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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

Beef bandits, billboard wars, an epic high school prom, and profiles of the biggest names in Philly — it’s our roundup of our favorite stories of 2025.


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How Philly Fell for Krampus — and a Darker Kind of Christmas

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Youth Sports in Philadelphia Are Uneven — and the Gaps Are Growing

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The Editors’ Cut: What We’re Reading, Watching, Doing, and Liking This Week

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Suburban beauty fanatics have two shops to sleuth out this fall.

Suburban beauty fanatics have two shops to sleuth out this fall. Scarlett Cosmetics (115 South Main Street, upper level, New Hope, 215-500-6912, scarlettcos.com) is back […]

Brooke dishes the latest gossip.

Popped into the kickoff luncheon for the Princess Diana exhibit at the Constitution Center, where CC prez Linda Johnson looked like she was headed to […]

A new boutique brings more to Rittenhouse than just great fashion.

With the opening of SA VA in Center City, Philly entrepreneur Sarah Van Aken proves that her design skills are as impressive as her business […]

The happiest little business in town.

Seven ladies stand on the corner of 34th and Walnut, waiting. It’s 12:02 p.m.The truck is late. But when they see it chugging toward them, […]

Everywhere you turn of late vampires are enjoying their day in the sun.

Everywhere you turn of late—at least in film, television and teen lit—vampires are enjoying their day in the sun (er, metaphorically speaking). But now the […]

Where your dinner and Big Brother intersect.

In these high-tech times, the fact that you may be videotaped by hidden cameras while you dine in your favorite restaurant may not be as […]


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.


Our latest batch of reasons to get out there and shop.

Tony: Phillies Sale!In honor of our fabulous champion baseball team, this trendy Old City boutique is marking down all red items in the store — […]

You won’t find your mother’s floor-length mink in Philly’s boutiques this fall.

You won’t find your mother’s floor-length mink in Philly’s boutiques this fall. Instead, fur is reinvented for the times via discreet, subtle touches like trims, […]

Check out how Philly’s boutiques are stocking one of this season’s most fashionable trends.

I’ve never been much of a fur girl. It always just seemed — I don’t know, a bit too much for me, or something. But […]

Travel editor Christy Speer has fall’s color-changing leaves on her mind.

Cheesy as it may be, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York — live! In person! —  is something of a dream of […]

So do towels. And condoms. My daughter’s brief life as a maid.

“I GOT THE job,” Marcy announces, bouncing into the kitchen in early June, smiling proudly. I look up from chopping onions. “What job?” “Housekeeper at […]

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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.


While we’re tightening belts, restaurants are rolling out ever more expensive booze. What gives?

At some point in the very near past, somewhere around the time unemployment reached record highs and the Dow record lows, I received an e-mail […]

Philadelphia’s art scene is unstoppable: Galleries are overflowing with new local talent.

Philadelphia’s art scene is unstoppable: Galleries are overflowing with new local talent, and artists from around the globe are opening studios in our city. How […]

Northern Liberties

In NoLibs, home of the gastropub, an upscale BYOB is a welcome change of pace. And while Sonata’s menu falls into the same pan-roasted-chicken-breast-and-lobster-mac-and-cheese trap […]

Northern Liberties

Tiffin’s Indian-food delivery empire is growing not only in size (look for spots in Wynnewood and Bryn Mawr), but also in breadth. This unusual spin-off, […]

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