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50 Years of Best of Philly: City Life

In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Best of Philly this August, we’re taking a monthly look back. This month: City Life!


Guides

The Philadelphian’s Guide to Adopting, Pampering and Traveling With Your Pet

Opinion

I Don’t Know Who Anybody Is Anymore. And I Don’t Care

Longform

The Great Name Awakening: Inside the Audacious, Lucrative World of Baby Naming

Latest Stories

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Cake Shop Says No to Gay Couple

Owner’s against gay marriage

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NCAA Fines PSU $60M, Vacates Wins from 1998-2011

NCAA President Mark Emmert announced Monday, during a 9 a.m. press conference, that Penn State University would be fined $60 million, with the funds to […]

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Add a Gas Leak and a Sinkhole to South Philly’s Problems

How do you make a major water main break that floods city streets, forces the evacuation of at least three city blocks, an even larger […]

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James Holmes: Face of the Constitution?

Here’s the bottom line: The Second Amendment is a Constitutional guarantee of the right of Americans to kill and injure each other. So maybe Colorado […]

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Stop the NRA From Ruining Our Nation

Another day, another dozen or so dead. A guy on his birthday. Men protecting their girlfriends. A young woman who wanted to be a journalist. […]

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Morning Scoop: Water Main Break Floods South Philly, Forces Evacuations

South Philly Floods. A water main break near 21st and Bainbridge flooded streets in South Philly and forced the evacuation of three to four blocks […]


Best of Philly 2023: City Life

Best of Philly 2023: City Life

An irresistible gossipmonger, numerous near-champions, and a roadway rebuild for the ages

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Back in the day, Philly, like a lot of cities, banked on a revival of its downtown to spark new life. The plan worked fine — for Center City. But now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?


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Banning Guns Won’t Stop Evil

As we see the pictures of the dead, read the stories of the wounded, hear interviews with those who escaped unharmed, and watch the video […]

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A Man’s Guide to Miscarriage

The first miscarriage occurred in December, shortly before my wife’s birthday. The second miscarriage happened in May 2011, at the start of Memorial Day weekend, […]

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Let’s Talk About How Ugly the Barnes Is

The Barnes Foundation used to be unique: a suis generis collection in a genus loci space (one of a kind in a place all its […]

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Celeb Scoop: You Definitely Don’t Want to Watch This Video of Katy Perry Rap Will Smith’s “Miami”

Katy Perry’s Just Like Us. Even fancy pop stars sometimes suck at karaoke night. He’s Perry rapping Will Smith’s “Miami.” [Huffington Post] Miley Is Everywhere. […]

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PSU Board Member Denies That Board of Trustees Voted to Take Down the Paterno Statue

Multiple reporters have said that Penn State plans to remove the Joe Paterno statue that stands outside of the university’s Beaver Stadium. Former ESPN reporter […]

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How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.

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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Weekend Roundup

LGBT guide to the city and shore

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Troy Vincent to Be Inducted to Eagles Hall of Fame

The Eagles have announced that former Pro Bowl cornerback Troy Vincent will be inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame next week. Vincent played 118 […]

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Olympic Doping With Digital Drugs

Forget Olympic doping with pills and syringes, the future of performance enhancement might just lie in sound—that is, if you put any stock into the […]

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U.S. Military: OK to Wear Uniforms to Pride

It’s a first for openly gay personnel

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