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How Far Did Rocky Go in His Training Run in Rocky II?

Rocky wasn’t just a boxer. He was a marathoner.


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Allan Domb: “Make Philly Fun Again”

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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

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PA Pols: Keep Your Schmoozing at Home

Don’t you just love when a politician begins a sentence with “My good friend”? It’s the kiss of death. It means he or she is […]

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TV Recap: 24/7

Holy hockey porn, Batman! Last night marked the much ballyhooed premiere of HBO’s 24/7—an in-depth, docu-style look at the Flyers and Rangers as they prepare […]

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Christmas Isn’t Sexist At All

The fact that women have to spend more of our less-than-a-man’s wages on disposable items is part of the conspiracy to keep us down. There […]

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Stuff Gay Guys Say

It’s all true. All of it.

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The Financial Aid Debate

LGBT-friendly reforms a reality?

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The Gallery Is The Best Mall

Two weeks is an acceptable mourning period for the Occupy Philly encampment. Time to embrace rampant capitalism again! To me, there’s no better way to […]


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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Who Says Congress Doesn’t Work?

There are more than 5,600 bills winding their way through the legislative maze that is the 112th U.S. Congress. And in between the latest efforts to […]

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Big Changes for Stimulus

A new venue in 2012

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Morning Scoop: Flash Mob Flashback

Two Teens Randomly Attack Germantown Man. Two teenagers randomly attacked an Asian man in Germantown yesterday afternoon. They followed him for a couple of blocks […]

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Dexter Trumps Joan Didion

It used to be, back when we all read books, that right about now, with the Three Wise Men lumbering into our line of vision, […]

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Bruce Toll’s Family Drama

Back in 1997, Bruce Toll (as in Toll Bros. aka “America’s Luxury Home Builder”®) couldn’t have been happier. The housing market was skyrocketing, with Chairman […]

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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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Turnpike Gets Car-Charging Stations

The Pennsylvania turnpike has been awarded $1 million to install electric car-charging stations at 17 service stations along the interstate. Car Charging Group L.L.C. got […]

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SEPTA Owed $8.4M in Fines

SEPTA placed a $274 million order for 120 of the new Silverliner V cars—the first of which hit the tracks in October of 2010. Hyundai-Rotem—the […]

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City Workers Waste Time

The City Controller conducted an investigation of time use by Philadelphia Free Library maintenance workers following a report by FOX 29. The result of his […]

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Cop Tasered Girl, Faces Lawsuit

A police officer in Allentown has been named in a lawsuit alleging he unlawfully tasered a 14-year-old Dieruff High School student back in September. The […]

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