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Q&A: South Philly’s Pulitzer-Winning Playwright James Ijames on His Big Broadway Debut

Plus, we ask him about his super-secret TV project and living in Mummerland.


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6 Philadelphians With Promising Approaches to Gun Violence Prevention

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Other States Have Cool License Plates. Why Can’t Pennsylvania?

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Why is the-guy-in-the-bow-tie really running for Congress?

Ask Apprentice addicts how they remember Raj Bhakta, the bow-tied flirt from the show’s second season, and you’ll get something like “goofy, but smart,” or […]

Five Questions for USPS governor Alan Kessler

What with founding Postmaster General Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday, the issuance of a Franklin stamp, and the opening of a new mail-processing facility in South […]

Philly Goes Dutch

The murder rate is still shockingly high, the long-awaited smoking ban includes gaping exemptions, and a former councilman was convicted of bribery, fraud and money […]

Why they're playing bocce at the People Paper

Occasionally these days, Daily News staffers wander past a vacant portion of the paper’s increasingly vacant newsroom and say, “You know, this would make a […]

The Snapshot: In Plane Sight

Who: Jared Alexa. What: Flying a Piper J3 Cub. Where: Somewhere above Wildwood. Why: Alexa flies for Paramount Air Service, one of the region’s best-known […]

Donovan McNabb’s feud with receiver Terrell Owens has called everything — his play, his character, even his blackness — into question. Can he handle being our quarterback?

Donovan McNabb’s feud with receiver Terrell Owens has called everything — his play, his character, even his blackness — into question. Can he handle being […]


Best of Philly 2022: City Life

Best of Philly 2022: City Life

A gaming whiz kid, good sports, and how Questlove always keeps his cool.

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?


From the Editor August 2006

Thirty-two years ago, this magazine, with our sister publication Boston, introduced readers to the “Best Of” format. Back then, it was called “Best (and Worst) […]

Ed Rendell was dead in the water five months ago. Now it appears he’s a shoo-in to get reelected, and there are whispers about a VP or even a presidential run in ’08. What happened?

Governor Comeback

Exit Interview: Elizabeth Banks

Chatting up Hollywood starlets is an occupational hazard for Exit Interview. Yet Penn grad Elizabeth Banks made us feel like it was the eighth-grade dance […]

There probably are some people out there who can’t get laid at the Jersey Shore. I just haven’t found them yet

There probably are some people out there who can’t get laid at the Jersey Shore. I just haven’t found them yet

Local nonprofits always seem to be crying for money. So why do they pay their executives so damn much?

Dialing for Dollars

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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.


Lisa Scottoline is writing her 14th page-turner, so she knows a few tricks, and they aren’t what you think they are

Anatomy of a Beach Read

The Good Life: Obsession March 2006

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Tiffany Opens at The Pier

Frank Gehry’s all-new, architecturally stunning jewelry will be among the gleaming attractions at the opening of Tiffany & Co’s youngest shop yet, at (you guessed […]

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