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The comedian made famous by Double Dare talks marriage, Marc Vetri, and his new off-Broadway show.
An irresistible gossipmonger, numerous near-champions, and a roadway rebuild for the ages
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?
How — and Why — I Told My Teenage Daughter About My Abortion
Sandy Hingston revisits the most difficult conversation she ever had with her daughter.
Last January, some two dozen angry black residents jammed a school board meeting in Lower Merion High School's library. They were members of Concerned Black […]
A few years ago, journalist David Brooks wrote a celebrated article for the Atlantic Monthly, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible,” in which he examined the country’s […]
In 1957, a young boy was discovered dead in the woods in Fox Chase, his head poking from a cardboard box. It would become Philly’s most famous and baffling unsolved murder. Forty-six years later, long-retired investigator Bill Kelly is still on a que
An old man sits on an aqua couch in a pink room. Soon he will visit a little boy’s grave. But first he leafs through […]
When Marie Noe was sentenced nearly two years ago, in the largest maternal infanticide case in recorded medical history, there was national outrage that the […]
The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.
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.
On D-Day, Remembering Two South Philly “Band of Brothers” Vets
The World War II adventures of two South Philly vets are being told in the Spielberg/Hanks miniseries Band of Brothers. But don’t call them heroes: “The guys that never came home are the heroes.”
Janice Woodcock, newly appointed executive director of Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission, who will try to follow in the footsteps of William Penn and Ed Bacon […]
Venues: Johnny Brenda's
