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Ben Kirshner’s Plan to Transform How Pennsylvania Does Business

Pennsylvania is a notoriously tough place to start or run a business. Can the first guy to sell coffee on the internet fix that? The governor sure thinks so.


Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks and Grace Kelly all made memorable moments in Philadelphia Oscars history (photos via Getty Images)
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Great (and Not So Great) Moments in Philly Oscars History

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Inside Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Wild Ride From Mount Airy to the Oscars

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Jason Kelce Retires After 13 Seasons

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The 10 Coolest Events

1. Sports Recreation Schuylkill Banks river kayak tours Get a good look at the Schuylkill River — one that’s a little different from the view […]

Five reasons why Olympic – haters should learn to love a Philly bid

1. May be the only thing big enough, ever, to force SEPTA to improve its service and infrastructure. 2. Many of the physical amenities — […]

How the Birds match up … on the Web

Eagles Eyed

The Culture Wars come to Cherry Hill?

Lou Dobbs Wouldn't Understand

Philadelphian to Watch: July

WHO: Lobbyist/political operative Michael Karloutsos, 35, who, after running Paul Vallas’s unsuccessful campaign for governor of Illinois, moved to town to work with Vallas on […]

How Rocky is like the Eiffel Tower

The city’s recent proposal to return the eight-foot-six-inch bronze Rocky statue that once stood outside the Spectrum — given to Philadelphia by Sly Stallone upon […]


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?


The Snapshot: Pitchmen

WHERE: The Phillies’ bullpen, Citizens Bank Park. WHO: Brett Myers throwing warm-ups to catcher Carlos Ruiz. HOW THE BULLPEN IS LIKE A PRISON CELL: Lack […]

On the Street: Pant Patrol

We may have to twiddle our thumbs forever till that no-smoking law officially goes through, but in the meantime, we’re instituting an all-out Bad Pants […]

402 South 20th Street; 215 – 545 – 5559

After running a Hoboken boutique for 11 years, Philly native Michele Giunta Cimillo is back in town with a new, ¬shoebox-sized home-and-child store. She’s named […]

Off the Cuff July 2006

Every morning before I drive from Margate to Philadelphia, I have a compulsion to glance through the Atlantic City Press, which chronicles almost daily the […]

John J. Dougherty Jr. runs the city’s powerful electricians union. Now, he wants to be mayor. In fact, he wants to be the second coming of Frank Rizzo. But most people want him to just go away

I Sing the Buddy Electric

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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.


From the Editor July 2006

My father met Frank Rizzo a handful of times, at crowded cocktail parties or Bookbinder’s or Phillies games. Each time, the same dynamic took place. […]

Exit Interview: Gay Talese

In his latest book, A Writer’s Life, literary titan Gay Talese describes growing up in Ocean City — among many, many other things. And much […]

This month, smart, stylish Penn president Amy Gutmann unveils a bold plan to link her campus with Center City. It should keep critics on both sides of the Schuylkill quiet (for now, at least)

Amy Aims East

If liberals and conservatives both think eminent domain isn’t the way to save New Jersey’s poorest city, you know it’s the right thing to do

Tear Down Camden!

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