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Bethlehem’s Eric Fair — hired by an American company to interrogate suspected terrorists — is home now. But he can’t stop obsessing over the lines he crossed in Iraq, and his story paints a harrowing picture of a rogue, outsourced war

Eric Fair tells his story that paints a harrowing picture of a rogue, outsourced war. ON A WINTER NIGHT IN IRAQ, darkness stole across the […]

Why good food and good buzz don’t always equal good business

One Wednesday night in June, every seat in Washington Square West’s M Restaurant was filled. The epicurean crowd, including restaurateurs Alison Barshak and Mark Bee […]

Did Michael and Sheryl Pouls use their muscle to get Baldwin School teacher Patsy Tollin fired? Or are Tollin’s old-school ways out of date? For the first time, both sides in the Battle of Baldwin tell their stories. A Main Line tale of power, wealth, scandal, and what happens when New Money collides with old traditions

Did Michael and Sheryl Pouls use their muscle to get Baldwin School teacher Patsy Tollin fired? Or are Tollin’s old-school ways out of date? ON […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Dog Dyeing

An interesting way suburbanites are spending their disposable income Styles Dog Grooming, 3049 West Chester Pike, Broomall, 610-355-0805 That suburbanites are now putting their disposable […]

What do you do when “helpful” friends start designing your yard and booking Botox appointments for you?

You need Botox,” said a friend — more of an acquaintance, really, a woman I’d met twice before — some months ago, eyeing my forehead […]

Pulse: Chatter: Is Entourage Killing Pablo?

This season, HBO’s hit comedy Entourage played up Vincent Chase (above) struggling to make Medellin, a film bio of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. As episodes […]

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?

Could the unthinkable—Democrats coming to power in the ’burbs—really happen? David Landau thinks so

When a U.S. president is unpopular, the American people have a pretty tried-and-true way of letting him know it: They throw out all his buddies […]

A renewed push to allow lawsuits for long-ago child sex abuse could force the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to its knees

In this heavily Catholic state, there’s little political appetite to take on the Church. So it didn’t shock anyone that attempts last year by Pennsylvania […]

Pulse: Philadelphicon: Walnut Street Theatre

You would think the Walnut Street Theatre would rest on its laurels. After all, the country’s oldest continuously operating theater has, in its 198-year history, […]

From the Editor: Substance Works

The trend in magazines these days, as in the culture at large, leans toward fluff. The conventional wisdom holds that we look to media to […]

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

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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.

Pulse: 60 Second Critic: CD: The Three Tenors of Soul

The Three Tenors of Soul, All the Way from Philadelphia Shanachie Entertainment; $18.98 The soulful “Sound of Philadelphia” once defined the city musically around the […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Diversion: Fright Night

If you’re thinking of skipping the 12 millionth Henri David Halloween ball this year and staying home to scare the bejesus out of yourself by […]

Pulse: 60 Second Critic: Nonfiction: Amish Grace

How Forgiveness Transcended Traged Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy By Donald B. Kraybill, ­Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-­Zercher (Jossey-Bass; $24.95) In the […]

Good Life: The 411: Shopping Trip: Suburban Outfitters

Which one of Philly’s mainstay stores has up and moved from its Narberth location Bryn Mawr? Bryn Mawr is bursting with style these days. (Note […]

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