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Connoisseur: Wendell Holland’s Favorite Things
That’s right: West Philly resident Wendell Holland is a Penn Law grad, founder of furniture company Beve Unlimited, and the winner of last spring’s Survivor: […]
The Style and Beauty News You Need to Know This November
With cool new offerings from Philly makers, new beauty and waxing salons opening, brand new stores on the Main Line, and an awesome Eagles line […]
Will Our Obsession With Neighborhood Gear Ever End?
It started with a poster: the city skyline, up on people’s walls, in the early 2000s. Then it was “Philly” emblazoned in bold typeface on […]
Guys, Listen Up: This Is The Most Badass Topcoat We’ve Seen All Year
Tweed conjures up a certain image: an old man in a British pub, smoking a pipe. It telegraphs traditional and classy — it’s just never […]
March Demanding Justice for Shantee Tucker Scheduled for Wednesday
This Wednesday, community members are planning a candlelight vigil to honor the memory of a Black transgender woman who was tragically killed last week on […]
Why Are Philly Brides So Obsessed With This Risk-Taking Wedding Dress?
Philly is a big city, so it can’t really be defined by one wedding style. Just like any other major metropolitan area, we host classic […]
Philly Doesn’t Deserve the Mercy of the Black Men Arrested at Starbucks
Growing up in a southern Pentecostal church, I was constantly reminded of the divine act of showing grace. “Always forgive your enemies,” my grandmother would […]
Checking In on Philly’s Generation X
In 1995, this magazine profiled 30 of the city’s top Gen Xers (all then age 30 or under). We reached out to a few of […]
Philly Is a Boomer Town (Still)
Among Philly’s power elite, baby boomers — not to mention white dudes — still dominate. Here’s the generational breakdown of the region’s political, Fortune 500 […]
Philly’s Poverty Rate Is the Highest Among U.S. Big Cities
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative released the findings of a new report on Wednesday that examined, in detail, our city’s poor. At 25.7 percent, […]
OPINION: I Hope Amazon HQ2 Doesn’t Come to Philly
Today is the deadline for cities to place their bids to host Amazon’s second headquarters. Philadelphia, along with Chicago, Houston, Boston and more than 50 other […]
Spitting in Philly’s Face, NFL Decides to Hold Next Draft in Dallas
Unable to resist capitalizing on the most viral moment in NFL Draft history, the league announced on Wednesday that its premier offseason event will head […]
We Want to Hear Your True Life Wawa Stories
I have plenty of Wawa memories that are pleasant: As a kid, picking up a paper with my dad to read about who blew the […]
OPINION: Philly Isn’t Charlottesville. It’s Worse.
“Who is more racist: The North or the South?” That is the age-old question I’m often asked when I tell people I moved to Philly […]
Philly to Host Army-Navy Game in Five of Next Six Years
After several years of trading off hosting duties with Baltimore, Philadelphia has been named the official site for the Army-Navy Game in five of the […]