News

Major Schuylkill River Trail Extension Will Be Ready By Year’s End

The first link in the chain connecting the Schuylkill River Trail to Bartram’s Garden is a cable-stayed bridge in Grays Ferry that will open around the end of spring.


Longform

“I Hope Your Team Sucks and Loses”: Inside the Head of John Kruk

Long Bright River writer Liz Moore, who sees her book become a Peacock series in March / Photograph by Stevie Chris
Q&A

Meet the South Philly Author Behind the New TV Show Long Bright River

Longform

Dan Rhoton’s Big, Audacious Plan to End Poverty

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News

A Very Different Inauguration Day Party Happened In South Philly On Monday

It’s fair to say that the new president was not the object of celebration.

News

Philly Today: South Philly Man Accused of Selling Fake Jason Kelce Memorabilia

Sixty felony counts! Ouch. Plus, Fadó responds to the big mess surrounding it.

6 ABC meteorologist Cecily Tynan and her new har
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Philly Today: Cecily Tynan Doesn’t Care If You Don’t Like Her Gorgeous New Hairdo

Plus, major drama at Center City’s Fadó Irish Pub.

Opinion

A Delco Dispatch From the Trump Inauguration in D.C.

Sharpshooting Ridley Park resident Michelle Mattus went to the inaugural events so we didn’t have to.

News

Philly Today: ICE Raid Rumors Swirl in Philly’s Migrant Community

Plus: Fetterman the Republican? And Reader Mail, a.k.a. Hate Mail.

News

CBS News Correspondent Robert Costa Talks “Zen Trump” and the Eagles

From editing Pennsbury High’s newspaper to interviewing presidents, Robert Costa has traveled a long road to success.


Best of Philly 2024: City Life

Best of Philly 2024: City Life

A squad of teenage robotics champs, a 100-year-old jazz trailblazer, a deeply laughable mascot, and a Flyer to be truly proud of

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?


News

Philly Today: Bradley Cooper’s Eagles Game Appearance Sparks Controversy

Plus, how to get tickets to this Sunday’s NFC Championship game at the Linc.

News

Justice Department: Trump Wanted to Throw Out 300,000 Philly Votes in 2020

The report states that “the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction” against Trump, but it’s all moot.

News

Internet Sleuths Hunt Down Eagles Fan Who Went Viral for Calling Packers Fan the C-Word

And now his employer is investigating the situation.

News

Details About 76ers and Comcast’s Partnership to Build a New South Philly Arena

After years of posturing, planning, and protests, the Sixers are staying in South Philly after all.

Guides

19 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Library

Cook. Borrow a guitar. Get married. The choice is yours.

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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.


Q&A

Inside the Bookish World of One Local Librarian

Plus: Local authors share their library loves.

News

Philly Today: Controversial “Body Worlds” Exhibit Returning to Franklin Institute

Plus, a Pennsylvania State Trooper shows us how not to download porn.

News

Philly Today: Girls’ High Principal Lisa Mesi Demoted for Being White, Lawsuit Alleges

She says it happened following a, well, messy 2023 graduation ceremony.

Fox 29's Steve Keeley reporting on crime in Philadelphia, where homicides and shootings are actually down
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Philly Today: The Good News About Philadelphia That Steve Keeley Won’t Tell You

Plus, a wee reminder not to walk out onto a body of “frozen” water.

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