Guides

Celebrating the Most Talented Curtis Institute of Music Graduates

Plus, a look at the prestigious Rittenhouse school’s rising stars, including a 14-year-old who insists on remaining mononymous.


Longform

Paul Offit vs. RFK Jr. Is the Battle of Our Times

Guides

Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

Latest Stories

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Would a Newspaper-less Philly Be So Bad?

Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]

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Would a Newspaper-less Philly Be So Bad?

Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]

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JoePa Services Cost $29,000

The three days of memorial services held to honor Joe Paterno cost $29,000. Penn State University will pay for the $6,000 dedicated to the campus […]

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If Alcohol Were a Person…

A former drinker comes clean

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Nobody Likes Michael Vick

Forbes released a list of the 1o Most Hated Athletes and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick topped the list. Apparently people haven’t forgotten about the […]

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Show Some Love

Will you be DVLF’s Valentine?


Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Our world-champion Eagles, a messy traffic stop, an unexpected councilperson, and the Delco pope

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

A six-figure budget. Hundreds of helpers. Giant art installations. A tentacled kraken. This prom is like no other.


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Chris Christie Is a Desperate Man

In 1773, the colonists were so fed up that they dumped their tea in Boston Harbor in protest. More and more of their hard-earned money […]

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Take That, Prop 8

What it all really means

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What’s Next? Diphtheria?

As we all know from Roland Emmerich’s documentary 2012, this will be a year of disaster. It could be the end of the world unless […]

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Stop Whining About Corbett’s Budget Cuts

In 2009, on day three of the Obama administration, the President met with Eric Cantor and a handful of other congressional leaders in the White […]

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Bitterness Loves Company on the Internet

The reviews are in. I wrote a story in this month’s Philadelphia magazine. Perhaps you saw it. It was a profile of a woman named […]

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

Beloved Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo became first-time parents — and gave their species a ray of hope.

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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Philly Will Never Be a World-Class City (and That’s OK)

Last week, the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia announced a three-day conference on “Building Resilient Cities” planned for May, where academics and the like will come […]

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Morning Scoop: Rick Santorum Takes Three States in One Night

Santorum Takes Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Yeah, he took home three states last night. So, he’s for serious now, huh? [CBS News] Kindergartners Are Clubbing […]

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Remember When a Judge Let Jerry Sandusky Out on Bail?

Prosecutors have filed a motion hoping to have the bail conditions for Jerry Sandusky altered. Sandusky has allegedly been watching nearby schoolchildren from the back […]

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Infant Dies at Unlicensed Daycare in Northeast

Police are investigating the death of an infant after they received an emergency call from an unlicensed daycare in the Northeast. There doesn’t seem to […]

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