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My daughter can't wait to leave her small town in the dust. Well, duh.

It's a steaming summer night, and we're driving home from the swim club, haze heavy in the air, heat lightning in the distance. We sit […]

If you take your fitness instruction personally, here are five private trainers who won't let you down — or off easy

Gerald “Chris” Christopher Wayne Gym, 214 North Aberdeen Avenue, 2nd floor rear, Wayne; 267-688-7844 Why: With trainers, as with so much else, personality does matter. […]

Secrecy. Misinformation. Retaliation. you might expect some rogue business to be run this way — but not one of the nation's top public radio stations.

To hear current and former WBUR employees tell the story of Jane Christo's reign as the public radio station's general manager, you'd think she was […]

Inquirer sportswriter Stephen A. Smith is making it big on TV, thanks to his confrontational style, an oversize ego, and a hip-hop swagger that carries over off-camera. And while he’s at it, Smith is changing the way we talk sports

Though you'd never know it, minutes before the 2004 NBA draft, on the floor of Madison Square Garden, the only person as tense as the […]

Northeast Native Paul Fishbein brought order to the chaotic underworld of porn and became a millionaire by treating sex on videotape like any other business. If the line between his home and office is blurring, well, maybe that isn't such a bad thing

Inside an anonymous one-story warehouse, Paul Fishbein wanders into a dim, musty cave of a room. It's connected to a smaller antechamber with a canopied […]

Let's get some respectable people running elections — like casino executives

The Philadelphia mayor's race was a close one in 1999, and next month's rematch between John Street and Sam Katz promises to be just as […]


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?


Just as soon as I have a minute, I'm going to sit down and think about getting my son on Ritalin

I'm standing at the back door with the dog on his leash, waiting for my son. I spend much of my life waiting for my […]

The many layers and ever-shifting moods of Paul Pierce, Boston's most enigmatic sports star.

On Friday night in the Boston Celtics locker room, Paul Pierce is looking splendid in baller chic. Twenty minutes after an easy home win, he […]

Ken Chandler wants to turn the Herald into the anti-Globe. His plan might be just crazy enough to work — that is, if he can get his own reporters to buy into it.

Every weekday at 3 o'clock, Ken Chandler, the top editor at the Boston Herald, sits down with his deputies to plot the contents of the […]

One day early this summer, a multimillionaire sneaked past his wife and four kids, drove to Albert Einstein Medical Center, and donated one of his kidneys to a total stranger. Now he's making noises about donating his second kidney as well. Should Ze

After word got out that one of Philadelphia's most eccentric millionaires, Zell Kravinsky, had donated a kidney to a random stranger, a reporter at one […]

Bank of America signs finally go up this month on former Fleet branches, marking the last chapter in what critics say is a saga of broken promises.

Money has many uses . Among other things, it can buy cooperation. It can buy loyalty. It can buy silence. Early this year, North Carolina-based […]

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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.


Why Coke should cost twice as much as Diet Coke

For Tastykake, Coca-Cola, and all the other pushers of stuff too tasty to put down, the future is looking darker than a Ho-Ho. Junk food […]

It’s A Hard Knox Life

Ask businessman Tom Knox (right) who he likes in the 2007 mayoral race, and he says, simply, “Well, I like me.” And why not? Knox […]

WHAT’S ON YOUR IPOD, JOHN STREET?

The gadget-obsessed mayor — who has been criticized for fiddling with his Blackberry during meetings — has purchased one of the digital-music players and loaded […]

William Norwood became famous by taking risks other doctors wouldn't dare — and saved thousands of lives along the way. Now, babies have died on his watch, he' been fired, and lawyers are circling. A medical tragedy

Give him a pencil and a pad of paper, and William Norwood can explain the universe. He'll show you why a circle is perfectly round. […]

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