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The city has made the national news far too often recently for incidents involving crime and public safety. A new administration has big plans to change — and correct — the narrative.

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Jerry Mondesire doesn't want Chaka Fattah to be Philly's next mayor. Jerry Mondesire says he has “explosive” information to reveal. What, exactly, is Jerry Mondesire's problem?

Jerome Whyatt Mondesire's latest crusade began one day last winter. Mondesire, head of the local NAACP, was smoking an afternoon cigar as he read John […]

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

“He was trying to figure out some scheme, some set of hookups,” says Norwood's longtime confidant. It occupied him 24/7. He would sit at the […]

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Gay marriage debates? Rebuilding Iraq? The Constitution Center's new boss wants it to be more than a musty museum Journalist Rick Stengel has spent his […]

If Barack Obama can do it, why not the Mayor?

Just about the most interesting question you can ask someone in Philadelphia politics these days is what John Street will do once he leaves City […]

To keep your relationship going in the right direction, follow our lead: Head south

The key to any good relationship, I discovered recently, is learning to rub each other in just the right way. At least, that's what I […]

For nearly 30 years, you've invited him into your living room. But you don't know the real Jim Gardner at all

If this story was about Cecily Tynan, weather-hottie extraordinaire, we'd discuss the marathon she runs every morning before checking her Doppler, and probably try to […]

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?

From the 1940s until 2001, Old Original Bookbinder's at 2nd and Walnut was the city's swinging-est scene restaurant. Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Rizzo, Leonard Tose, Japanese tourists — and, oddly, David Bowie — drank, dined and schmoozed

Bookbinder's was born in 1893, a family-run tavern that over the next century grew into a sprawling 54,000-square-foot structure that took up most of Walnut […]

    

I don't know if I've ever seen so much handwringing among my brethren in the mainstream media. People aren't reading. Newspaper circulation is crumbling. Bloggers […]

LABOR PLAY

In addition to the usual phone-banking and leafleting, Philly union boss John Dougherty is hoping to bring a little silver-screen magic to labor's pre-election outreach. […]

Why the press didn't out James McGreevey

Judging by the shock-and-awe reactions of folks in bars and restaurants across the country, James McGreevey's revelation in August — “I am a gay American” […]

In a quest to find the best, our man devoured more than four dozen cheesesteaks in 34 days. The winner? Find it below. The loser? His digestive tract.

Among the scores of Best of Philly winners, perhaps the most coveted title is “Best Cheesesteak.” For better or worse, the cheesesteak is inexorably linked […]

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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.

 

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Having decimated the local competition (and built a house that's bigger than Bill Gates's), Vernon Hill is now preparing to invade Manhattan. Beware the Commerce Bank hordes!

They're shimmying into the Tweeter Center arena now, 5,000 strong, drinks in hand, silver New Year's hats emblazoned with wow! atop their heads, while the […]

se of e-mail by older Americans has risen 46 percent from 18 months ago and 20 percent in the last six months.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More older adults are entering cyberspace — primarily for e-mail, according to a semi-annual report from United Business Media's (UBM.L) Mediamark […]

 

The photo on page 87 that opens “Price Anxiety,” this year's real estate package, is very telling indeed. It's of a guy, supine on a […]

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