Brian Howard

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City Life

A First-Generation College Student Whose Summer Orientation May Be Canceled

Angelica Estevez, a first-generation immigrant and senior at Girls’ High, on starting at Cornell in the fall.

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City Life

A Food Delivery Driver Working Six Days a Week

Nicholas Butler, a driver for Black and Mobile, on being out on the streets all day during a pandemic.

James Van Riemsdyk
City Life

Flyers Star James Van Riemsdyk on Suspending the Season in the Midst of a Hot Streak

The Flyers left wing is back home and reflecting on an NHL season in limbo.

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City Life

12 Philadelphians on How COVID-19 Turned Their Worlds Upside Down

In an instant, the crisis changed everything about how we live. A dozen perspectives on what that meant.

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Philly Should Deploy an Army of Contact Tracers to Fight COVID-19’s Second Wave

Thomas Jefferson University population health expert David Nash wants to enlist people who’ve lost jobs to the shutdown.

City Life

Will the COVID-19 Shutdown Have a Lasting Impact on My Cooped-Up Kids?

“Is the coronavirus still here?” “Is the coronavirus here at night?” A child trauma expert helps me answer my toddler’s burning questions and my own.

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City Life

This Riverwards Facebook Group Is Keeping Philly Developers on Their Toes

The Riverwards L+I Coalition isn’t your typical NIMBY gripe-fest.

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City Life

Can Phillies Fans Learn to Love a Bunch of New Yorkers?

Joe Girardi, the team’s new manager, is leading a New York invasion of South Philly — and we should be okay with that.

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City Life

Foglietta Plaza May Be Philly’s Most Criminally Underused Public Space

Everyone agrees it could be much more, but nobody agrees on what it should actually be.

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City Life

Joel Embiid Has a Trash Talk Problem

Looked at objectively, the talented young center’s run-ins with other players are the behavior of a bully and a troll.

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City Life

Philly Is the Best City in America to Be a Celebrity. No, Really.

From Jason Segel to André 3000, we know how to be chill around the famous among us.

Teachers like their jobs
City Life

We Polled Philly Teachers About How Much They Like Their Jobs

We asked 100 local teachers to spill on everything from social media to how they’d spend an extra $1,000.

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City Life

Classroom Confidential: Philly Teachers Tell All

Here’s how they really feel about parents, principals, technology, testing, homework and more.

City Life

Nothing Compares 2 U: The I. Goldberg I Remember

In the ’90s, whether you needed a pair of break-’em-in-yourself Levi’s, camping gear fit for an apocalypse, or a My Chemical Romance getup for Halloween, I. Goldberg was your place.

south philly quiz
City Life

Quiz: How Well Do You Know South Philly?

Mummers! Mosaics! McDonald’s!