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

Arlene Ackerman Out

Multiple sources confirm

News

PIN and Teller

Why is online banking so hard?

News

The Eagles’ Weird New Defensive Plan

Sometimes it works, sometimes it really doesn’t

News

Studies Show: I’m Going to Die

I’m always doing something wrong

Morning Scoop: Iran Sentences Local

Plus: Nutter extends curfew

The Revisit: Sketch

“Oh my God if you don’t feed me some of that food I’m gonna eat your hipster face off.” And okay, so that line wasn’t […]


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.


Who, exactly, are these people teaching our kids what constitutes rape and what makes for good relationships? We asked some of the biggies in the field for their bona fides

Keith Edwardsfounder, “Men Ending Rape” (or, “She Fears You”) LIFE BEFORE THIS: Worked in residential and campus life at colleges, including the University of Delaware. […]

How the federal government and a Malvern lawyer are rewriting the rules on campus hookups—and tagging young men as dangerous predators

Jack and Diane are at a party at their college. It’s September of their freshman year. They’re still excited about being away from home, on […]

A generation ago, Ronald Reagan decreed Montgomery County one of the three best-run Republican strongholds in the entire country. Now, with the party decimated by a half-dozen years of feuding among GOP heavyweights, a very rich, mysterious newcomer has entered the void to take Montco politics to an even darker place

Before the Montgomery County officials started calling each other sick bastards and dicks and laughingstocks, before they whipped out words and phrases like complicit and […]

Off the Cuff: September 2011

I’m sure all of us are tired of hearing about the lousy economy and the sorry state of Washington politics. But like a lot of […]

The Three Best Ways to Eat Lobster

Lobster Roll, Oyster HouseThe only thing that lobster fanatics like more than lobster rolls is complaining about the price of lobster rolls. Because, really, they […]

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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.


Reviews

This Greek joint brings the noise

When it comes to digital first impressions (like the one just mentioned in the Fare review), Opa goes for sheer volume. A cartoon folk dancer […]

The new Fairmount spot serves food that’s good for you, if not actually good

Once upon a time (and maybe not as long ago as it seems), your first impression of a restaurant came over the rim of a […]

This month, the president of Penn helps bridge the gap (the physical one, at least) between Center City and University City with the completion of Penn Park—the giant public green space at the former parking-lot wasteland at 31st and Walnut. Here, President- Gutmann shares more of her grand hopes for the future, her fears for her students, and a little love for Jon Stewart.

I am … a Jewish-American, first-generation college graduate, president of one of the world’s finest universities, and proud Philadelphian. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for … […]

Construction on Walt Whitman Bridge

Massive project starts next week

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