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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 […]
The Last Mouthpiece
YOUR EYE LEAPS to it the instant you enter the room. You’re tempted to blink hard, just to be sure it’s really there. But it […]
20 Made-To-Order Weekends
In search of ideal autumn weekends, we packed up and tried out the luxe-est inns and newest spas, plus urban hot spots and outdoor treks. […]
Meet the New Doc. Same as the Old Doc?
I’m searching for the good Johnny Doc, the one he wants me to find. The new one. And here he is, in plain sight, on […]
“It Was So Fascinating! Here They Were, in My Little House in the Suburbs, Trying to Plan a Murder!”
WE’RE IN NASHVILLE, trust me, just not that Nashville, not the sequin-knockered bosom of country music and home of the Grand Ole Opry — and […]
Catholics in Crisis: Sex and Deception in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
"Is this true?" In February, at a hastily convened meeting of Catholic Church lawyers and administrators in Center City, that was the first question Cardinal […]
What Philly Women Need (By Philly Women)
Philly has been a man’s town for too long. And hey, not to point fingers or anything, but maybe that’s exactly what’s wrong with this […]
20 Weekends
In search of ideal autumn weekends, we packed up and tried out the luxe-est inns and newest spas, plus urban hot spots and outdoor treks. […]
The Kingdom and the Power of Johnny Doc
Johnny Doc is as literal as they come. He’s a union boss, with a union boss’s brick-and-mortar vocab. His speeches are latticed with I-beams of […]
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, […]
Features: The Sound of Muti
"YOU KNOW, I’VE DONE ALL the opera stars who come through this town, a lot of the musicians. I see the differences between personalities. And […]