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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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A reporter calls a colleague a “bitch” and threatens to fight her. A legendary anchor gets canned after 35 years. A hunky weatherman leaves town amid an on-air lovefest. How Philly TV news cracked up and became the biggest story in town.

nd the nominees for last year's “Most Bizarre Moment in Philly TV News” are: Channel 10 anchor Sharon Reed's Internet smackdown of colleague Alicia Taylor, […]


Thirty-one years ago, this magazine pioneered the city magazine “Best Of” staple. The brainchild of editors Alan Halpern and Maury Levy, the May 1974 issue […]

Liz and Jay Scott: We were inspired by their daughter. Now we're inspired by them

Liz and Jay Scott needed to raise $5 million. They didn't have to do it. And no one would have blamed them if they decided […]

Life is sweet in an oceanfront villa near Ocho Rios

As my butlers, Gary and Amos, serve up a breakfast of fresh-cooked aki and saltfish on the patio overlooking my private beach, I’m trying to […]

For a guy who got fired from The New Republic for fabricating more than half his stories, one would think finding media work would be harder than R. Kelly landing a babysitting gig. Not for 30-year-old Penn grad Stephen Glass, who went on to write a novel

Philadelphia Magazine: Just to make sure this is the real Stephen Glass, can you confirm your e-mail address? Stephen Glass: [gives correct address] Do you […]

Students suing schools. Parents battling administrators. Teachers despising parents. How did we get here? And is there any way we can start all over again?

Once upon a time in America, hardly anybody learned the abcs. Oh, there were governesses and tutors and private academies of learning, but they were […]


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?


Rival gossip columnists Stu Bykofsky of the Daily News and Michael Klein of the Inquirer have a tough job: delivering the dish in a town devoid of celebrities. Somehow, they manage

For two months last summer, the on-location filming of JERSEY GIRL gave Philadelphia what may have been its all-time high-water mark for gossip potential. The […]

In his quest to be reelected, John Street has picked an interesting role model

On one of the many summer days on which the press shuffled into John Street's campaign headquarters to try to get the Mayor to fess […]

Students suing schools. Parents battling administrators. Teachers despising parents. How did we get here? And is there any way we can start all over again?

Once upon a time in America, hardly anybody learned the abcs. Oh, there were governesses and tutors and private academies of learning, but they were […]

What happened on a best-selling novelist's latest book tour? Jennifer Weiner reveals all–including how the Inquirer told her secret.

September 13th: Philadelphia The doctor squirts clear goop on my belly and rubs the ultrasound receiver on top of it. On the television screen, a […]

Philly Novelist Karen Quinones Miller landed a big time book contract to write a murder mystery. Instead, she ended up solving the mystery of her own family

Karen Quinones Miler was supposed to be working on the second novel in the six-figure, two-book deal she'd signed earlier in 2000 with Simon & […]

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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.


Sizing up the candidates for mayor-in 2007

Tired of the dynamics of this year's mayor's race — pro-business reformer vs. loyal politics-as-usual Democrat? Steel yourself. You're in for a replay in 2007 […]

New Inquirer Editor Walker Lundy is facing a newsroom full of whiners, a product in a tailspin, and boneheaded management above him. Is there any reason to think he'll succeed?

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“You poor bastard.” Those were the first words I heard from Walker Lundy. I'd sent him an e-mail, proposing to write about him and his […]

Can This Man Be Straight

In this Queer Eye era and this city of brotherly love, where even neighboring governors are coming out, why would one gay man try so hard to like women? For him, it's either that or going to Hell

People to Watch: The It List

EXCERPT FROM “People to Watch: The It List” November 2003 Who will be Philly's next Georges Perrier? Who has the refined Main Line taste to […]

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