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Ben Kirshner’s Plan to Transform How Pennsylvania Does Business

Pennsylvania is a notoriously tough place to start or run a business. Can the first guy to sell coffee on the internet fix that? The governor sure thinks so.


Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks and Grace Kelly all made memorable moments in Philadelphia Oscars history (photos via Getty Images)
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Great (and Not So Great) Moments in Philly Oscars History

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Inside Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Wild Ride From Mount Airy to the Oscars

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Jason Kelce Retires After 13 Seasons

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Pulse: A&E: DJ Touch Tone

The first time Olney’s Anthony Stevenson took a needle from a turntable and scratched it against a record, he was a 13-year-old radio buff. The […]

Harrah's vs. A.C. icons

Do tourists visiting Harrah’s casinos in Atlantic City know they’ve landed in the middle of a war? The donnybrook goes back to mid-October, when Harrah’s […]

The cops patrol Craigslist

Last spring, Bensalem police detective Joseph Sciscio got a tip on a drug dealer in the usual way: through a confidential informant. But rather than […]

BOP Spotlight: Ice Cream

Ice Cream: Franklin Fountain

An inn built when the Commonwealth was still a colony reinvents itself as a steak-and-seafood house

American Evolution

Chances are, your single status isn’t the only thing you’ll be shedding on your Big Day. Most likely, a few tears will threaten to mess your perfectly painted lashes. We asked local experts for their top mascara picks and put them to the tears

Who? Marla Malcolm Beck, CEO and founder of Bluemercury, with several locations including Philadelphia What? Trish McEvoy High Volume Waterproof Mascara in Jet Black, $26 […]


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?


Home: Homefront: Season in the Sun

Season in the Sun

Taste: Shopping at: Pinot

Gourmet stores, like petite, Spanish-influenced Quince on Girard Avenue (try the Matiz Andaluz sugared crisps) and pretty Old City Cheese (pick up some Ardrahan, pungent […]

Taste: Where We’re Eating: February 2007

Striped Bass During his stint at New York’s gilded Gilt, chef Paul Liebrandt polished his reputation as a renegade — a “bad-boy chef” full of […]

The bright side of being Republican

Local Republicans doing some soul-­searching after last month’s election can take solace: There are at least two reasons to be ­optimistic — Chris Mottola and […]

From the Editor: December 2006

Last month, we broke from our standard fare and put a gun on our cover, in an effort to jar all of us awake in […]

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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.


Off the Cuff: December 2006

From the air, as my plane came in low over the barren wasteland, it looked like the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz — […]

BOP Spotlight: TV Store

TV Store: HiFi House

BOP Spotlight: Lighting

Lighting: Artemide

Though University of the Arts grad Ana Ortiz stars as Hilda, the big sister on this year’s breakout TV hit Ugly Betty, she’s best known around these parts as the daughter of ex-city councilman Angel Ortiz (who, in 2001, was busted for driving

Exit Interview: Where are you right now, and do you have a driver? Ana Ortiz: Oh, no, I drive myself. I’m headed to the Santa […]

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