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Ben Kirshner’s Plan to Transform How Pennsylvania Does Business

Pennsylvania is a notoriously tough place to start or run a business. Can the first guy to sell coffee on the internet fix that? The governor sure thinks so.


Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks and Grace Kelly all made memorable moments in Philadelphia Oscars history (photos via Getty Images)
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Great (and Not So Great) Moments in Philly Oscars History

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Inside Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Wild Ride From Mount Airy to the Oscars

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Jason Kelce Retires After 13 Seasons

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We Need to Stop Procreating So Much

Scattered throughout southern Mexico and the central American nations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras are the remnants of one of the most powerful […]

My Son Zachary

FOR MONTHS NOW—years, really—I have thought about writing this story. Over and over, I played the words in my mind: what I would say, how […]

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Daily News Circulation Down 17 Percent From Last Year

Circulation numbers for the six months leading up to the sale of Philadelphia Media Network show a 17.1 percent drop for the Daily News compared […]

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Somehow Mr. Met Is More Famous Than the Phanatic

The Davie Brown Index measures public perception of celebrities and public figures and how they influence certain brands. The latest DBI survey on sports mascots […]

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Bryzgalov Says If Not a Goalie, He Would Have Been an Astronaut

Today, Bryz was interacting with some reporters at the Flyers practice facility in Voorhees, New Jersey when he told them that if he hadn’t become […]

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PHL Ranked Third Worst Airport in America

A new Travel + Leisure listicle has ranked Philadelphia International Airport as the third worst of America’s 22 major airports. Only New York’s La Guardia […]


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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PLCB Claims Minors Served Booze at Xfinity Live

Since Xfinity Live opened up about a month ago, pretty much everybody in the city has been to—or at least hear of—the excitement spurred by […]

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Chadds Ford Horse Is Kentucky Derby Favorite With Inspiring Story

At 9/2 odds, a local horse is the favorite to win this weekend’s Kentucky Derby. Union Rags is from the area and has the same […]

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Teacher Suspended for Locking Son in Car at Sports Bar

A 50-year-old teacher at Haverford High School has been suspended as police investigate yesterday’s incident that prompted Ridley Township police to respond to reports of […]

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Celeb Scoop: Colin Farrell Shooting on Walnut Street

Yes, They’re Shooting on Walnut Street. Dead Man Down is making use of Walnut Street between 16th and 17th today from 6 a.m. to 9 […]

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Mark McDonald Criticizes the Media on Twitter

Yesterday Mayor Nutter issued an apology to Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky for comments his Press Secretary Mark McDonald tweeted in response to Polaneczky’s most […]

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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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Romney Raised More Than $1M in Montco on Tuesday

The campaign trail toward the general election brought Republican Mitt Romney to Montgomery County yesterday, where the presidential hopeful held two fund-raising events that should […]

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Bucs Sign Paralyzed Rutgers Defensive Tackle

Eric LeGrand was a defensive tackle for Rutgers University when an on-the-field spinal cord injury ended his playing career and left him paralyzed. LeGrand’s coach […]

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Sports Blogs Call Out Philly Scribes

For the second time in two weeks a Philly sports writer has been lambasted by a sports blog. Last week, Marcus Hayes of the Daily […]

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NBCU Helps Comcast Smoke First Quarter Expectations

NBCUniversal seems to have been a sound investment for Comcast as the corporation reports a first-quarter net income of $1.4 billion (up 39 percent from […]

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