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The Hottest Philadelphia City Neighborhoods
Graduate Hospital Cooler and cheaper than Rittenhouse, G-Ho’s the new go-to for youngish buyers planting roots in Philly. Median home price: $285,500 Increase in number of […]
Lisa Scottoline Shovels Horse Poop
My name is … Lisa Scottoline. It’s extremely Italian. And rhymes with “scallopini.” I am a … mom. I live in … the suburbs, on […]
Philadelphia Restaurant Review: The Old-School Excellence of Fork
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason anybody opens a restaurant nowadays is to work it for a year, or maybe six […]
Bad Neighbors, Nasty Notes and the Death of Idyllic Suburban Life
One of our neighbors put a nasty note on the car of someone who was visiting our house. I could not believe it. So I […]
The Hamptons: A Perfectly Luxurious Weekend Getaway
How to Get to the Hamptons from Philadelphia: It’s at least a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Philly, and there’s no getting around the often congested (but […]
City Commissioners Al Schmidt and Stephanie Singer Just Can’t Get Along
Stephanie Singer is warming to her point. For 45 minutes she has been explaining the arcane workings of elections in Philadelphia to a few dozen […]
George Norcross: The Man Who Destroyed Democracy
In a story this profane, a story about power and legacy, fathers and sons, a story in which F-bombs rain down in a kind of […]
Philadelphia Restaurant Review: The Infamous Pizza Brain
First, a confession. I don’t watch the Today show or CBS This Morning—nor do I read Qantas in-flight magazine or Jeopardy’s Twitter feed—so by the […]
Philadelphia Home: Inside Nancy Levie’s Modern Bucks County Dream Home
Even though it’s getting dark outside—in the farm-dotted, wooden-bridged pocket of Buckingham Township, just outside New Hope, there are no streetlights—I can see the house […]
The Real Chase Utley
There is much we don’t know about him. Take, for instance, an incident from the fall of 2009. Chase Utley came off the field after […]
Recap: #PHLRaceChat
[View the story “Recap: #PHLRaceChat” on Storify] Recap: #PHLRaceChat A snapshot of last night’s discussion on race at the National Constitution Center. Storified by PhiladelphiaMagazine· […]
Philly Mag to Host Discussion on Race at the Constitution Center
Following the publication of this month’s cover story “Being White in Philly,” Editor-in-Chief Tom McGrath will moderate a panel discussion called “Can We Talk About […]
Philly Weekly Spoofs Philly Mag with “Being Hot in Philly” Cover
Philly Mag’s “Being White in Philly” cover story has received a lot of angry rebuttals. Here’s the first light-hearted one, which graces the front of […]
Philly Is Becoming a Fashion Town
Welcome to our fashion-packed guide to the new, ultra-stylish Philly. We jumped, heels-first, into the fabulous world of our city’s ever-evolving style scene to bring […]
The Era of Sweatpants Has Come to An End
On an unsettlingly balmy evening this past November, Autumn Kietponglert is crammed—along with tottering models in five-inch heels, their gowns and hot pants manically pinned […]