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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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The Redevelopment of the Old Family Court Building Is Dead

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From Fairmount to the Today Show: The Journey of Sheinelle Jones

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The Zombies in This Philly Horror Flick Only Eat White People

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Protecting tradition — gin martinis, bourbon old-fashioneds — at the Old Guard House Inn

It’s predictable to compare the bar at the Old Guard House Inn to Cheers, but it’s hard to avoid the theme’s refrain when, well, everybody […]

Taste: Dinner With … Sommelier Melissa Monosoff

First taste of wine: At the synagogue when I was three. My parents thought it was grape juice, but it was ­really Manischewitz. I was […]

Where to Get Your Game On

Well, Philadelphia, it’s finally here. The moment we have all been waiting for. Forever. The only thing left to do is have the unnecessarily long […]

The hot spots Philly Mag staffers are eating at this month.

Gullifty’s For 33 years, Gullifty’s has been a college hangout, a serious beer bar, and a family-friendly restaurant with a menu of from-scratch foods whose […]

One must-have accessory this fall: the big, bold necklace.

Woven necklace, $278 at Anthropologie. Armani Collezioni asymmetrical mirrored-glass necklace, $950 at Neiman Marcus. Maison Martin Margiela chrome necklace, $595 at Joan Shepp. Alexis Bittar […]

Jose Garces’s new place flaunts his playful side.

The neon signs of Distrito, Jose Garces’s new Mexican restaurant, light up 40th Street in University City like a beacon to everyone in a five-block […]


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.


Joy Manning reviews Stephen Starr’s newest edition to Philadelphia dining, Parc.

In the beginning (13 years ago), there was the Continental. Stephen Starr had left a 15-year career in the music industry to open his first […]

How women have come to the front lines in Philadelphia law-enforcement

In a city known for macho swagger, it may come as a surprise to realize that nearly all the top law-enforcement officials — the toughest […]

In the insular world of Philadelphia sports teams and sports-obsessed advertisers, no one stands taller than Eagles tackle Jon Runyan

IT’S A TESTAMENT to the determination of Jon Runyan, or to whatever else is driving him, that he is here this Tuesday afternoon, in front […]

Rabbi David Wolpe debates against atheist Christopher Hitchens

Main Liners may know David Wolpe — rabbi of L.A.’s Sinai Temple, author, talking head — as the son of ­Gerald, former ­rabbi of Penn […]

How a boosted pot here and a ­stolen sweater there spell big ­trouble on Walnut Street

NOT ALL THAT long ago, the biggest problem on Walnut Street — a.k.a. Philly’s sparkliest shopping district — was trying to lure people to it. […]

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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.


Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: A Call to Farms

Michael Pollan, the New York Times Magazine‘s go-to scribe on food politics, is at it again with an open letter to our future president. In […]

Wyomissing’s country-music superstar releases her sophomore album, Fearless, this month

In case you wouldn’t know Tim McGraw from a McNugget, here’s what Taylor Swift will have accomplished before she turns 19 next month: released a […]

Campbell Soup heiress Dorrance Hamilton has enjoyed a life of wealth and years as the face of the Main Line

Matt Hamilton already knew that his mother was one of your more independent billionaire heiresses. But even he wasn’t quite prepared for the Bermuda trip. […]

The city’s abuzz about judges who go too easy on hardened criminals. But the problem isn’t just the judges

ONE DAY IN early March 2007, at the Keystone Building in Harrisburg, there was a lottery drawing. Not for cash, but to decide who would […]

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