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To Stave Off Gentrification, Kensington Becomes Its Own Landlord

How one special sliver of the city is redefining what smart neighborhood development can look like in Philadelphia … and far beyond.


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New Documentary Boys to Fame Tells the Most Tender Eagles Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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The Man at the Forefront of the Battle Over Philly’s Slavery Memorial Tells All

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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Plane Crashes on Jersey Highway

Interstate 287 in Harding, New Jersey is currently shutdown after a small plane heading from New York City to Georgia crashed onto the highway. Reports […]

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Dirty Schuylkill Water Has Soul

Last night, a number of prominent musicians from Philly lent their hands and voices to the VH1 DIVAS Celebrates Soul special. Jill Scott, ?uestlove and […]

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Dear G Philly

You ask. We tell.

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Mayor Nutter’s Political Cartoon

Daily News cartoonist Signe Wilkinson is busy baking cookies for the rest of 2011. While she’s out on vacation, she’s turned her space in the […]

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Happy Hanukkah!

Getting down with eight nights of lights

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Gift Ideas for the Philly Sports Fan

Holy sh%&. It’s December 20th, which means there are only … *carries the one* … five business days left between right now and Christmas morning. […]


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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Not the Girl Scouts, Too!

A transgender child faces criticism

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Corbett’s Sandusky Problem

Most people cite Bonusgate—the bipartisan political corruption prosecution—when asked to name Tom Corbett’s chief accomplishment as state attorney general. But not his wife. In an […]

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LGBT Caucus Created

It’s a first for PA

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Morning Scoop: Phils Murder Sentencing

Sentencing in Phillies Parking Lot Beating Death. Three men plead guilty in the beating death of 22-year-old David Sale outside of McFadden’s at Citizens Bank […]

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“It’s a Wonderful Life” Is Communist Propaganda

It’s a Wonderful Life is by far the greatest Christmas film ever. Like most cult classics, it was a failure at the box office, but […]

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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.


How to Tap-Dance

      It’s a Tuesday night, and I’m tap-dancing at a bus stop. It’s raining (so Gene Kelly!), and cars that pass by splash […]

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My Dead Aunt Is on Facebook

Several years ago, my Aunt Cathy’s neighbor in Washington D.C. noticed a small lump—I think it was on Cathy’s neck. She went and got it […]

A family tradition, at last revealed

    “Oh, you just cut it up real small, no one knows what’s in there anyway,” says my 83-year old grandmother, waving away the […]

Hell, on wheels

    It’s not true what they say about riding a bike. You can forget. My dad taught me to ride when I was a […]

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