We asked some of Philly’s brightest minds to sketch out their biggest, boldest, most audacious ideas for improving our town. Here, in broad strokes, are their plans for taking the city to the next level.

After decades in which I knew him from afar, my grandfather now lives 10 minutes away. I wasn’t used to having him around, and now he’s everywhere.

At last, a solution to the can’t-pet-’em-in-a-pandemic conundrum.

Canyons, lakes, vistas, mountains — oh my! Our October issue features the best places to get outside this fall.

Plus: State liquor police take it way easy on Philly-area bars amid COVID. And why you can’t watch the Eagles game with your friends.

Plus: $25,000 reward in hit-and-run of bicyclist. And how Trump could win Pennsylvania. Again.

A man says police pierced his skin to the bone with rubber bullets. A woman says she and her young kids were tear-gassed on her porch.

The city’s leading department on addressing gun violence has become a detriment to tackling this public health crisis.

Whether you need a “designer” mask, some doohickey that opens doors and presses buttons for you, or mint mask spray, they’ve got it.

It’s time to stop thinking of universities as altruistic civic institutions. They are businesses. Nothing more, nothing less.

From long waits at the polls to delays in counting ballots, there could be significant problems. But there are ways voters can help now.

Administration after administration, their plans have solved nothing. This is what having a front-row seat to decades of political futility looks like.

Schwenksville native Liz Anjos ran — yes <em>ran</em> — the entire 2,190 miles in 51 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes, a new northbound record for women. What’s your excuse for not running 40 miles a day?

“It was terrifying,” says one woman of what she saw when she walked into the mayor’s bar.

Former Temple architecture professor John James Pron, who has an exhibition at the Da Vinci Art Alliance on display through September 13th, discusses Philly’s (a)history, historical preservation and why he hates all public statues.