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BAD MEDICINE, GOOD PROPOSAL Nothing says “I love you” like a marriage proposal to the tune of “Bad Medicine,” so when Jon Bon Jovi launched […]

    

I don't know if I've ever seen so much handwringing among my brethren in the mainstream media. People aren't reading. Newspaper circulation is crumbling. Bloggers […]

Jerry Mondesire doesn't want Chaka Fattah to be Philly's next mayor. Jerry Mondesire says he has “explosive” information to reveal. What, exactly, is Jerry Mondesire's problem?

Jerome Whyatt Mondesire's latest crusade began one day last winter. Mondesire, head of the local NAACP, was smoking an afternoon cigar as he read John […]

It’s A Hard Knox Life

Ask businessman Tom Knox (right) who he likes in the 2007 mayoral race, and he says, simply, “Well, I like me.” And why not? Knox […]

LABOR PLAY

In addition to the usual phone-banking and leafleting, Philly union boss John Dougherty is hoping to bring a little silver-screen magic to labor's pre-election outreach. […]

WHAT’S ON YOUR IPOD, JOHN STREET?

The gadget-obsessed mayor — who has been criticized for fiddling with his Blackberry during meetings — has purchased one of the digital-music players and loaded […]

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.

If Barack Obama can do it, why not the Mayor?

Just about the most interesting question you can ask someone in Philadelphia politics these days is what John Street will do once he leaves City […]

To keep your relationship going in the right direction, follow our lead: Head south

The key to any good relationship, I discovered recently, is learning to rub each other in just the right way. At least, that's what I […]

 

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Having decimated the local competition (and built a house that's bigger than Bill Gates's), Vernon Hill is now preparing to invade Manhattan. Beware the Commerce Bank hordes!

They're shimmying into the Tweeter Center arena now, 5,000 strong, drinks in hand, silver New Year's hats emblazoned with wow! atop their heads, while the […]

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.

Sure, those Toll Brothers behemoths are tacky-oversized, ostentatious, architecturally clueless. But in a market where $400,000 won't get you past the front porch in more and more suburbs, the much maligned McMansion is suddenly starting to look like

The rich may be different from you and me, as F. Scott Fitzgerald insisted, but they still like to read in the john.This reassuring fact […]

se of e-mail by older Americans has risen 46 percent from 18 months ago and 20 percent in the last six months.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More older adults are entering cyberspace — primarily for e-mail, according to a semi-annual report from United Business Media's (UBM.L) Mediamark […]

Maybe the good news of the city's renaissance isn't all good, if it makes us into … what? Phoenix? Seattle?

A first draft of this story was sent to my two sons. One didn't respond, too busy with his movie. The other, a writer and […]

 

The photo on page 87 that opens “Price Anxiety,” this year's real estate package, is very telling indeed. It's of a guy, supine on a […]

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