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Single in Philly: Are You There, Waffles? Its Me, Christy
I’M LATE FOR the matchmaker. It’s only five minutes past the time we said we’d meet at a coffee shop in Center City, but every […]
The Hottest Philadelphia City Neighborhoods
Graduate Hospital Cooler and cheaper than Rittenhouse, G-Ho’s the new go-to for youngish buyers planting roots in Philly. Median home price: $285,500 Increase in number of […]
Feature: Is West Philly the Next Center City?
Over the distance of a little more than a dozen blocks, John Fry has guided his immaculate, country-club-ready Land Rover from a cute, leafy street […]
Inside the Mind of a Genius?
Phillies manager, Charlie Manuel, has kept a bad reputation with fans and media, but do his players feel the same? Sunrise was still an hour […]
Governor Comeback
Ed Rendell was dead in the water five months ago. Now it appears he’s a shoo-in to get reelected, and there are whispers about a […]
What Is Going On at the Chester County SPCA?
The allegations were shocking: mass killings of dogs, sadists abusing innocent creatures, maimed and ill animals suffering in squalor. They surfaced repeatedly on Facebook, on […]
Meet Mike Newall, Poet Laureate of the Opioid Epidemic
Mike Newall, the Philadelphia Inquirer metro columnist, is 40 years old, Irish, Catholic and intense. He is pleasant and kind but doesn’t often laugh; he […]
Inside YaFavTrashman’s Meteoric Rise From Mild-Mannered Sanitation Worker to Garbage Superhero
It’s a glorious Saturday morning in May, and Terrill Haigler, dressed in a gray knit cap, a black work jumpsuit emblazoned with a stylized cartoon […]
What Happens When a Startup Brain Decides to Focus on the Philly School System?
A great many of the emails Bob Moul sends are time-stamped between four and five in the morning, a detail that makes you feel like […]
This Is Not a Dallas Cowboys Fan
Booooooo! To outsiders, that sound is a war cry, a clarion call for action, a howl of barbarism. For Philadelphia sports fans like me, the […]
Philadelphia is Ori Feibush’s World, We Just Live In It
It’s 10 to six on a Saturday night, and Ori Feibush and I are stuck in traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike. “Don’t quote my […]
Gossip Guy: The Life and Times of the Daily News’ Dan Gross
“My man, can we get an escort? I got VIPs,” Big Penny tells the cops in the lanenext to us on Broad Street. Seconds later, […]
And Starring Michael Smerconish, as Himself
MICHAEL SMERCONISH IS on the toilet. It should be noted here that Michael Smerconish is not actually on the toilet, as in sitting on the […]
Mike vs. Mike
ON THE 346TH day of his administration, in the second minute of his appearance at the Kingsessing Recreation Center, Mayor Michael Nutter was heckled. And […]
Wrongful Death
On Monday, March 23, 2009, just after midnight, a young lawyer named Zachary Glaser was working late when he received a text message from a […]