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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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Morning Scoop: Temple Appoints Task Force in Wake of PSU Scandal

Temple to Use PSU Scandal as a Learning Experience. Acting Temple president Richard Englert has announced that the university has appointed a task force to […]

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Why Would a Wealthy Person Vote Democrat?

One of the more unseemly arguments in American political discourse has begun to pop up all the time in the current election campaign. It’s the […]

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Someday You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Viagra, Xanax at Home

Often, technology is a wonderful thing, bringing us information, making us safer, and providing endless amusement. The inventions we create serve as our most lasting […]

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Mayor Nutter’s Policy Gives City Hall to the People

When he wasn’t busy founding Philadelphia, William Penn said some pretty smart things, such as, “governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them.” […]

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VIDEO: Daryl Hall and Chiddy Bang Collaborate in, Basically, the Most Philly Video Ever

How much more Philly can you get than Chiddy Bang discussing their favorite curse words at Daryl Hall’s house? Drexel’s hip-hop duo was recently featured […]

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Mitt Romney’s Tucked Safely in His Penthouse

Much has been made of Barack Obama’s comments at a June 8th White House press conference, during which he said, “the private sector is doing […]


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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Housing Market Got a Bump in June

It seems like everyone has been taking hammers to piggy banks because the housing market in the eight-county Philadelphia region was up more than 11 […]

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Spurned Lax Coach Lies to Archdiocese, Says His Replacement Was Sexually Assaulting Players

Tim Udinski wasn’t thrilled when he was fired from his gig as the head boy’s lacrosse coach at Landsdale Catholic High School. Upset with the […]

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Michelle Obama Comes to Philly to Remind You That Your Kids Shouldn’t Be Fat

FLOTUS will be in town to make an announcement with Mayor Nutter on Wednesday. The announcement—scheduled for just before noon at the Lenfest Police Athletic […]

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Celeb Scoop: Video of Louis C.K. Explaining the Daniel Tosh Controversy

Louis C.K. Explains Tosh Controversy. The greatest comedian on the planet was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. He explained that he […]

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DOMA Challenged by 83-Year-Old Widow

Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer’s love story

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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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Someone Commissioned a Banner Plane to Threaten Penn State’s Joe Paterno Statue

A plane was reportedly flying over State College today with a banner trailing it. The banner reportedly read “Take the statue down or we will.” […]

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4 Sandusky Questions Tom Corbett Needs to Answer Now

For the record, no media commentator in Pennsylvania supported Tom Corbett’s ideas—from increased Marcellus Shale drilling to school choice to liquor privatization—more than I did […]

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Tony Luke Jr. Will Give You 30 Free Cheesesteaks if You Help Him Find a Cutout of Tony Luke Jr.

On July 9th, three men reportedly stole a life-size cutout of Tony Luke Jr. from his cheesesteak shop in South Philly. He wants it back […]

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TLA’s Xmas in July

Cool off with new LGBT flicks

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