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Philly Is a Hot New Hub for Publishing Insiders

Literary agents, best-selling authors, and industry conveners — they’re having some of their biggest successes in Philly.

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  1. Coatesville’s Hiller Brothers Are Two of the Best High School Athletes in America

  2. What the Hell Happened to World Cafe Live?

  3. Angela Duckworth Tells Us All About Her New Book and Parenting

  4. The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 8

  5. Police Are Not the Answer at Devil’s Pool

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Game On: Why Now Is the Moment for Women’s Sports in Philly

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Philly’s Neighborhood Pharmacies Might Just Save Us. Can We Save Them?

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Is Philly’s Next Hot Neighborhood … the Navy Yard?

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Macy’s Christmas Virgin

Miracle on Market Street

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Preview: 112th Congress

Mud slinging! Gridlock!

After smashing through barriers in politics, TV news and the adopting of kids, after surviving a Congressional defeat and her husband’s humiliating fall from grace, after becoming Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, Marjorie Margolies has just one thing to say: What’s next?

There was something strangely familiar about the man Chelsea Clinton married last summer. Mezvinsky, Marc Mezvinsky … wasn’t there a Mezvinsky who was in Congress, […]

Make the Yuletide Gay

A holiday guide to LGBT Philly

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Merry Christmas, Dad

What the Phillies gave us

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Rant of the Day!

Why Philly unions piss me off

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.

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Ask G Philly: Answering Reader Questions

You ask. We tell.

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How You Can Save a Life This Season

A message from The Trevor Project in Philly

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Temple’s new football coach

The Goods: Sweaters

Since hibernation is not an option this year, we’ve chosen our favorite chunky, cozy knits for bundling up in to face the Philly weather.

Carrie Sarlo-Randazzo doles out baby-shower bliss

Spotted in pink- or blue-crepe-papered living rooms across South Jersey: baby showers that are less pass-around-the-diaper and more meditate-on-the-mat. We’ve traced this trend back to […]

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.

The photographer who’s made a career capturing “the beauty and struggle of everyday life” just completed the final year of her decade-long exhibition under the I-95 overpass. But trips to Louisiana to shoot oil-soaked beaches and a 2012 solo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art keep her knee-deep in new projects. Here, her take on her art, anarchists and Lord of the Rings

I am a … lesbian feminist. I was born in … Pennsylvania Hospital on Pine Street. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for … 38 years. The […]

It’s the age of brains, Philly, which means the real action in town is happening west of the Schuylkill, where new Drexel president John Fry and a host of other bold thinkers are building what could be the city of the future. (Amazing what a guy can do when he only sleeps four hours a night) 

Over the distance of a little more than a dozen blocks, John Fry has guided his immaculate, country-club-ready Land Rover from a cute, leafy street […]

A turn-of-the-century stone colonial on the edge of Chestnut Hill mixes traditional bones and modern decor, pristine family heirlooms and abstract children’s art, to achieve cozy, colorful, lived-in elegance

The Shoemaker family’s Wyndmoor home has thick stone walls and symmetric black-shuttered windows. It has sweeping stairs, original fireplaces, dark cherry floors and crown molding […]

Joseph Kim and David B. Weiner might save a few million lives with SynCon

Joseph Kim is a lot of things: entrepreneur, CEO, 
doctor of biochemical engineering, Wharton MBA, one of MIT’s Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators of […]

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