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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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An Optimist’s Guide to Philadelphia

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Allan Domb Is Upbeat About Philly’s Economy (And You Should Be, Too)

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Believe It Or Not, Philadelphia Is Getting Cleaner

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Pamper, play, relax, repeat with these weekend adventures

IT’S TIME FOR THE EVENT YOU MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING forward to almost as much as your ceremony — your bachelorette party. We’ve scouted some […]

Too tired to drive home? Rest your head at one of these sweet spots.

Sleeping Over

We asked five local pros how to make your wedding photos picture-perfect — their answers may surprise you

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU PUT THREE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS and a videographer team together in a room? Really good advice. Advice I wish I […]

Get ready for more shopping. This time you’ll need something to wear.

Excess-orize

Grab a bite at one of these local stops, and everyone wins.

Atlantic City & the Shore: Hot Tables

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 […]


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?


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 […]

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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.


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 […]

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