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Where to Eat at the Jersey Shore: The Ultimate Guide
Everyone has their Shore town. Everyone has their favorite places, their secret loves, those summer-after-summer memories of ice cream or crabs or pizza that keep […]
The Raging Silence
In North Philadelphia, the cost of speaking out against violence might be your life. But keeping quiet has a steep price, too. Something strange in […]
Features: Mystery at Rohm & Haas
There is good science, and there is bad science. The distance between the two is an infinitesimal divide. THERE IS GOOD science, and there is […]
The Mystery of Lê From Hop Sing Laundromat
Hey, Buddy … I can see Lê on Market Street, pulling stuff out of the passenger seat of his BMW convertible. Mail, packages, receipts, a […]
Best of the Shore: June 2006
LBI Surfing Holyoke Avenue and the beach, Holgate. Don’t come to Holyoke Avenue if you’re a kook who’s still perfecting his pop-up. This stretch of […]
The Great Name Awakening: Inside the Audacious, Lucrative World of Baby Naming
It’s a random Tuesday night, and my husband, Christian, and I are doing what we typically do: bingeing a TV series du jour as we […]
Weekend Roundup
Friday, May 4 Equality Forum continues today with the National Legal Panel (4 p.m.) and National Politics Panel (5:30 p.m.) at the National Constitution Center. […]
The Trouble With Harry Jay Katz
It’s a sultry summer evening, and the pulse of Philadelphia night life is flat-lining. By dusk on this Monday, most of the dwellers of America’s […]
Generational Poverty: Trying to Solve Philly’s Most Enduring Problem
Mattie McQueen was about five years old when her mother offered a surprise: “Let’s all go for ice cream.” McQueen and three of her siblings […]
Features: The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter: Part 2
THE AUTOPSY REPORT was sent to the Commission, through the Secret Service, on December 20th. The Commission based its conclusions about the characteristics of Kennedy’s […]
An A.I. Expert Came to Town and Said We’re All Going to Die
After speaking with many top artificial intelligence (AI) experts from all over the world, John Sherman believes humankind could be completely wiped out in two […]
Ed Rendell Still Has a Few Things to Say
I begin to get, more than anything, worried. I’ve been waiting outside Ed Rendell’s small stone Tudor in East Falls for him to answer the […]
An Oral History of Arlen Specter
Raised in Russell, Kansas — the prairie outpost that also gave the world Bob Dole — and schooled at Penn and Yale, Arlen Specter first […]
The Opioid Crisis Is Worsening Homelessness in Philly. Solving the Problem Is a Matter of Survival
It’s another perfectly shitty day to be homeless in Philadelphia. Cold, wet and pitiless. T.S. Eliot famously said that April is the cruelest month, but […]
Paul Martino’s Audacious Plan to Disrupt the Republican Party
I start with a problem — a problem we all share in one way or another. I told a friend I was working on a […]