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Food Protection Report
View the city report Philly foodies are talking about. The following is a raw report in Microsoft Excel format generated by the city’s Office of […]
Where’s Donald?
Donald Trump is invading Philadelphia—or, at least, his brand is. By the law that holds that you don’t really exist in Philadelphia if a ward […]
Loco Parentis: The Son and the Fury
Staring up at her seething child, our parenting columnist asks: What do 13-year-old boys have to be so mad about, anyway? Jake is angry. My […]
Taste: Reinventing the Co-op
For almost 70 years, the Swarthmore Co-op was a fixture of that community’s miniature downtown, a well-worn market with hand-painted advertisements, its convenient location the […]
In Search of Milton Street
It has come to this: sitting in my Chevy Cavalier on a soupy August day, staked out in front of the home of T. Milton […]
Thacher Longstreth: The Icon in Winter
He’s left his wife of 62 years. His kids aren’t speaking to him. He’s estranged from old friends. He’s engaged to marry his chief of […]
Editor’s Letter
I often speak to groups about what it is we do and don't do here at Philadelphia magazine. We seek to reveal the region to […]
The Secret Life of Your Teen
She was walking across the sand, marching over the dunes of Avalon last summer, when she saw him. Them. Er, it. It involved Ethan, her […]
The Harvard Nazi
Many amateur genealogists delve into the family archives in search of heroic ancestors — royalty, most commonly — to make them feel better about themselves. […]
The Whole Truth
On Friday night in the Boston Celtics locker room, Paul Pierce is looking splendid in baller chic. Twenty minutes after an easy home win, he […]
The Paper Lion
Every weekday at 3 o'clock, Ken Chandler, the top editor at the Boston Herald, sits down with his deputies to plot the contents of the […]
Lawrence of Absurdia
In January of 1991, economist Lawrence Summers took a leave from his Harvard professorship and moved to Washington to work for the World Bank. His […]
Standout Trainers
Gerald “Chris” Christopher Wayne Gym, 214 North Aberdeen Avenue, 2nd floor rear, Wayne; 267-688-7844 Why: With trainers, as with so much else, personality does matter. […]
What if Zell Kravinsky isn’t crazy?
After word got out that one of Philadelphia's most eccentric millionaires, Zell Kravinsky, had donated a kidney to a random stranger, a reporter at one […]
Raising a Jackass
Who can say what flicks that crucial switch in your kids? One day your son's launching himself off the living room couch, bamming into the […]