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Good Life: Prime Finds: Totally Clutch

This glam fold-over clutch, made from buttery-soft, new-car-smelling leathers and suedes, is totally me — and the brainchild of Willingboro resident Terina McKinney, who’s added […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Sweet Treat

I can’t bake. But I can trick Thanksgiving guests into thinking I can by making my home smell fresh-out-of-the-oven apple-pie delish with this cutie candle. […]

Is your go-to breakfast as good for you as you think?

Is your go-to breakfast as good for you as you think? It’s getting to be that time of year when the temps finally start to […]

Can thousands of gritty New­ Yorkers, some displaced street gangs, a few ­terrorists, and a multimillionaire junk man with a new ­casino learn to love each other and revive the Poconos?

WITH SYMBOLISM THAT WAS RIPE AND THICK AS THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL IN JUNE, THE OLD POCONOS DIED NEAR THE END OF LAST CENTURY WITH A […]

The owner of Geno’s Steaks in South Philly, Joey Vento, started a big brouhaha by demanding that his customers order in English. But the reason why he did runs deeper than you might think

Joey Vento started a big brouhaha by demanding that his customers order in English. But the reason why he did runs deeper than you might […]

Four decades ago, one of Philadelphia’s most powerful and iconic companies looked the other way while more than 60 of its employees died of lung cancer. Now, with at least a dozen workers dead from a rare form of brain cancer, could history be repeating itself?

There is good science, and there is bad science. The distance between the two is an infinitesimal divide. THERE IS GOOD science, and there is […]


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?


New high-rise condos are popping up all over Center City. But when it comes to crazy days and wild nights, none will ever compare to the Dorchester

‘‘It’s the true walk of shame,” says a guy-about-town we’ll call Mr. Horndog. He’s harking back to his single days in the early ’90s, when […]

Philly is facing a murder crisis, a poverty crisis and an education crisis. Unfortunately for our new mayor, that’s not the bad news

The biggest problem facing Philadelphia wasn’t much talked about during the recent mayoral primaries. And when it did come up, the enormity of the problem […]

With smut available at the click of a mouse, how does Philly’s most storied adult theater stay in business? You might not want to know

AUGUST 3, 1984. Disco is finally and officially dead. Hair metal is in, in a big way. And the feminist movement just saw its first […]

What really scares me about putting my daughter behind the wheel

I’m sitting in my own car, in my own hometown, going less than 10 miles an hour — and I’m rigid with terror. My back […]

Good Life: Homegrown: Wrap Artists

We’ve found some of the most beautiful scarves — right here in Philadelphia Some of the most beautiful, changeable wool, satin and textured scarves come […]

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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.


With dresses (and pencil skirts) projected to be the biggest spring trend around Philly, it’s time to start getting your gams in gear! Here, two local fitness gurus (and 2007 Best of Philly winners) tell you how.

Karen Pecarsky, owner and instructor at Urbanfront Pilates, says the secret to sculpting quads, hamstrings, calves and glutes is to work on the Reformer or […]

You may have only recently busted out your sweaters, but Philly’s fashion set is always one season ahead of the rest of us. So as soon as New York Fashion Week wrapped, we pressed Center City style-makers to reveal what their boutiques will be stocking when the snow melts. (Hint: dresses! And tons of color.)

Third Street Habit January Bartle of Third Street Habit is scooping up a range of blazers. “My customers are starting to feel a bit sloppy […]

Host, It’s Your Call With Lynn Doyle on CN8

Day One: Manicure with tip: $23 Salon Privé, Newtown; Groceries: $340.69 Acme; Lunch: $5.50 Chick-fil-A; Alcohol for party: $140.21 Newtown; Housekeeper bill: $550 Newtown; Haircut: […]

Hemlines may rise and fall with the stock market, but what do fashion’s changing silhouettes — and guys’ reactions to them — say about the times?

Two thousand seven was a lovely summer. The weather was warm, the street cafés were bustling, and Shore traffic was tolerable. But the best — […]

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