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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Tiny Tiger’s Reprieve

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Purr-fection in Fishtown

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Phillies’ Premature Illumination

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Seth Williams’s Guilty Plea

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Bucks County’s Fox Pox

When we were growing up in Bucks County in the 1970s, it was a wonderland of deep dense forests and verdant farmland and misty hills, […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Phillies Got Streaky

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Our Giraffe Count Stabilized

We have a soft spot for giraffes. They were our mom’s favorite animal, for some peculiar reason. (How does a South Philly girl end up […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The End to a Seaside Heights Catfight

On one side, in sleepy Seaside Heights, New Jersey, you have the cat lovers, the locals who’d fed and cared for and cleaned up after the […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Awakening of Aaron Altherr

Some weeks are so full of hope and wonder that we have a hard time choosing amongst all the Best Things That Happen. Then there […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Philly Did Philly

Some cities might have been thrown for a loop by all that went on here this week, between the NFL draft, the Penn Relays, and […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Philly Marched for Science

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Cherry Blossoms!

What with all the weird weather that went into spring this year, there was a lot of free-floating botanical consternation hereabouts. What would Stella’s late-season […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Brock Stassi Made the Big Leagues

We live in a world of insta-success these days. A single tweet, a viral video, and you (or you, or I) can be the Next […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Weather Sommelier Chris Sowers

We got snow this week — though not as much snow as we thought we were getting, which you’d think would make us happy but […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Haason Reddick’s Meteoric Rise

He was unrecruited out of Haddon Heights High, without a single scholarship offer thanks to injuries in his junior and senior years. When he tried walking […]