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Cute (and cost-conscious!) clothing comes to Rittenhouse Square

Expand your shopping horizons past Walnut Street, and you might stumble onto something Center City needs more of: independent boutiques with approachable price points. Jack […]

300 pages sure to make Smerconish’s bald head explode

Percipient Daily News columnist and Attytood blogger Will Bunch wrote this takedown of Ronald Reagan’s legacy after a 2008 Republican presidential debate. “Incredibly, half the […]

Feuds! Flings! Finales! The newest chapter in the Main Line’s salon soap opera

Since the dawn of time, hair salons have been hotbeds of drama and gossip, but these days on the Main Line, it’s Sweeney Todd meets […]

Sushi comes to South Philly’s restaurant row

Restaurateur Lynn Rinaldi thinks South Philly is ready for raw fish. And she would know; Rinaldi grew up just a block away from her sleek […]

A list of restaurants Philly mag staffers are eating at this month

Paesano’s Philly StyleNorthern Liberties In a nondescript building on an unassuming corner, Peter McAndrews — chef and owner of the nearby Italian BYO Modo Mio […]

Why does Philadelphia need 6,000 city-owned vehicles? Our man went looking for answers (on foot)

A FUNNY THING happened this past fall at nearly every town hall meeting Mayor Michael Nutter hosted to explain his plan for saving the city […]

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

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.

Recession, dumplings?

You couldn’t tell it was winter from the slinky metallic number Patricia DiGeorge (so gorg!) shimmied around in at the eighth annual Champagne & Snow […]

How conspicuous consumption in Philadelphia suddenly got gauche

HOW TOUGH IS it out there? Tough enough that at Chestnut Hill’s privileged Springside School, the moms at pickup aren’t holding back about how much […]

So you’ve been feeling the pinch of the downturn … at least you’re in good company.

“I’m buying less plastic and more biodegradable goods — spending more wisely in ways that foster sustainability.”  — Sister Mary Scullion, Project H.O.M.E. “I told my […]

Chef Daniel Stern brings his "Best Restaurant Dish" to the table. 

In a moment of marketing genius, Gayle chef/owner Daniel Stern took his 2006 Food & Wine “Best Restaurant Dishes” winner — and turned it into […]

Can Penn State afford the new and improved Penn State?

In the educational arms race, State College attorney Sam Malizia is a valuable weapon. He’s donated hundreds of thousands to Penn State, his alma mater. […]

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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.

An epidemic comes to a head

“There is no one season for lice,” professional nitpicker Wendy Pincus says cheerfully. “There will be outbreaks in one area and it’ll be the hot […]

An homage upon an homage at the Art Museum

By all accounts, the Cézanne and Beyond exhibit that opens February 26th at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be big — not only because […]

The woman who is putting a new face on the old neighborhood candy shop

Willy Wonka — or even Milton S. Hershey — 26-year-old Sara Block is not. But the chain of Naked Chocolate Cafés (named by USA Today […]

Last May, Philadelphians were stunned when police officer Stephen Liczbinski was shot in cold blood during an altercation with robbers.

ONE MORNING THIS past May, three men sat in a Jeep outside a Port Richmond bank and put on new identities. To Western eyes, two […]

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