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

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Poll: Corbett’s PSU Lawsuit More Popular Than Corbett

If Tom Corbett’s bizarre flip-floppin’ lawsuit against the NCAA (for sanctions he once agreed with) was politically motivated, it wasn’t the worst idea in the […]

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Andy Reid Addresses Nation’s 31st-Largest Media Market

Andy Reid addressed reporters today in Kansas City in what should be the start of a long, fruitless relationship with the press for frustrated KC […]

THE MEGGINGS DEBATE

Would you be caught dead in them?

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Liquor Stores Trying to Trick You into Buying Their Weird Brands

You know what sounds really unappealing? Liquor and wine produced by the state of Pennsylvania. Maybe that’s why the state has been sneaking its “in-house” […]

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CHART: Drunk Driving Not Really a Thing in Philly

According to one mapmaker, Philly and New York are the two major U.S. cities that have incurred the fewest drunk driving incidents and fatal car […]

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The Story of the Eagles Season, in Two Charts

When the Eagles beat the Super Bowl champion New York Giants this fall to move to 3-1, it looked like the Vick experiment was working […]


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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Mummers Finally Apologize…Not for Racism

Every year the Mummers do stuff that seems really racist to some and ohwateva innocuous to others. But this year, the outcry was fiercer than […]

MATT DALLAS IS GAY

Say hello to his fiance.

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Cory Booker Pillow Talks Frank Lautenberg, Gives Him “Space”

Cory Booker’s new strategy to convince the 88 year-old Lautenberg to give up his senate seat before Cory Booker runs for it: pre-break-up pillow talk. […]

VALANNI KICKS OFF MOVIE MONDAYS

And their first film is a doozy.

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Former Widener Dean Accused of Sexual Abuse in ’80s

For a period of three years in the late 1980s, a former dean at Widener University repeatedly abused a teenage boy by performing oral sex on […]

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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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An Adrian Mural for South Philly?

Why is there no Adrian mural in Philadelphia? Everybody from McNabb to Frank Rizzo to these strange M.C. Escher nurses has got one. Is she […]

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Corbett Changes Mind on Gun Shows in Span of 6 Hours

Telling a caller that no one had proposed the idea to him before, Gov. Tom Corbett said in a Friday radio appearance that he would […]

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MONDAY KICKSTARTER

10 gay headlines you may have missed.

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Rendell Loves Him, Gay Republicans Hate Him: Obama’s Defense Pick

It looks like Obama’s new Secretary of Defense pick, the former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, is going to face a tough confirmation fight. First, […]

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