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What 25 Years of Teaching Our Kids Has Taught America’s Teacher of the Year Leon Smith

After a quarter century at Haverford High, 2026’s National Teacher of the Year Leon Smith shares what he’s learned about connection, critical thinking, and helping young people see what they’re capable of.


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The Biggest Game in Town: Inside the Eagles Media-Industrial Complex

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A Center City Kid Remembers the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum

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Dear AT Frenchies, You Had Us at “Geaux Birds!”

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Which salons do Philly’s African-American news anchors — like Renee Chenault-Fattah and Lisa Thomas-Laury — go to? I want to cut my ethnic, relaxed hair into long layers.
— Maxine, Blackwood, NJ

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Travel: Travel With a Passion: Kennebunkport, ME

* What to do Elevate your culinary skills at the White Barn Inn’s cooking class getaway from November 4th through 6th. Chef Jonathan Cartwright hosts […]

Travel: Travel With a Passion: Hudson River Valley, NY

* What To do The Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor sculpture garden 60 miles north of New York City with a permanent […]


Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.


Travel: Travel With a Passion: Cooperstown, NY

* What to see Up in Last of the Mohicans country, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (above) waxes both poetic and playful […]

Travel: Travel With a Passion: Charlottesville, VA

* What to do Thomas Jefferson’s neoclassical home, Monticello, is as historically fascinating as it is architecturally significant: Its dome and columns, of course, are […]

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 […]

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.


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 […]

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 […]

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