Welcome to this, the seventh installment of the Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz. We’ve made it all the way up to the Civil War, aka […]
Welcome to Month 6 of our Semiquincentennial Quiz! Hope you’ve enjoyed playing along so far. This time, we examine how the city established its “Workshop […]
Yes, of course you know, we know, everyone knows. Philadelphia gave democracy to this nation — the Declaration, the Constitution, the whole grand, unruly American […]
Listen to the audio edition here: This is it? On a lovely morning in early spring I’m standing on 3rd Street in Society Hill, staring […]
UPDATE: City Council has adopted a resolution to make May 21st Philadelphia’s official Ona Judge Day. Thanks to our friends at Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, […]
Listen to the audio edition here: When, on January 22nd, National Park Service workers unceremoniously crowbarred the slavery-memorial panels off the walls of the President’s […]
The name Aloysius, of Latin origin, means “famous warrior.” And so it was suitable, on December 28, 1998, that a funeral befitting a champion took […]
On a Tuesday in late June, we gathered six distinguished local educators (meet the panel) in our offices in the Curtis building, just off Independence […]
Back when I was in college, a good friend started dating a German guy. He was from a small town in Bavaria and owned lederhosen […]
When I reached out to Philadelphia journalism legend Linn Washington Jr. to ask if he would moderate a discussion about how — in the continuing […]
Benjamin Franklin didn’t coin the phrase that nothing can be certain but death and taxes. Other writers said it first. But out of anyone, he, […]
It’s a muggy mid-September Sunday, and kayakers and vacationing families are taking in the calm waters of Mauch Chunk Lake, a small reservoir in the […]
Just in time for Halloween, Haverford’s Brookline Books has published Dark History of Penn’s Woods, a new book with the catchy subtitle Murder, Madness, and […]
We asked Monument Lab’s Paul Farber to pick five especially meaningful monumental places in Philly. The President’s House Opened in 2010, it shows where George […]
So every once in a while, Philly’s peculiar linguistics bubble up into the cultural conversation. It could be when Bryce Harper wears his “Clearwooder” t-shirt. […]
