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

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Opinion

Where Is the Constitution Center When We Need It?

Jeffrey Rosen is out. Now the institution must decide whether it will remain a quiet, genteel place of scholarship or actually take on the current threats to democracy.

Guides

9 New and Upcoming Books With Philly Connections

Add these new works by local authors to your spring reading list.

Guides

10 Tips to Stress Less and Save More This Tax Season (and Beyond)

Dreading April 15th, and the money you’ll have to part with? Philly experts are here to help.

Opinion

What Market East Needs

The Economy League’s executive director responds to Philly Mag’s roundtable about the struggling corridor.

News

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 2

This month: The semi-obscure, somewhat murky, earliest excursions of Europeans.

Q&A

From Fairmount to the Today Show: The Journey of Sheinelle Jones

The former Good Day Philadelphia personality now co-hosts the fourth hour of the Today show with Jenna Bush Hager — and has a new book out next month.


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

The Most Quintessentially Philadelphia Sports Moments

From The Hit to The Stepover and beyond, a look back at the most unmistakably Philly moments in sports history.

News

The Best of the Rest: The Athletes Who Just Missed Our “Most Philly” List

We couldn’t fit everyone in the top 25, but these folks deserve some recognition, too.

Guides

The Editors’ Cut: What We’re Reading, Watching, Doing, and Liking This Week

Hot recs from the Philly Mag staff

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News

Philadelphia Magazine Nominated for Two 2026 National Magazine Awards

The magazine was recognized for its April 2025 feature on the cheesesteak, as well as in the category of general excellence, by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

News

There Was Only One Choice for Most Philly Athlete of All Time: Allen Iverson

The defiance. The swagger. The resilience. No one embodied Philadelphia more than AI.

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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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Guides

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

Our definitive ranking — let the debates begin.

News

The Philadelphia Flower Show, By the Numbers

We break down the data from this year’s show and shows of the past.

Opinion

How Bobby Clarke and the Broad Street Bullies Became Immortal

The only Flyers teams to win a Stanley Cup defined what Philly grit looked like for a generation.

Opinion

The Philadelphia School District’s Snow Day Madness

A frustrated SDP parent “fixes” the communication sent from the school district to parents about yesterday’s snow day.  

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