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City Life

Dear Josh Shapiro: Now That You Have the Votes, Here’s Our Wish List

Eight issues we’d like to see Pennsylvania tackle now that Democrats control Harrisburg.


Things to Do

Thanksgiving Who? Dilworth Park’s Skating Rink and Holiday Market Open This Week

Restaurants

Drink Wine With Dinosaurs at This After-Hours Museum Tour

Be Well Philly

How I Got Through My Cancer Scare

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Be Well Philly

Philly Fitness Pros’ Holiday Wish Lists

Gift them or ask for them

Restaurants

Weekend

Friday Yards Brewing is hosting tours this afternoon. Ditch the shopping and check out the tasting room and tour. Varga Bar has some Black Friday […]

Restaurants

Foobooz Gets In on Black Friday

For this holiday season Foobooz is getting in on the shopping fun. Much as we bring you the best news on the web regarding food […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Bride-to-be Jennifer: “Single” Holidays

Celebrating and remembering them.

City Life

Straight Guide to Buying Gifts for Gay Friends

Jennifer Lea Cohan explains it all for you

City Life

We never thought we’d see the day. Here, ex-Mayor John Street opens up to his onetime 
nemesis (and almost-maybe mayor) about his legacy, his distrust of the media, and why he thinks Michael Nutter is pretty much the Worst. Mayor. Ever.

  You must see some redeeming qualities.He’s a classic case of the Peter Principle at work: In the large-organization hierarchy, employees rise to their level […]


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Welcome to Philly’s Italian Renaissance

Welcome to Philly’s Italian Renaissance

Red gravy was just the beginning.

50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia

50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia

Our highly anticipated guide to the most exciting, compelling, and provocative restaurants in Philly


City Life

Stuff you can’t miss this month.

HOLIDAYSThe Vienna Boys Choir (12/3), the Orchestra doing Messiah (12/19), and Peter Nero Christmas-popping (12/4-22) at the Kimmel we get, but Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen […]

City Life

Opinionated 70-year-old proprietor, Geno’s Steaks

Cheesesteak order: Provolone with. Not wit’. We use the word “with” at Geno’s. Ingredients in Cheez Whiz: No idea. Never ate it. Chinese or pizza: […]

City Life

Staying optimistic through the holiday season

During the Christmas holidays, I always seem to think about the year that has just passed and take stock of just where we are. I’m […]

City Life

Rites of December

These shopping traditions make us glad Philadelphia is home for the holidays.

City Life

Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s conquest of 13th Street is complete

  There were troughs between Barbuzzo’s high swells. A more aggressively flavored pizza — broccoli rabe, pickled hot peppers, a house-made fennel sausage that gives […]

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The Best Fall Festivals to Check Out This Season in Philly

The Best Fall Festivals to Check Out This Season in Philly

Mark your calendars to celebrate, eat, and explore your way through Philly.

Best of Philly 2026

Best of Philly 2026

Please give a warm welcome to Best of Philly 2026: Everything you want, didn’t know you needed, and should check out in Philadelphia right now.


City Life

Keep it shiny this season.

Required dressing this holiday season: glitter, spangles, crystal, gleam — the wearable equivalent of  the Academy chandelier.

City Life

One night last June, Sabina Rose O’Donnell, a popular young waitress heading home in Northern Liberties, was dragged from her bike, raped, and murdered. An 18-year-old man who lived 10 blocks away, in North Philadelphia, confessed. The media portrayed her killing as random. Given the way the city is changing, it may be anything but.

  In many ways, blaming depravity and chance offers its own kind of reassurance. Middle-class whites expect impoverished blacks to act out through violence in […]

City Life

The guys behind the Franklin Fountain open Shane Confectionary

Where have all the candy stores gone? We’re talking about magical shops brimming with colorful confections of all shapes and sizes  —  Sky Bars, root […]

City Life

Toto Schiavone brings rustic Italian cooking to Blue Bell

It sounds like a task Donald Trump would dream up for the Apprentice contestant everyone hates: Rent a storefront in a strip mall whose street […]

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