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How Far Did Rocky Go in His Training Run in Rocky II?

Rocky wasn’t just a boxer. He was a marathoner.


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Allan Domb: “Make Philly Fun Again”

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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New Documentary Boys to Fame Tells the Most Tender Eagles Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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Spring Lake, NJ

I would like to travel more with our baby. I would also like to have staff. Instead, as I piled bags, diapers, toys, pack-‘n-play and […]

Jade Mountain, St. Lucia

“This place is insane!” my sister Hilary said for the 50th time on our second day at St. Lucia’s Jade Mountain resort. She was paddling […]

Westin, FL

For the second day in a row, I’m wearing only a plush robe, lounging in a designated “relaxation room” and happily waiting. This time for […]

Lancaster, PA

“Do you want to see the city?” asks the droll concierge at the Lancaster Arts Hotel. “Or did you come for the Amish shtick?” If […]

Because no two perfect getaways are alike (one man’s B&B, another man’s prison), and because there were too many new hotels, luxe resorts, burgeoning wine areas and cozy little alpaca farms to explore, we mapped out a slew of short trips as varied as the writers who took them. So stop with all that Internet travel surfing and start focusing on where, exactly, you’re going this fall

Leave the Kid at Home and Make Like You’re Newlyweds: Woodstock, NY Feel All “Home on the Range” (at Somebody Else’s Home): Butler County, PA […]

Ashley Primis reports on the Philly goodies you’ll want as temps drop, days get shorter, and little ones head back to school

All it takes is one great coat to make you feel totally pulled together and chic (even if you’re driving to a soccer game and […]


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.


Celebrate Oktoberfest this weekend with beers, wieners and music

The Irish have St. Patrick’s Day. The French have Bastille Day. Brazilians have Carnival. So when am I, Frau Strauss, proud to be German? It’s […]

Like a siren from a ’40s film-noir classic, this season’s fashions are all about dangerous glamor — reflected in sexy, sophisticated silhouettes and illuminated here amidst the shadows of Philadelphia

Like a siren from a ’40s film-noir classic, this season’s fashions are all about dangerous glamour — reflected in sexy, sophisticated silhouettes and illuminated here […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Snuggle Up

My Extreme Fall Home Makeover consists of 1) swapping out coral tchotchkes for leaf ones, and 2) tossing this grass-hued blanket over my couch’s arm. […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Hand to Foot

These gorgeous handmade shoes prove that Italians age shoes as well as wines: The mini-works of art are kept on a mold for four weeks, […]

A.C. Now: Déjà Dress

Remember when Banana Republic sold teensy A-line dresses made of stretchy wool (like 10 years ago)? They’re doing it again, with puffier sleeves, paler colors […]

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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.


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 […]

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