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How Far Did Rocky Go in His Training Run in Rocky II?

Rocky wasn’t just a boxer. He was a marathoner.


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Allan Domb: “Make Philly Fun Again”

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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New Documentary Boys to Fame Tells the Most Tender Eagles Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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Instead of Making Domestic Abuse PSAs, Chris Brown Will Model Clothes

Hope you’re used to Chris Brown’s awful new(ish) neck tattoo–you’re probably going to see it a lot more. The noted hip-hop artist and domestic abuse […]

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$12 Million Steakhouse Union Trust Closes

If you have a reservation for dinner tonight at Chestnut Street steakhouse Union Trust, you might want to start making other plans. A sign on […]

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Delco T-Mobile Employee Gets Stabby With A Customer

In what will undoubtedly be the most Delco news of the day, a T-Mobile store employee in Upper Darby stabbed a customer in the stomach […]

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5-Hour Energy Might Literally Kill You

If you’re tired right now, you’d better stick with a cup of coffee, as it turns out those wonderful little energy shots that some of […]

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AccuWeather Marks 50 Years of Telling You What’s Going on Outside

Today, AccuWeather officially turns old. The storm-tracking behemoth is celebrating 50 years of predicting the weather (or missing the mark completely?) since Philly native and […]

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Philly Gas Works Hits the Auction Block

Taking a page out of the Monopoly playbook, the Nutter Administration has settled on selling off some utilities to help keep the city afloat–specifically, the […]


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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Some LBI Beachfront Property Owners Really, Really Hate Dunes

Beachfront property owners along one tract of land on Jersey’s Long Beach Island finally may be realizing that sand dunes actually do serve a purpose, […]

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Entitled Kid Stops Traffic on PA Turnpike For His Own Birth

Damn kids think they can just do whatever they want. Leaving lights on, staying up til all hours, initiating the birth process on the Pennsylvania […]

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Collingswood Grocery Store Controversy!

Collingswood’s current controversy is the National Market, a space that is not really functioning as a market these days. For years now, all I’ve known […]

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Study: People Are Getting Measurably Dumber

The other day, during one of my too-frequent tumbles down the rabbit hole of cyberspace, I came across an article discussing a paper published in […]

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Student-Wise, Philly’s Charter Schools Are Booming

As the city’s public education system continues to crumble, a new report indicates that Philly’s charter schools are going strong. Roughly 23 percent of the […]

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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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Comcast Among Most Gay-Friendly Workplaces

Find out who else ranked

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Twinkies Might Go Extinct By the End of the Week

You hear that? It’s the collective scream of tens of thousands of stoners and fat guys screaming out in abject terror at the possible liquidation […]

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Chris Freind: Republicans Blame Everyone But Themselves

“Define irony: Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.” So said […]

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Guy Fieri Exposes Liberal Media Agenda Against Mediocre Food

Since having his new NYC restaurant, Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar, absolutely destroyed by the New York Times‘ Peter Wells, Guy Fieri has not […]

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