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What Happened to Chris Rabb?

Sixteen years ago, he wrote a book touting conscious capitalism. Now he’s a Democratic Socialist hanging out with controversial podcaster Hasan Piker. Did he change — or did America?


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Exit Interview: Ed McMahon

In yet another pop-cultural coup, Exit Interview tricked, er, persuaded sweepstakes icon and sidekick extraordinaire Ed McMahon to spend some time discussing his little-known Philly […]

Can an antique-loving girl, a modernist man, two occasionally mud-encrusted boys and one cat happily co-exist? Of course they can. But can they co-decorate?

In 2002, I bought my dream house. This was after having lived in a Rittenhouse Square condo and a Bucks County cottage, and realizing that […]

We asked designers where they go to make their homes one-of-a-kind. They didn’t want to tell us, but we wormed it out of them. (We have our ways …)

Finding the house is one thing. Making it dreamy is a whole different can of paint. How do you elevate your home from fine to […]

North Philly minister and former Eagle Herb Lusk is George Bush’s favorite black man. It’s a friendship that might signal a seismic political shift: the Democrats
losing their hold on African-Americans

The Reverend Herbert Hoover Lusk II has a question. “Can I get an amen?” It’s a muggy Tuesday night in early August, and Lusk is […]

Queen Village author Jennifer Weiner — whose best-seller In Her Shoes hits the big screen this month — has fame, power, and the adulation of women everywhere. So why isn’t that enough?

IT’S THREE O’CLOCK Sunday afternoon, and Jennifer Weiner, clad in a bathing suit with the straps down — way down — is sunk into an […]

Feature: They Have No Choice

South Jersey’s most powerful political boss, Commerce Bank executive George Norcross, has a certain style: You’re either part of his machine, or you get crushed […]


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.


Top Schools: The $12,000-a-Year Preschool

Where can you find Haverford and Baldwin’s 2018 graduating classes? Sorting beads at Gladwyne Montessori, the Main Line feeder preschool. Back in March, the New […]

Dreams: Not as Crazy as You Think

A local writer’s new book, If Football’s a Religion, Why Don’t We Have a Prayer?, shows that our most obsessed sports fanatics are a little […]

Contrarian: Stupidity City

Sometimes it takes a fool to drive the dumbness out of public life Einstein once said that only two things are infinite — the universe, […]

My daughter’s found it. Have I lost it?

Just when my 16-year-old daughter was resigned to entering a convent, romance came calling, in the form of a highly engaging Latino boy exactly her […]

Exit Interview: Holly Robinson Peete

Even before she married an Eagles quarterback (Rodney Peete), Philly-born actress Holly Robinson Peete was a fan of the team, thanks to her dad, Matt […]

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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.


Wheel$ of Fortune

Three million dollars for an Oldsmobile? No wonder car collectors can’t stop talking about Penn Valley’s Alan Lewenthal A$ his celebrity sprouted this spring, Penn […]

The Shore: Beauty and the Boardwalk

You think it was crazy to take this job? The man in charge of giving Atlantic City a makeover has asked himself that question plenty […]

Contrarian: Wanted: Grays and Gays

Mayor Street spoke at a news conference recently welcoming a development team that’s building a new 500-plus-unit community along the Delaware in Tacony, of all […]

Cool: The Geater Goes Underground

Don’t ask whose idea it was to get Jerry Blavat, a.k.a. the Geator with the Heator, a.k.a. the Boss with the Hot Sauce, together with […]

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