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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

Beef bandits, billboard wars, an epic high school prom, and profiles of the biggest names in Philly — it’s our roundup of our favorite stories of 2025.


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How Philly Fell for Krampus — and a Darker Kind of Christmas

Longform

Youth Sports in Philadelphia Are Uneven — and the Gaps Are Growing

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The Editors’ Cut: What We’re Reading, Watching, Doing, and Liking This Week

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BOP Spotlight: Hipster Baby Boutique

Hipster Baby Boutique: Genes

Want a Makeover?

Win a Makeover!

BOP Spotlight: Make It Modern, For The Bedroom

Make It Modern, For The Bedroom: Matthew Izzo Lifestyle

The Good Life: Obsession: Backyard Art

Backyard Art

WHAT MOM WANTS

What Mom Wants

A Princeton lapidary’s prehistoric inspiration

True Gem


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.


A whole lotta strong women are coming to Philly

Women’s Lib, Version 2007

The guys who made Gnarls Barkley into the hottest musical act of 2006 think they can work the same marketing magic on an unknown 22-year-old from Chester. A slowly dying record industry sure hopes they’re right

Is This Kid About to Be a Star?

Philly offers up three tasty takes on a Catalan import

In Search of: Paella

Grin and bear it? Hah! Boomers want to keep disco-dancing till we’re 103. That means finding new ways to treat our aching elbows and hips and backs. Here’s the breaking news in pain relief

Here’s the breaking news in pain relief for baby boomers A WHILE BACK, MY RIGHT ANKLE started hurting. It hurt when I played tennis and […]

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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.