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50 Years of Best of Philly: City Life

In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Best of Philly this August, we’re taking a monthly look back. This month: City Life!

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I Don’t Know Who Anybody Is Anymore. And I Don’t Care

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The Great Name Awakening: Inside the Audacious, Lucrative World of Baby Naming

Latest Stories

I want my kids to grow up brave, courageous and bold. And their role model for that would be …

A few weeks back, my husband went to get his photo taken for his driver’s license renewal. He came home with a booklet: Pennsylvania Driver’s […]

Zack Stalberg can’t clean up City Hall until he cleans out the Committee of Seventy

Late February offered a single bright moment during what was an otherwise embarrassing week for the city. While TV news played wiretaps of the Mayor’s […]

Exit Interview: Peter Boyle

Exit Interview: Do you still have family here? Peter Boyle: I have friends there, but I’ve lived in New York since 1960. EI: I understand […]

Desperate customers calling at 4 a.m.? Hundred-thousand-dollar fur sprees? Chanel jewel-encrusted sandals and $2,700 Gucci handbags? At Neiman Marcus, King of Prussia’s monument to luxury, the top salespeople earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year — and they work for it

Linda Chodorow is frowning at an $880 Yves St. Laurent camel-and-red silk top, which in size 38 is not sitting exactly the way it should […]

Marisa Weiss, founder of breastcancer.org, is spreading the word: Doctors need to rediscover their “sacred bond” with patients

As is often the case, but rarely with doctors, you know things are about to get interesting when Marisa Weiss, M.D., takes off her pants. […]

Arby's! NASCAR! South Jersey! It's a white-trash bonanza this month as we chat with anchorman Brian Williams, who covered the Garden State for WCAU-TV (Channel 10) in the '80s before going network and succeeding Tom Brokaw in the NBC Nightl

Exit Interview: What are your memories from the WCAU days? Brian Williams: Any visit to Jim’s Steaks or Tacconelli’s or DiNardo’s. I covered Jersey. I […]

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?

My Philadelphia Story: Ramona Africa

My friends call me Mona. I was a Temple political science major, intending to go to law school, when I met John Africa, the founder […]

Features: Training Sam

Now this is parenting: I am driving Sam, my 15-year-old son, to his regular workout at Summit Sports Training Center in Bryn Mawr, one raw […]

Features: The Secret Life of Your Teen

She was walking across the sand, marching over the dunes of Avalon last summer, when she saw him. Them. Er, it. It involved Ethan, her […]

Fashion: Boyds Meets Girl

This month, “Boyds, The Men’s Store,” as the luxury gentlemen’s clothier on Chestnut Street has come to be known, will fade from memory like an […]

Is Bigger Really Better?

It’s the heated white onyx tiles that really get me. I’m only halfway through a February afternoon tour of 530 Fishers Road in Bryn Mawr, […]

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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.

How to Live Small

When Michael Green and Pete Palac were looking for an architect to renovate their 80-year-old brick bungalow in Frenchtown, just north of Lambertville, they had […]

Size matters: How to Live Large

When you walk into Georgeann and Roger Ballou’s vast ­circa-1810 Society Hill townhouse — some 7,500 square feet, with ceilings scaled for Shaquille O’Neal, and […]

Lord of the Barflies

On “Episode 17: Altercations” of The Real World: Philadelphia, cast member Melanie makes a plea to the Real Worlders that will resonate with any human […]

Power: The Importance of Being Ernie

Ernie Preate isn’t what he used to be. Old Ernie was a hardboiled pol. All about ambition. All about Ernie. All about his campaign du […]

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