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Shore regular Kelly Ripa took a break from morning talk shows and evening sitcoms to share her favorite spots — and a few choice memories.

I get back to the Jersey Shore all the time. Are you kidding? I do all the standards. I am such a Jersey Shore tourist. […]

In the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals, America's best-known business school, the place that produced Michael Milken and Frank Quattrone, is under siege. Our writer spent a year there figuring out what's going on.

The sun had just begun to set on the verdant acres of the Iroquois Springs Camp in Rock Hill, New York, and the air had […]

With almost no one noticing, New England's $20 billion higher education industry is losing its market share thanks to shrinking populations and growing competition. Now some campuses are fighting back with sophisticated marketing straight from the co

When Sandra King moved on from Northeastern University to a new job at Bentley College two years ago, she left behind the rather foggy title […]

At a Loss for Words

Last fall, four years after my sister had a malignant lump removed from her breast, she learned her cancer had spread to the bone. Fortunately, […]

Back in the nightclubbing days of Sinatra, Atlantic City was a swinging place. Then it took a decades-long nosedive into Tony Orlando and slots. But A.C. is again becoming — you ready for this? — a cool party town.

The turning point — the moment it became clear that things really were changing in Atlantic City, that the spirits of Johnny Mathis and Jerry […]

No longer the exclusive preserve of Hollywood's A-list, cosmetic dentistry has become a mainstream miracle, offering transformations ranging from whiter teeth to dramatically reshaped jaws

Donald Trump did it. So did Cindy Crawford, Chris Rock, Heidi Klum and even Martin Amis. If you're thinking cosmetic surgery, think again: Their secret […]

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?

We spent the night at 20 country inns, investigating everything from the linens to the backyard sheep. Here's a muffins-and-all compendium of where to check in .

For some, B&Bs are happy places where wine is sipped on front porches, logs are thrown onto fireplaces, and antiques are artfully placed on wide-plank […]

Heroes or hucksters, a new wave of developers have become Philadelphia's mini-mayors.

Over the past 10 years, the style of the Philadelphia developer has changed. The old cliché of the builder who vests his power and pocketbook […]

Penn's Glenn McGee, one of the best-known bioethicists in the world, tries to make sense of the most controversial issues of our day. But when he discovered the truth about his own genes, he faced the hardest question of all

Who are you? Really. What makes you who you are? Really. Is it God? Nature? Chance or science? Do you know where you come from? […]

Bob Lobel has heard the rumors. Drunk? Womanizer? No way, he says. now he's shooting back.


“Oh my god , I can just see tomorrow's headline now,” says Bob Lobel, laughing and not a bit sheepish. “I can just see it: […]

In the interest of getting you there faster — or at least with fewer hassles — we asked CBS 3's Bob Kelly for his top traffic tips.

1. Improve your timing . The worst time to be on the roads is between 2 and 7 p.m. Better to turn one vacation day […]

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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.


For media geeks like me, the news of late hasn't been heartening. In what legendary journalist Carl Bernstein has termed today's “Idiot Culture,” we're reading […]

Thanks to Howard Stern, Sal Calabro is the best-known cosmetic surgeon in America. Exactly where in the Hippocratic oath does it talk about a doctor's duty to give away breast implants during drive-time?

On any other night for Dr. Sal Calabro, hanging in the living room of his sprawling Newtown Square home overlooking the Darby Creek as it […]

The Degas show at the Art Museum and a brand-new ballet based on his voyeuristic works-is it tutu much?

Everyone knows that the Degas and the Dance exhibition opening this month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be a really big show. Thus, […]

The crusty Junior League of Philadelphia is out to win new converts to its traditions of service and cut-rate designer duds.

Back in 1996, a young woman named Tracie Jerd moved to Mount Laurel, New Jersey, with her husband and landed a job as a project […]

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