Guides

Celebrating the Most Talented Curtis Institute of Music Graduates

Plus, a look at the prestigious Rittenhouse school’s rising stars, including a 14-year-old who insists on remaining mononymous.


Longform

Paul Offit vs. RFK Jr. Is the Battle of Our Times

Guides

Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

Latest Stories

News

Freaked Out By Gender-Neutral Bathrooms in LGBT Bill?

Last Thursday, a City Council committee approved Councilman Jim Kenney’s LGBT equality bill, which offers spousal partnership benefits to non-married life partners—hospital visits, “next of […]

PromTrash Desperate

The Dumpsta Players look for a prom queen.

News

Student Brings Loaded .38 To Fels High School

KYW Newsradio reports that a student brought a .38 handgun to Fels High School in Northeast Philadelphia. The student was taken into custody. “According to […]

News

Review: Dick Morris’ Philly Talk Radio Debut

Local radio station WPHT, for mysterious reasons, has handed its afternoon drive-time radio show over to a man who’s never hosted a radio show, has […]

News

Rosenbach, Free Library Are Merging

NewsWorks reports that the Rosenbach Museum—probably best known as, but not limited to, the repository for the works of the late artist and author Maurice […]

News

Believe It Or Not, “NJweedman” Has Been Arrested Again

Watch: The video was uploaded Tuesday with this description: “Marijuana activist Ed ‘NJWeedman’ Forchion was arrested in Evesham and charged with possession for have two […]


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.


News

Thatcher and Reagan Made the 1980s a Remarkable Decade

There is a fascinating book by Irving Stone entitled, They Also Ran, the story of men defeated for the presidency. Stone, an historian, also analyzes […]

News

Boston Deserves More Than a Moment of Silence

Sometimes, I wish we could all just shut up for a little bit. It is one of life’s great ironies that the events that demand […]

News

News from Boston

Gay hero featured on Sports Illustrated cover.

News

Boston Explosions: The Latest News [Updated]

We’ll be trying to keep up with the latest headlines from Boston throughout the day today, obviously. Going forward, the latest news will be at […]

News

Here Is Sports Illustrated’s Boston Marathon Cover

This will probably be the iconic image from the attack—some of the others being too horrible to want to spread widely into America’s consciousness:

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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.


News

Not So Dirty Jersey

The state’s close to marriage equality.

News

Bradley Cooper Lives With His Mom

Since every other post today is literally about death and taxes, let’s take a break and check in with Philly homebody and one-time Sexiest Man […]

News

More Hearings Planned For Proposed Philly Casino

6ABC reports the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has added a another day of public hearings as it considers which of a half-dozen proposals it might […]

News

City Hall Extends Online Tax Filing Deadline

Good news! Remember how on Sunday, the day before taxes were due, City Hall took down the website that let people pay their city taxes […]

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