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Philly Moments That Made Us Proud in 2025

A year when kids became heroes, sports took the spotlight, and our sandwich finally got its due


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

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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

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How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree in Philadelphia

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The Best Meal Marc Vetri Ever Had

My name is … Marc Vetri. Make sure you put it with a “c.” I am a … chef and a father. Wait. Put “father” […]

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Philadelphia Home: Peggy Brehman’s Renovated Newtown Square Dairy Barn

Renovation: We think it was built about 1850 as a single-story dairy barn. When we first looked at it, it had been improved into living […]

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Off the Cuff: June 2013

I’m beginning to question my own sanity. It seems that whenever a major news story breaks, it immediately becomes layered with what we want to […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Seasonal American Eats at Jersey’s Tavro 13

Tavro 13 is a long way from Philadelphia. You take I-95 to the Commodore Barry Bridge, follow 322 to Kings Highway, and park outside a […]

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The Woman Who Exposed Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Mari Steed’s fingers trembled as she tapped commands on her laptop. The unprecedented apology was about to be streamed online, projected onto a big screen […]

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Gossip Guy: The Life and Times of the Daily News’ Dan Gross

“My man, can we get an escort? I got VIPs,” Big Penny tells the cops in the lanenext to us on Broad Street. Seconds later, […]


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 Restaurant Review: Hit-or-Miss Charm at Goat Hollow

There are honest waiters, there are fatally honest waiters, and then there’s the guy who asked if we wanted dessert at Goat Hollow. “We have […]

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Fishtown’s Favorite Shops

Kraftwork Fishtown | 541 East Girard Avenue The just-comforting-enough fare at this corner resto-bar is a prime example of how the food scene is truly […]

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Philadelphia is Ori Feibush’s World, We Just Live In It

It’s 10 to six on a Saturday night, and Ori Feibush and I are stuck in traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike. “Don’t quote my […]

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Anthony Weiner’s NYC Campaign Logo Features Pittsburgh?

Forever “Disgraced” Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner announced this week that he’s running for Mayor of New York (we’ve been waiting for him to say it for […]

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The Goofiest Strip-Club Assault Weapon Shooting You Will Ever See

I’m a little late to this, but I think I have a professional obligation to post the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkkHmRWkoM Summary: Police say a man was […]

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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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Penn Lecturer Allegedly Flashed His Students

OK. We don’t know who he/she is, or what he/she did. But we do know that police are investigating two alleged incidents that took place […]

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Annoying iPad-Wielding Phillies Fan

A tipster sent Deadspin a picture of a dude sitting obnoxiously behind the Marlins dugout in a Ryan Howard jersey during last night’s game, with […]

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Actually, Tom Corbett Has One Latino Staff Member

Calm down lefty media hyperventilators! After you all jumped down Tom Corbett’s throat for his comment about having no Latino staff members, the Governor’s people […]

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Welcome to Bearlesque

Bears take center stage in new burlesque show.

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