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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 […]

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 […]

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.

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

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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 […]

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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.

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 […]

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