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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.


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

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

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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Gosnell Signs Off on Plea Deal

The lawyer for Kermit Gosnell, who’s already serving a life sentence for the deaths of three babies born alive in his abortion clinic, says his […]

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Boy Missing in Pennypack Creek Presumed Dead

The search for 13-year-old Brandon Boyle, who has been missing since jumping into Pennypack Creek near Winchester Avenue and the Boulevard yesterday afternoon, resumed this […]

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Philadelphia Man on Trial for Drugging Infant

Orlando Rosado, 45, is currently on trial for putting heroin and methadone into his infant son’s bottle during a 3 a.m. feeding in May 2012. […]

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Three Major Local Lottery Wins Still Unclaimed

Apparently only people who are already multimillionaires are winning the lottery in the Philadelphia region this year. How else to explain a $131.5 million Powerball […]

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July 4th Fireworks for 2013

July 5th: See New Hope/Lambertville and Lower Gwynedd, below. July 6th: See Philadelphia/Camden waterfront, Newtown, and Florence Township, below. Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Orchestra Free Neighborhood […]

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Anybody Wanna Buy an Armory? Contact Tom Corbett

If ever you wanted your own super villain hideout, now’s your chance—Pennsylvania’s about to have a dozen armories up for sale. Both houses have unanimously […]


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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Millville Still Loves Its Trouty

Their records are nearly identical, but the Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels look like two teams headed in opposite directions. The Phils headed west […]

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Former Superintendent Paul Vallas Fired in Connecticut

Paul Vallas, the Philadelphia School District’s former superintendent, lost his job as the head of Bridgeport, Conn. schools Friday for what school officials termed a […]

Grindr Goes Gallup

Sex app surveys users on marriage, children and more …

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The School District Is Missing a Lot of Inventory. A Lot.

The problems continue for the Philadelphia School District. Already looking at a doomsday scenario, the district is now missing $196,000 in property across 11 schools—about […]

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So Rowan Now Has Two Medical Schools

A law restructuring New Jersey’s public higher education took effect yesterday, reorganizing the structure of the state’s public universities and officially establishing Rowan University’s school […]

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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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Come Join My Happiness Club

What does it mean to be happy? What does it take? Measuring an abstraction like happiness is difficult, and might make it impossible to determine […]

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RIP William H. Gray III

Former Congressman William H. Gray III, 71, passed away Monday in London, according to his Washington, DC office. A widely influential figure in local and […]

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The Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom

The Civil War’s pivotal battle took place 150 years ago this week. We all know the war was not about freeing the slaves, but had […]

Playdar: The July Playlist

Using music to eschew those summer blues.

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