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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Girl Scouts Get a New Look

There’s been a lot of news on the Girl Scout front lately. Earlier this month, the organization unveiled a brand-new cookie flavor: the Toast-Yay!, shaped […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: It’s BLT Season!

On Monday of this week, we made ourselves a BLT for supper. (We enjoyed it while watching the Sixers.) On Tuesday, we had a BLT […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Kids Are All Right

Ben Simmons has always made it hard to love him. Once ranked the number one player in the nation, he’s had a career of more fits […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Winner in Wawa vs. Sheetz!

It’s been busy days lately for Wawa. In addition to the convenience chain’s announcement that it was closing its big Center City store at Broad and […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Win for a William Penn Oak Tree

Life moves so fast these days that history might as well be a will-o’-the-wisp, here one instant, gone the next. There are still a few […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Hooray for Lawyers!

We know, we know; we hate lawyers as much as the next guy. Maybe more so — we have some in our family. But we […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Sounds of Summer. Sort of.

Sure, this long stretch of enforced isolation has been hard. But you know what’s made it even harder? The dead silence in our backyard. For […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Gritty’s Big Queer Eye Makeover

Oh, that we all had friends as devoted and loyal as the Phillie Phanatic, who recently, concerned about his good pal Gritty and hearing that […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Zoo Goes Greener

Happy National Pollinator Week! Pollination is how you and I and everything we eat got here, more or less, so it’s definitely worth celebrating. And […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Malcolm Jenkins’s New Gig

Malcolm Jenkins has always been a Philly favorite. Though he started his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, he was an Eagle for six […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A High-School Graduation Like No Other

For 13,000 young people in this city, this week marked the end of a journey. At Girls’ High and Boys Latin, Bodine and Carver, Overbrook […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: We Voted

That was a helluva week, wasn’t it? Exhausting. Enervating. Disheartening. Thrilling. Protests, riots, incendiary rhetoric, stealthy statues, armed vigilantes, governments beating and tear-gassing their citizens … it […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Let’s Pile Into the Car and Go Watch a Movie!

  When your business is a venerable 89-year-old wedding and banquet venue and coronavirus hits — well, you know what they say about necessity being […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Phanatic Is Toast

Sports fans of all sorts are growing increasingly restless, and in response, leagues are wracking their heads to figure out how and when it’s safe […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Penn Student Made This Stop-Motion Video of Her Daily Commute

You know the quarantine’s getting to you when you start to miss your daily commute. We know, because we’re missing ours: all 37 miles each […]