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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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How To Embarrass a Penn Student for Just $59

Are you an incoming University of Pennsylvania freshman? Here’s a limited-time offer from the Daily Pennsylvanian that you should make sure your parents never, ever see. […]

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It Wasn’t You, Philly. It Was Me.

Philadelphia, it wasn’t you. It was me. Philly Post writer Dan McQuade recently took issue with a column I wrote for the New York Post […]

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Philly Archbishop Warns of Creeping “Pagan” Scourge

Religious leaders and faith-centric political figures are constantly warning us about crises that the rest of us may or may not consider actual crises: Homosexuality, […]

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Is Cape May Really the Most Popular Shore Town?

Rental real estate listing site FlipKey.com has just published infographics for 25 common vacation destinations, and the Jersey Shore is one of them. It’s a […]

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Woman Dies After Being Struck By SEPTA Train in Center City

Philly.com reports: “A woman was killed by a SEPTA train at the 15th Street stop on the Market-Frankford Line last night, a SEPTA spokesman said. […]

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Comic Doogie Horner Abandoning Philly for New York

30-something Philly comedian Doogie Horner, once named Philly’s “Phunniest” man, is decamping for New York. (Maybe if we didn’t insist on putting a friggin PH […]


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.


Q&A

GIRL TALK: Shooting the Breeze with Gay Rapper Cazwell

All aboard the ice cream truck.

News

Your Rusty Unused Bike Is About to Get Eaten By the City

You know the type. The rusted BMX bike that’s been chained to the rack outside your go-to bar for like, two years. Well, starting Monday, […]

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GOP Rep Silences Brian Sims for Defying “God’s Law”

After the Supreme Court ruled DOMA unconstitutional Wednesday, gay representative Brian Sims (D, Philly) sought to make comments on the House floor in the State […]

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One of Darren Daulton’s Two Brain Tumors Inoperable

Yesterday we told you Darren Daulton had two brain tumors. Now we’re learning that one of them is inoperable. He’ll be having surgery on the […]

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Sixers Trade Best Player for Center With Bad Knees…Again

Somewhere deep in the Philadelphia 76ers bylaws, there exists a little known provision that stipulates the team must trade its best player every single season […]

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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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There’s Another Letter the D.A. Doesn’t Want You to See

After I published excerpts from this anonymous anti-Seth Williams letter that was sent to employees of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, I found out about […]

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Did Football Drive Aaron Hernandez to Murder?

Here’s a question that nobody’s going to like, but that we should probably try to get answered at some point: Did football drive Aaron Hernandez […]

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Philadelphia Home: The New Modern Family Home in Chestnut Hill

From the outside, the house looked lovely—a grand stone facade, a carriage house with ivy snaking up its walls, a spacious back terrace featuring a […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: the Deliciously Eclectic Cheu Noodle Bar

Some restaurants are just what they seem, no more and no less. They send out fajitas and margarita pitchers with mariachi bands, or 24-ounce porterhouses […]

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