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.


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

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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

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St. Joe’s Sends Out Mass Email Revealing Everyone’s GPA

Transparency is nice and all, but… “Upperclassmen at Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business found out precisely where they stood among their peers when […]

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Myth: Rapists Are Strangers in the Dark

Though the trial against the two Steubenville High School teens charged with raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last August ended with a “guilty” […]

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Make Losing Your NCAA Bracket More Fun

It was going to be my crowning achievement of college. I didn’t go to class all that often during my four years, preferring to spend […]

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School to Students: Stop Using that Damned Axe Body Spray

After a student had a severe allergic reaction to Axe body spray, Freedom High School in Bethlehem has asked all students to stop using the […]

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CNN’s Most Shameful Six Minutes?

The high-profile Steubenville, Ohio, rape case ended last weekend with guilty verdicts for both defendants—leading to one of the more embarrassing segments in the history […]

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I Cannot Forgive George W. Bush for the Iraq War

I cannot forgive George W. Bush. I can’t forgive him for the decision, 10 years ago this week, to invade Iraq—even though that country had […]


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.


One of the Guys

Inside scoop from the Temple web series.

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Nobody Likes Andrew Bynum, Vol. 197: Prep School Coach Edition

Just as the news was breaking that Andrew Bynum would be missing the rest of the Sixers season, the Newark Star-Ledger tried to find the […]

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Camden to Get First Supermarket in 30 Years

For thirty years, Camden, N.J., population 80,000, hasn’t had a supermarket. Soon, that may change. Plans are in place to construct a Shop Rite on […]

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Corbett Highest-Paid Governor in the Country

Governor Tom Corbett, who makes $183,255 a year, is the highest-paid governor in the country. It’s unclear, however, if he’s really making as much as […]

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Tammy Faymous on last night’s Drag Race.

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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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Man Drives Car into Schuylkill in Fatal Plunge

NBC 10 reports: Police say the unidentified driver was going eastbound (towards Center City) on Kelly Drive when he cut right in front of another […]

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Gosnell Assistant: I Killed 10 Infants

Testifying against her former boss Kermit Gosnell (a.k.a. the ‘barbaric’ former abortion doctor) in court today,” a tearful Adrienne Moton, who worked as an untrained […]

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Rocky’s House Can Be Yours, Unless This Rocky Enthusiast Buys it First

Friday it was revealed that Rocky’s southwest Philly rowhome (the one he buys in Rocky II with winnings) was being sold for $139,000. Forget Rocky […]

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The Roy Halladay Diet: Get a Virus, Lose 10 Pounds in 2 Days

Roy Halladay had to be pulled in the first inning of a spring training game against the Orioles Sunday. The culprit: a stomach virus. Or, […]

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