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Features: 50 Meals Under $50
When Stephen Starr opened Buddakan in New York, Philadelphians were in for sticker shock: Dinner at the version in the Meatpacking District is cheaper than […]
The World’s a Twisted Place. Thank God We’ll Always Have Mister Softee
It’s an early spring afternoon in West Oak Lane, and I’m about to get ice-cream-man lessons from Morad Khalil, a Mister Softee franchisee who’s been […]
The Ghosts of Broad Street
The Big B was at least five stories high, ruby by day, aglow at night, so you could see it from miles away, bright and […]
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 […]
Just Your Average Politician
IT’S THE MORNING of Martin Luther King Day, and Congressman Chaka Fattah is standing in the back of the field house at Saint Joseph’s University, […]
Arrivederci, South Philly
THERE IS NOTHING about Route 42 South, a nondescript stretch of freeway connecting the Walt Whitman Bridge to South Jersey, that says Rota. The same […]
Wyeths World
SPANNING THE BRANDYWINE River, where Pennsylvania and Delaware meet, there’s a bridge to an imagined place. [sidebar]The bridge looks as you might expect: It’s a […]
The Last Union Town
FRANK KEEL RECENTLY placed an enormous hand on a hallway wall in City Hall. The broad-shouldered spokesman for Philadelphia’s electricians union grimaced, and literally leaned […]
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 […]
How Did Michael Strange Really Die in Afghanistan?
Charlie Strange in a rest-stop parking lot at dawn, trying not to cry. Charlie somewhere in Maryland, a few hundred feet from I-95, lighting a […]
239 Best Dishes to Eat in Philly
SCORE A SNEAK PEEK AT THE HIGHLIGHTS HERE! Here’s the problem with having an increasingly rich food scene like ours: It’s hard to know what […]
Thing of Beauty
HUGH DOWNS TURNS TO FACE the camera and reads a teaser for the next segment of the January 6, 1983, edition of 20-20. "Well, next," […]
The Year of the Bull
In the beginning, this was supposed to be Maury Levy’s story. Or, at least the idea of his doing a story on Frank Rizzo’s first […]