything to look forward to? I don’t think so. In fact, I think the whole world is going to hell in a […]

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Corbett to Sue NCAA Over Penn State Sanctions

Gov. Corbett will announce today that the state is suing the NCAA for the various sanctions it levied on PSU over the Sandusky scandal, including […]

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PA Delegation Plays Nice as Fiscal Cliff is (Semi) Averted

A day after we careened over the looming cliff (what, you didn’t feel it?), the frisky and mischievous House of Representatives finally approved the Senate […]

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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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Buzz Bissinger Leaves 1210 AM

Less than six months after launching a new career in talk radio with an afternoon-drive show on 1210 AM WPHT in Philadelphia, outspoken Friday Night […]

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