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Yes, Philadelphia Is Safer Than They Say on TV

The city has made the national news far too often recently for incidents involving crime and public safety. A new administration has big plans to change — and correct — the narrative.


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Philadelphia Hospitals: Headache

Anyone plagued by recurrent headaches eventually becomes desperate to find out what causes them and how to make them disappear. That’s what drives patients to […]

Pulse: Out and About: Good Vibes

Without Roy Ayers, the vibraphone might be about as cool as the flügelhorn. In the 1970s, Ayers brought the vibes onto the radio with soulful […]

Fast opinions on recent bursts of creativity.

DVDs Captain Janks Phoney Calls Whenever history is made, Captain Janks is there to say something completely inappropriate. For 16 years, the North Wales resident […]

A coming revolution in health insurance could put a dent in your wallet.

Remember when HMOs were going to control the spiraling cost of health care? It didn’t work. Health insurance premiums have nearly doubled since 2000, and […]

Atlantic City may be changing. But the secret allure of Chef Vola’s is as powerful as ever.

When the Borgata opened two years ago, it proclaimed itself “your happy place.” But Atlantic City’s original happy place was and continues to be a […]

Pulse: Quick Takes

MY ARCHITECT? LOUIS KAHN, OF COURSE If you always wanted to own a building designed by Philly’s Louis Kahn — but the National Assembly in […]


Best of Philly 2023: City Life

Best of Philly 2023: City Life

An irresistible gossipmonger, numerous near-champions, and a roadway rebuild for the ages

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Back in the day, Philly, like a lot of cities, banked on a revival of its downtown to spark new life. The plan worked fine — for Center City. But now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?


The Birds & the NFL’s naughtiest website.

The camera pans down slowly, soaking up every inch of the buxom, bikini’d blonde, lingering on her hips as she teasingly tugs her bottoms low […]

Why Philadelphians still have trouble talking about the “00” years.

We didn’t mind for the first couple years of the century. After all, in the heady days of Y2K, with all its tantalizing possibilities, we […]

Philadelphia Hospitals: Hands

You’ve got to hand it to internationally known docs A. Lee Osterman and Randall Culp, who pioneered hand surgery in Philadelphia and continue to develop […]

Philadelphia Hospitals: Gastroenterology

We don’t usually think much about what happens to our food after we take a bite. But its complicated journey through the esophagus, stomach, liver, […]

Philadelphia Hospitals: Foot and Ankle

In 1998, the formerly unaffiliated School for Podiatric Medicine merged with Temple University to create the Foot and Ankle Institute, a respected institution whose clinic […]

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How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.

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.


Philadelphia Hospitals: Epilepsy

No other hospital in Philadelphia comes close to the volume of epilepsy surgery performed at the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center under the supervision of Michael […]

Features: Centers of Excellence: Diabetes

Some 21 million Americans have diabetes, an autoimmune disease caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce or regulate insulin. While progress has been […]

Philadelphia Hospitals: Critical Care

Seven years ago, Cooper Hospital recruited Joseph Parrillo, the doctor who created the first critical-care medicine department for NIH and the author of more than […]

Philadelphia Hospitals: Children

It’s no small feat to consistently be named the best children’s hospital in the nation, but the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia repeatedly pulls down that […]

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