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Data Center Opponents Stage Halloween Protest at City Hall

’Tis the season for Jeff Bezos masks and angry pumpkins.


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Former UArts Building Gets a Second Act

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Fight at the Museum: Inside the Collapse of the Academy of Natural Sciences

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Pat Croce’s New Book Is All About Spirituality

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Meet Shamus Moriarty

Sweetening the menu at Rex 1516

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Channing Tatum Replaces Bradley Cooper as “Sexiest Man Alive”; Cooper Now Merely Sexiest in Pennsylvania

People has named its Sexiest Man Alive for 2012, and the winner is … Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum? That’s sexy? Oh, sure, he’s got muscles […]

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New Movie Defending Joe Paterno Is Contemptible

A big reason last week’s presidential election went the way it did, many have pointed out in the days since, was because one side found […]

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FBI Report: John Bolaris “Shit Himself”

The last time we heard from meteorologist John Bolaris, he was proposing to his girlfriend Erica Smitheman on the Howard Stern Show during Hurricane Sandy. […]

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New Robotic Convenience Stores Are Philadelphia’s Last Step Before the Revolution

Signaling an important final step towards creating the overfed, underworked dystopia so memorably depicted in Wall-E, Shop 24 today is opening up two new “robotic […]

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Why In The World Was Joe Biden on Carmen Sandiego?

This 1993 video re-emerged to viral fame this week: Biden’s obviously changed in the last 20 years. His hair is grayer—and, uh, his hairline somehow […]


Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.


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Morning Scoop: Jill Kelley Liked the Palm in Philly

Jill Kelley Liked the Palm in Philly. Also, Changed Her Mind Too Late. At some point between asking an FBI friend to look into “cyberstalking” […]

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What Will Philadelphia Look Like in 2020? Here’s a Guess.

For more than two decades, Paul Levy has presided over the Center City District, a private-sector-sponsored organization that has tried to keep Center City “clean, […]

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Let Texas Secede!

For years and years, Texas has tried to lure tourists from the rest of the United States by proclaiming itself to be a “whole other […]

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Movember Madness

Grow a beard for men’s health

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Get Your Madonna Goods

This is some serious memorabilia

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.


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Let’s All Take Five Seconds and Come Up With Better Casino Names Than These Guys Did

Nothing evokes the jet-set glamour of Monte Carlo days and Casablanca nights like a chic casino moniker. SugarHouse missed that mark by a mile, but […]

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Blame Bradley Cooper’s Uncle for De Niro’s Philly Accent

Here’s Silver Linings Playbook star Bradley Cooper on Letterman last night, explaining how his HVAC-repairing Uncle Ernie came to give elocution lessons to Robert De Niro:  

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Hit-and-Run Assistant D.A. Allegedly Had 8 Pints of Guinness

Guinness makes you strong, but eight pints of it apparently makes you strongly stupid. A Delaware County prosecutor this morning alleged in court that former […]

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Philly Mag Almost Got Jerry Blavat Whacked

We didn’t mean it, Geator — honest! During alleged mob boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi’s trial on federal racketeering charges yesterday, former mobster Louis “Bent Finger […]

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