Longform

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.


News

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

Q&A

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

Longform

Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

Latest Stories

quinta brunson, who just received two emmy nominations for two different shows, standing between two fellow Abbott Elementary cast members
News

Philly Today: Quinta Brunson Scores Emmy Noms for Two Shows

Plus, I think everybody was at Beyoncé but me.

Reviews

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour Is the Spiritual Revival America Needs Right Now

The superstar’s nearly three-hour tour de force couldn’t have arrived at a more urgent time when her Black and queer muses are under attack.

A rendering of the new Rivers Casino hotel in Fishtown
News

Philly Today: Rivers Casino Says It’s Opening a Luxury Fishtown Hotel

Plus, Philly’s public toilets don’t get off to a good start.

Merion Cricket Club, where a Main Line woman claims in a new lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by management
News

Philly Today: Main Line Woman Says She Was Sexually Harassed at Merion Cricket Club

She claims a manager told her “it isn’t harassment if he likes you.”

News

Josh Shapiro’s Social Media Skills Turned the I-95 Rebuild Into an Online Party

Keen on memes and collaborating with up-and-coming influencers, Shapiro is “meeting people where they are,” his press team says.

News

Philly Today: End-Times Flooding, Digging Into Crime Data and an Up-and-Down Phillies Weekend

Plus: We catch up with ex-Taney Dragon Mo’ne Davis, a U.S. soccer hair-raiser, and some elbow news


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

Philly Today: GOP Stymies PSU, Temple; a Mighty Phillies Sweep; and a Wonderful Quote About Philly

Plus: A wonderful quote about Philly and why you might want to reconsider that mutual fund.

Q&A

Q&A: Bucks County Native Richard Kind Talks Tomato Pie and BFF George Clooney

See Richard Kind on Netflix in The Out-Laws, an Adam Sandler production.

A Wawa display at Philadelphia's Fourth of July celebration on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
News

Philly Today: Is It Time for Us to Break Up with Wawa?

Plus, a New Jersey official blames Camden’s crime on “the thugs and criminals and gun-bearing freaks in Philadelphia.”

Ludacris performing in Philadelphia for our Fourth of July festivities
News

Philly Today: The Ludacris July 4th Concert Was Basically Ludacris Karaoke

But it wasn’t our worst July 4th show ever. Plus, Bradley Cooper runs wild.

country musician kane brown, who is seeking a restraining order against bootleggers who would sell merch outside of his show at the Mann Center this weekend
News

Philly Today: Kane Brown Seeks Restraining Order for Mann Concert

Plus, when will Bart Blatstein’s big AC waterpark open?

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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.


Longform

Leslie Richards’s Bold Vision for a Better SEPTA

This is about more than the future of a transit agency — it’s a fight for the very soul of the region.

News

The Sixers’ Short, Strange James Harden Era Is Ending

Plus: More Art Museum mayhem, the New York Times finds Philly doubly noteworthy, a giant troll in South Jersey, and a (finally!) corralled cow.

the gate to Avram Hornik's Rittenhouse Square pop-up bar Walnut Garden, which the city shut down on Wednesday for numerous violations
News

Philly Today: City Shuts Down Avram Hornik’s Rittenhouse Pop-Up Bar

Plus, the return of the dreaded Canadian smoke.

Opinion

I-95 Rebuild Was Local Politics at Its Best

Now let’s bring that energy to some of the city’s other big, pressing issues.

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