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The Real Tom Knox
He’s the man to beat in the mayor’s race. Unfortunately, the crusading outsider Tom Knox plays on TV bears little resemblance to the connected insider […]
Fracking With Pennsylvania: The Marcellus Shale Debate
Two Oscar nominees appearing on the same day. Probably a first for Honesdale High School. They’re here in the 5,000-resident seat of Wayne County at […]
What If the Philadelphia Orchestra Can’t Be Saved?
In Allison Vulgamore’s 16th-floor office at the Philadelphia Orchestra, there’s a battery-operated toy chicken that hops around singing “Ring of Fire” in Johnny Cash’s voice. […]
The Legacy
WHILE HIS OLD man worked, the Kid usually spent the day screwing up. He skipped school. He chewed tobacco in the back of class. He […]
Jailhouse Islam – The Radicals Among Us
ONE MORNING THIS past May, three men sat in a Jeep outside a Port Richmond bank and put on new identities. To Western eyes, two […]
Will This Doctor Hurt Your Baby?
A few years ago, Paul Offit found himself in a small room with a bob-haired American mother of three who was so mad at him […]
How the Always-Smiling, Always-Practicing Tyrese Maxey Became the “Absolute Key” for the Sixers
Tyrese Maxey has just thrown a basketball at Spencer Rivers. It’s a playful throw, but a throw all the same, and the ball caroms off […]
The Fight To Keep Philly’s Theater Scene Alive
Act I. Setting the Scene “What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention! First of all, when you’ve got a gun — ” […]
Jeff David Thinks the Fitler Club Is Key to Philadelphia’s Post-Pandemic Rebirth
Jeff David has a definitive list of the most influential trend-setting cities in America, and Philadelphia isn’t on it. There are what he calls the […]
The Internet Is Killing Happiness. Can We Stop It?
So, I’ll admit it: I was looking at my phone the moment my two-year-old fell off a stump at our little Fairmount playground and bashed […]
Why Are Philadelphia’s Streets So Filthy?
Every snowy week this past winter, my block in Bella Vista resembled the site of a garbage strike. Lumpy piles of trash built up day […]
How Jefferson’s Stephen Klasko Intends to Fix Our Screwed-Up Health-Care System
It’s mid-morning on a scorching late-summer day, but comfortable in a climate-controlled subterranean corridor covered in tile the shade of a ripe avocado. Stephen K. […]
Ajay Raju Profile: The Big Raju
Might as well start with the hair. “My life,” he says, “is driven by my obsession with my stupid hair.” “My wife,” he says, “hates […]
The Last Days of Bill Conlin
A year and a half ago, I flew down to Largo, Florida, and knocked on Bill Conlin’s door. It was early evening, and I couldn’t […]
Perelmans at War
WHEN YOU’RE THE matriarch of one of the most prominent and wealthy families in Philadelphia, when your penthouse on Rittenhouse Square boasts an art collection […]