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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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Power Lunch: Jane Golden for Mayor

For 25 years, Jane Golden has been the maestro of one of the city’s true artistic treasures, the Mural Arts Program. Since she debuted the […]

Do Kids Cause Divorce?

In June, Melissa* packed the U-Haul with everything that was hers and everything that was theirs — the Disney videos, the Littlest Pet Shop figurines, […]

Ed Rendell: The Oral History

What can you say about a man who shoves food in his pockets and eats with his hands? Who tore off his shirt and dove […]

The graceful aging of Philadelphia fashion legend.

At Sophy Curson, the Rittenhouse Square boutique completing its 80th year next month, you must ask for things.Starting at the front door, where you ring […]

Pierre Paulin’s Pumpkin chairs get reinvented.

This is a chair. Its name is “Pumpkin,” and it is famous. French furnishing designer Pierre Paulin created the first -Pumpkin chairs in 1971 for […]

How flip-flops became summer’s default footwear — and why it’s wrong.

Let me be clear. There is nothing wrong with flip-flops. Classic rubber sandals — I’d call them thongs, but you’d laugh — are summertime staples. […]


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.


The Oh My Gorgeous employee reveals her must-have beauty items.

Wills, the newest member of the illustrious team at Gladwyne salon OMG, spent the past six years managing Neiman Marcus’s Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics counter, […]

Stuff you can’t miss this month

Hope It Was Worth ItThat $70 Million PaintingAfter all that fuss, you can finally see Thomas Eakins’s freshly restored Gross Clinic for yourself at its […]

This campaign season, Philly politicians are all a-Twitter. But does anybody care?

Sixty-five-year-old Congressman Bob Brady — competing with other House Dems to see who can build the largest following on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — is […]

Pulse: Chatter: Reel Life

You win one Pulitzer, and suddenly everybody wants a piece of you — especially when you’re part of a duo of investigative reporters (and suburban […]

Quotable Ed

January 1978Becomes district attorney of Philadelphia.January 1986“I believe, prior to my coming in, the [D.A.’s] office had established a reputation that the fate of cases […]

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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.


Ask a Top Doctor: Do My Kids Need to Wear Sunglasses?

“The greatest amount of UV damage to the eye happens in the first 18 years of life, so it’s even more vital for children to […]

New Gym in Town

Voorhees’s Versa Fit Studio is famous for its fat-burning, skin-smoothing “Vacu Fit” ellipticals and treadmills. It also offers Pilates, spinning, tae kwon do, zumba and […]

Dinner Party

On food television — Iron Chef, Chopped, The Next Food Network Star — restaurant chefs are in a constant state of battle, knives out and […]

Our Mayor, The One-Liner Wonder

When, in June, it was revealed that certain city -employees had been fixing parking tickets for acquaintances, the Mayor denounced the practice. “This city is […]

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