News

Major Schuylkill River Trail Extension Will Be Ready By Year’s End

The first link in the chain connecting the Schuylkill River Trail to Bartram’s Garden is a cable-stayed bridge in Grays Ferry that will open around the end of spring.


Longform

“I Hope Your Team Sucks and Loses”: Inside the Head of John Kruk

Long Bright River writer Liz Moore, who sees her book become a Peacock series in March / Photograph by Stevie Chris
Q&A

Meet the South Philly Author Behind the New TV Show Long Bright River

Longform

Dan Rhoton’s Big, Audacious Plan to End Poverty

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Longform

Krasner vs. Dugan: The District Attorney Race That Will Define Philly’s Future

Former Municipal Court judge Pat Dugan thinks he has what it takes to take Larry Krasner down in May’s primary.

News

Polling the Polls: Who’s Predicting Greatness for the Phillies This Season?

Go Phils! We check in on projections around the league for Opening Day.

News

A Conshy Company Wants You to Sleep Your Way Across the USA

It sounds like a cool idea. It also sounds a little bit horny.

News

Rep. Brendan Boyle Calls Trump’s Chiefs Invite “Sad, Pathetic”

It’s a “full-blown White House participation trophy,” says Boyle.

News

Major Schuylkill River Trail Extension Will Be Ready By Year’s End

Starting with a bridge from Center City to Grays Ferry that will open soon.

News

Philly Rats Just Aren’t as Ambitious as New York’s and D.C.’s

Plus: National Cheesesteak Day, zombie Rite Aids, and Trump takes in some wrestling.


Best of Philly 2024: City Life

Best of Philly 2024: City Life

A squad of teenage robotics champs, a 100-year-old jazz trailblazer, a deeply laughable mascot, and a Flyer to be truly proud of
Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Post-COVID, Does Center City Have a Future?

Back in the day, Philly, like a lot of cities, banked on a revival of its downtown to spark new life. The plan worked fine — for Center City. But now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?


News

Philly Mag Receives 18 CRMA Nominations

From civic journalism to food coverage to design, we’re very excited about the CRMA nominations this year.

Longform

Inside the Head of John Kruk

Here’s how Krukker became Philadelphia’s rambling id.

Delco middle school teacher John Richards, a resident of Newtown Square, is accused of having disturbing contact with a girl in his eight grade class.
News

Delco Middle School Teacher Accused of Disturbing Contact With Student

The allegations involve a 13-year-old girl in his class and his cell phone.

News

Philly Today: White House Punishes Penn Over Trans Swimmer

To the tune of $175 million. Plus, Philly gets a new PATCO station.

News

Main Line Dad Shocked Over Police Incident at Local Park

“Ardmore is changing,” says Adam Washington. “And not for the better.”

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How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

How the Pandemic Turned a South Philly Golf Course Into the City’s Best New Park

The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.
An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

Fifty years after founding their legendary Philadelphia International Records, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, with friends and collaborators from Thom Bell to John Oates to Patti LaBelle, look back on the musical partnership that came to define the city.


Opinion

I’ve Lived in Kensington for Years. Here’s My Review of Long Bright River

References to Wawa, Yuengling, Tastykakes and the Mummers can’t save this new Peacock crime series from being a slogfest.

News

Philly Today: Severe Assault Inside South Philadelphia Planet Fitness Locker Room

Plus, our MAGA friends will just love this climate change-focused drag show on ice.

News

Philly Today: Is This Local Spot One of the 100 Greatest Places in the World?

So says TIME magazine. Plus, the reviews are in for Long Bright River.

Longform

PennDOT’s Plan to Widen I-95 Through South Philly

The construction of the interstate 60 years ago was a catastrophe of urban planning. So why make the road even bigger?

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