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Ben Kirshner’s Plan to Transform How Pennsylvania Does Business

Pennsylvania is a notoriously tough place to start or run a business. Can the first guy to sell coffee on the internet fix that? The governor sure thinks so.


Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks and Grace Kelly all made memorable moments in Philadelphia Oscars history (photos via Getty Images)
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Great (and Not So Great) Moments in Philly Oscars History

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Inside Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Wild Ride From Mount Airy to the Oscars

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Jason Kelce Retires After 13 Seasons

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Homefront: No Buoys Allowed

Forget lighthouse-shaped soap dispensers and other beach kitsch. Adding seaside flair to your home can be easy with the right accent pieces—just take a look […]

Homefront: Shopping Ambler

When the renovated Ambler Theatre reopened in 2003, it brought a flood of new shops and restaurants to Butler Avenue and Main Street. These days, […]

Bridal Bouquet: Operation Buff Bride

Your wedding is approaching and you want to look your best, not just to make your pictures look pretty, but also to feel good about […]

How to get your mitts on the city’s restaurant reports

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The Snapshot: Boat People

Who: Saint Joseph’s University men’s heavyweight varsity eight crew squad. Where: The Schuylkill River. When: 6:31 a.m. Why: On May 12th and 13th, the St. […]

Long before the shooting started, a Montgomery County community saw it coming: a driven sports family headed for disaster. So why didn’t anybody try to stop it?

The first sign of life at 30 Greenleaf Circle came early, on that particular day last summer, when a man stepped out the front door […]


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?


With local airwaves in a state of disarray, can WMMR’s Preston and Steve continue their improbable rise to ratings dominance? Gadzooks!

Preston Elliot is very concerned about his dominatrix. She's scheduled to arrive within the hour, along with a slave affectionately dubbed Carpet Boy. Preston wants […]

From the Editor May 2006

Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson has to go. Now. The TV was on for background noise while I was reviewing a draft of this issue’s cover […]

The Internet is the perfect way to make public information actually public. Well, everywhere but in Philly, that is

Like most members of the MySpace.com generation, Joshua B. Plotkin thinks that anything worth telling is worth telling online. Plotkin is a 30-year-old assistant professor […]

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Ask Jessica

Testing Shopping Noteworthys

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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.


A.C. Now: Dining

We’ve tackled serious steakhouses, explored tucked-away noodle bars, waited in lines at down-home joints, and sunk into booths at posh casino eateries. We’ve tackled serious […]

A.C. Now: Main Tease

The Raw Alternative

How cheap real estate, creative minds and a scrappy attitude are turning Philadelphia into a happening art town

The Philly School

Ralph J. Roberts: My Philadelphia Story

I have about 92 bow ties. Maybe 10 years ago, somebody gave me one. It looked kind of interesting, so I got another one. So […]

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