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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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Watch T.O. Do the Weather Forecast

If you were a former football great with a honking big IRS lien, how might you look to pay it off? In Terrell Owens’s case, […]

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Monday Kickstarter: Pride, Cazwell and Putin

Rounding up the weekend’s LGBT headlines.

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Is Brian Sims’s Gay Marriage Bill a Publicity Stunt?

The day after the Supreme Court struck down a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, Philadelphia state Representative Brian Sims and colleague Steve […]

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People Are Still Smoking Weed at the Liberty Bell

The marijuana menace apparently has not yet been eradicated from out fair city. On Sunday, radical group of protestors, united under the “Smoke Down Prohibition” […]

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Enjoy Living in Abject Poverty, Millennials!

This time on “No, really, we have your best interests at heart,” the Senate has gone on summer vacation and left America’s college students to […]

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The Real Reason Obama Went to Africa

As the Obama family’s first official trip to Africa wraps up tomorrow, ignore all the fanfare and try, for a moment, to wrap your head […]


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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Philadelphia, Let’s Secede From Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, it’s time: Let’s secede from Pennsylvania and make our own state. Sound crazy? Maybe. But as we neared the legislature’s budget deadline in Harrisburg […]

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My Electric Kool-Aid Adderall Test

One of the best parts of being a writer is that the job lets you be nosy professionally. If I’m curious what all those new […]

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WATCH: Footage from This Week’s Decision Day Celebration

A live-action peep at the rally.

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Sarah Murnaghan Gets Second Lung Transplant

10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who has cystic fibrosis, received a much-publicized lung transplant on June 12th this year. Soon after the surgery, her mother said today, […]

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Main Line Realtors Accused of Planting Dead Critters on Neighbor’s Driveway

Andrea Straub, an agent at Prudential Fox & Roach, along with her fellow realtor husband Jonathan, has been accused by police of depositing a dead snake […]

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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.


WEEKEND ROUNDUP: The Official SCOTUS-Ruling Dance Party

Slip on those boogie shoes.

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Chesco-Based QVC Presses “Pause” on Paula Deen

Several high-profile companies have already cut ties with the food world’s latest bete noire, Paula Deen. (No pun intended.) West Chester-based home shopping giant QVC, […]

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Drexel Desperately Trying to Make Campus Look More Like Penn

Drexel has tired of its orange-bricked buildings and would now prefer the statelier red that graces Penn’s campus. “You were immediately able to tell when […]

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The Single Dumbest Reaction to the New Yorker’s Gay Ernie and Bert Cover

Here’s this week’s New Yorker cover, which for obvious reasons is generating a fair amount of internet buzz right now. There you have it: Ernie […]

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