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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.


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

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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

Opinion

Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

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Turn Off Your $%!*@#& Cab Lights!

We’ve all been there. It’s late. It’s raining. You need to hail a cab. So you go to the curb, extending your arm in the […]

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What We Love: Naked Poets

You’re welcome

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New Guidelines in Housing

HUD and the LGBT community

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Would You Like Jonathan Adler Next to Your Toilet?

In the latest bizarre design news, lifestyle guru Jonathan Adler has been tapped to design toilet paper covers for Cottonelle. Yes, you read that correctly. […]

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A Pizza Hut in Rittenhouse Square?

“I think the entire government should be privatized. Chuck E. Cheese could run the parks. Everything operated by tokens. Drop in a token, go on […]

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Why is the GOP in Bed with the Ex-Gay Movement Anyway?

Romney endorses reparative therapy


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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Why Does Newt Gingrich Hate Wall Street?

Not gonna lie: It’s fun as hell to watch Newt Gingrich—a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination—openly sneer at Wall Street. But it does […]

The decidedly old-school Chiarella’s on East Passyunk recently survived a visit from Gordon Ramsay and his Kitchen Nightmares crew. How does that sort of thing change a place?

  In the magazine, this month’s lead review addresses a question that sounds like a no-brainer: Why would you want to expose yourself to the […]

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Eagles Fans Need the Giants to Win the Super Bowl

It is borderline ridiculous that Tom Coughlin, the man who is in the hot seat so often that one expects him to get fired at […]

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Morning Scoop: Black-on-White Hate Crime in Center City

Three Teens Arrested for Assaulting Cabbie. On Saturday night, it’s alleged that three teenagers shouted racial slurs at the passenger in a cab before pulling […]

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How Yale Screwed Up a Sexual Assault Complaint

Back in September, I wrote in the magazine about the problems posed for colleges and universities by the Department of Education’s new rules governing how […]

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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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Don’t Stop Watching “Downton Abbey”

Unless you have been living on Mars, in a cave, with your fingers in your ears, you have probably heard about Downton Abbey, the compelling […]

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Phils and Pence Ink One-Year, $10.4M Deal

Hunter Pence and the Phillies avoided arbitration by settling on a one-year, $10.4 million contract. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s go eat. […]

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CBS Parts Ways With Blogger Over Paterno Report

Onward State—a website run by Penn State students—prematurely reported that Joe Paterno had passed away. The organization tweeted that the football team had received a […]

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Whooping Cough at Great Valley HS

Two cases of whooping cough have been reported at Great Valley High School. If this were 18th-century London we’d all be in some serious trouble. […]

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