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Why Do We Care So Much?
Paul Campise is 76 years old, a retired court reporter who lives on Main Street in Moorestown, with a summer place on Long Beach Island. […]
35 Concerts You Can’t Miss This Fall in Philly
The papal madness with all its barricades, Port A Potties and security pat-downs is behind us now, so let’s plan some fall fun. We’ve put […]
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 […]
The Charges Against District Attorney Seth Williams
“You’ve got me fucking all the women in the office.” Those are close to the first words out of Seth Williams’s mouth when I meet […]
Lew Blum, the Tow-Truck King Philly Loves to Hate, Needs a Hug
Up until September 22, 2015, it was Lew Blum’s world; we just parked in it. From behind the steel-reinforced walls of his fortified bunker in […]
How Michael Rubin, Meek Mill’s Billionaire Bestie, Got Woke
“Did you see what’s on his phone? That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.” Michael Rubin is wrestling with Joel Embiid in a losing […]
The Untold Tale of Cosmo DiNardo’s Descent Into Murder and Madness
In the middle of a murder rampage, Cosmo DiNardo had an appointment to see his psychiatrist. So on the afternoon of July 6, 2017, 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 Ugly Philly-Centric Feud at the Center of America’s 250th Birthday Celebration
Independence Hall. A glorious spring day. Enthused parents and less-enthused teenagers march around, gazing up at the bronze statue of Commodore John Barry, his outstretched […]
How Philly Stacks Up to Other Cities — in Practically Everything
Research assistance by Samantha Spengler. Yes, yes, we are the best city in the world. No doubt about it. Who else has Ben Franklin? Bryce […]
Wilmington Is Becoming the It City Next Door
The bar is three or even four people deep, making it tough to get through the door. Inside, millennials and boomers alike are sipping fancy […]
When the Ocean Met the Bay: 10 Years Later, an Oral History of Superstorm Sandy
Two weeks before it became the costliest, most destructive storm ever to hit the northeastern coast of the United States, Sandy was just a nameless […]
Did LaFaye Gaskins Really Murder Albert Dodson?
LaFaye Gaskins, inmate number BF8329, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, a two-hour drive northwest of […]
How Much Turmoil Can Temple University Take?
It was a momentous day at Temple University. Jason Wingard, the first Black president in the school’s 138-year history, was being inaugurated. Owing to the […]
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 […]