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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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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?


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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.


He’s left his wife of 62 years. His kids aren’t speaking to him. He’s estranged from old friends. He’s engaged to marry his chief of staff. And despite his health problems, 82-year-old Thacher Longstreth plans to run for another City Council term

He’s left his wife of 62 years. His kids aren’t speaking to him. He’s estranged from old friends. He’s engaged to marry his chief of […]

 

I often speak to groups about what it is we do and don't do here at Philadelphia magazine. We seek to reveal the region to […]

A generation of parents determined to raise perfect children is now being confronted with anything but. What happened?

She was walking across the sand, marching over the dunes of Avalon last summer, when she saw him. Them. Er, it. It involved Ethan, her […]

Harvard President Lawrence Summers says his comments about women's innate talents (or lack thereof) were mere intellectual provocation. Women the world over disagreed. Now Summers finds himself on the defensive, while a divided university debates jus

In January of 1991, economist Lawrence Summers took a leave from his Harvard professorship and moved to Washington to work for the World Bank. His […]

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