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To Stave Off Gentrification, Kensington Becomes Its Own Landlord

How one special sliver of the city is redefining what smart neighborhood development can look like in Philadelphia … and far beyond.


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

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The Man at the Forefront of the Battle Over Philly’s Slavery Memorial Tells All

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Inside the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Epic Meltdown

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Travel: Charleston Architecture

The rain started to fall not long after we arrived in downtown Charleston. We’re talking biblical-grade rain: fat and window-rattling, rain that came down so […]

Travel: Travel With a Passion: Bucks County

* What to do Tour the James A. Michener Art Museum (above), with its collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist works, many of them given by Philly’s […]

Travel: Travel With a Passion: Boston

* What to do From the Paul Revere House to the Nichols House Museum to the Old North Church, the city bursts with Colonial history […]

Travel: Cooking in the Berkshires

It started out as a weekend of heirloom beet salads and ended up, as usual, with burgers. Our trip to a country hotel in the […]

A seaside town haunted by its past attracts Wiccans, art lovers and literary fans

At some point, “family vacation” becomes an oxymoron: Where do you go with teenagers? Ours acquiesced to Salem, Massachusetts, a town once gripped by hysterical […]

Nantucket’s sweet spots, from rustic Madaket to the oh-so-chic Vanessa Noel Hotel

I boarded the jet for Nantucket stuffed up from cold symptoms and allergies, but I felt better as soon as I stepped onto the tarmac […]


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.


Travel: Vintage Visits: Chester County

From 14-year-old French Creek Ridge Vineyards in Elverson, an hour west of Philadelphia, through the winding back roads of Chester County to Chester Springs and […]

Travel: Vintage Visits: Bucks County

Joseph Maxian, dressed in a grape-patterned tie and a vest embroidered with wine labels, is lecturing about the sediment that settles at the bottom of […]

Travel: Vintage Visits: Atlantic County

You can make a weekend of touring the wineries of southern New Jersey, which, legend holds, has been a grape-growing region since the time of […]

Hurricane-bashed Bermuda is -recovering quite nicely, thanks

The only thing you need to know for a perfect Bermuda vacation is this: You should always be close enough to the ocean to see […]

Travel: Go With The Gang: Mountain Lodge in West Virginia

The pick: The BrazenHead Inn in Mingo Village, in the Potomac Highlands. The area features skiing at Snowshoe, trout fishing, endless hiking and mountain biking. […]

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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.


Travel: A Tuscan Villa

The pick: Villa Salicotta, on the Umbrian border of Tuscany. Feast on golden countryside vistas from this peaceful hilltop perch. Stone walls and antique furniture […]

Travel: Go With The Gang: A Southwest Houseboat

Whether tooling past Arizona’s colorful cliffs on Lake Mohave, or charting a course through 110-mile Lake Mead, this slow cruiser offers a novel way to […]

A new family resort in the Poconos is all child’s play—until Dad hits the black-diamond waterslide

We arrived later than we’d expected—seven-ish on Saturday evening, having spent what seemed like six days caught in a Poconos traffic jam—and so we immediately […]

Travel: Fun and sun even a teen could love: Club Med, Punta Cana

ADULT APPEAL: Yes, it’s mega-resorty and family-friendly, but Club Med’s Dominican Republic property—a four-hour direct flight from Philadelphia—features a truly inviting tropical setting (thatched-roof bars, […]

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