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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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GreenFest flowers on South Street this Sunday

More than 100 exhibitors will throng to South Street to demo new ways to reduce, reuse and recycle through music, food, art and fashion. Ever […]

They’ve won exactly one NFL championship since 1950. They charge a small ransom for tickets. The quarterback is always hurt, the receiving corps is suspect, and our T.O. hangover lingers. We’ve endured Richie Kotite. Yet we still live and die by our Birds

View our expanded “Bleeding Green” slideshow

Paul Campise is 76 years old, a retired court reporter who lives on Main Street in Moorestown, with a summer place on Long Beach Island. […]

High Steaks: Table Scraps

As a longtime food critic for Esquire, John Mariani sits down at the best tables in America for a living. Given Philadelphia’s current food-crazed state, […]

High Steaks: So Really, How’s the Food?

While the lawyers debate what, exactly, Craig LaBan ate, we sent two visiting food critics to see how the steaks in question rate. Our outside […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Reporting Live

Junior’s first day of school deserves to be documented. In HD. Directly to a DVD. Junior’s first day of school deserves to be documented. In […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Beyond the Brown Bag

Paul Frank’s lunch boxes are so cool and tough, they’re like insurance against lunchroom bullies. Paul Frank’s lunch boxes are so cool and tough, they’re […]


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?


Go to extremes with the 11th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe

Go to extremes with the 11th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe Starting tomorrow, some 2,000 artists are expected to entertain, enlighten and […]

Sedona, AZ

After my early-morning flight and drive through the Arizona desert, I’m looking forward to drifting off during the Sedona Clay Wrap I’ve booked at the […]

Paul Vallas was the most effective Philadelphia schools chief in a generation. So why did he leave for New Orleans? The story of his downfall says something about Vallas — and even more about the nature of Philly power

Paul Vallas was the most effective Philadelphia schools chief in a generation. So why did he leave for New Orleans? The story of his downfall […]

Cherry Hill’s hot, vibrant-haired Heroes star comes to theaters this month in Resident Evil: Extinction

Cherry Hill’s hot, vibrant-haired Heroes star comes to theaters this month in Resident Evil: Extinction When we first interviewed Ali Larter, she was best known […]

Suddenly I’m a stranger in my own home

I WANTED A boy. I’ve admitted as much to my daughter Marcy, my firstborn. When I was pregnant with her, I longed to give my […]

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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.


Co-anchor, CBS 3 Eyewitness News

A week of receipts from Larry Mendte, CBS 3 Eyewitness News co-anchor. DAY ONE Toll (E-ZPass): $2, Atlantic City ExpresswayToll (E-ZPass): $.70, Garden State Parkway […]

Want some Eagles on your fantasy roster, but don’t want to let bleeding green cloud your judgment? Here, our expert cheat sheet on which home-team guys are worth drafting — and when

Brian Westbrook, RBTake him: 1st RoundAfter busting out for 1,217 rushing yards and 77 receptions last year, the Villanova product comes into this year ranked […]

With Lobster and Thai Basil

Relish the last of summer’s fresh veggies with the simple ingredients and light cooking that are a hallmark of chef Andrew Deery at Phoenixville’s Majolica. […]

The road to being a Birds cheerleader is paved with torturous tryouts, exhausting dance routines and lots of mascara. But could today’s pom-pom girls also be — gulp — the new face of feminism?

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The road to being a Birds cheerleader is paved with torturous tryouts, exhausting dance routines and lots of mascara. But could today’s pom-pom girls also […]

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