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Victor Fiorillo

Senior Reporter at Philadelphia Magazine

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City Life

Philly Today: Here’s How to Get a Free Tree this Month

Plus, the city gets $17 million for electric school buses.

City Life

Philly Today: SEPTA’s City Hall Station Is Even Dirtier Than You Think

Plus, Cecily Tynan points out that if Democrats were able to control hurricanes, they’d likely send them to Mar-a-Lago. Solid logic.

Philadelphia Judge Mark Cohen and a thumbs-down symbol inspired by Facebook
City Life

Philly Judge In Big Trouble for Facebook Posts

This isn’t the Honorable Mark Cohen’s first tryst with controversy.

6ABC meteorologist Cecily Tynan and United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been promoting weather conspiracy theories after Hurricane Helene and ahead of Hurricane Milton hitting the U.S.
City Life

Philly Today: Cecily Tynan Smacks Down Marjorie Taylor Greene

Plus: The Wing Bowl documentary you didn’t know you needed.

City Life

The Philly Mag Interview: Abbott Elementary‘s Sheryl Lee Ralph

Philly’s favorite (fictional) schoolteacher tells all ahead of the hit sitcom’s fourth season debut.

Inside the bus that will take you from the Wilmington airport to Philadelphia International Airport
City Life

Philly Today: A Brand-New Service for Those of You Who Really Hate Philly’s Airport

Plus, a major SEPTA fare hike looms.

University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts, who just won a $800,000 MacArthur "genius" grant
City Life

Philly Today: Penn Prof Wins $800,000 MacArthur “Genius” Award

Plus, we’re now on track for the lowest homicide count since 1967.

The SS United States in South Philadelphia has been evicted
City Life

Philly Today: Bon Voyage, IKEA Boat

It sounds like the vessel is finally leaving us. Plus, Philly Mag readers weigh in on Pete Rose’s yucky legacy.

Pete Rose playing for the Phillies at Veterans Stadium in 1983
City Life

Philly Today: The Real Pete Rose Legacy Problem Has Nothing to Do With Gambling

Plus, a Main Line school district plummets in the latest rankings.

Phillies player Bryce Harper during the 2023 playoffs prior to the World Series appearance
City Life

Philly Today: Utterly Theoretical Phillies World Series Tickets Start at $1,673

And that’s if you’d be willing to stand the whole (theoretical) game.

Republicans Bob Lange and Kristina Chadwick Lange in a television ad for Kamala Harris for President (image via Kamala Harris for President)
City Life

Philly-Area Republican Couple Threatened After Filming Kamala Harris Ad

The normally idyllic lives of these Main Line farmers changed after MSNBC spotlighted the commercial.

Bill Murray and his friend Katrina Duva, who just so happens to be one of the operators at Bob & Barbara's, inside Bob & Barbara's on Monday
Foobooz

Yes, That Was Bill Murray Bartending at Bob & Barbara’s

You haven’t had a Special until you’ve had one served to you by Bill Murray.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker during an announcement about 76 Place. That's the proposed new Sixers arena in Philadelphia (image via City of Philadelphia)
City Life

Philly Today: Mayor Parker Proves She Just Doesn’t Get It When It Comes to Chinatown

Plus, the Gayborhood comes out against the Sixers arena, too.

The scene on South Street in Philadelphia after a mass shooting in 2022, back when the Philadelphia homicide rate was soaring
City Life

Philly Today: Philadelphia Homicides on Pace for Historic Low. No, Really!

The news Steve Keeley won’t tell you.

Philadelphia dive bar Bob & Barbara's and its streetery, which the city is now forcing Bob & Barbara's to remove even though the city approved the streetery
Foobooz

Inside Bob & Barbara’s Streetery Nightmare

The iconic Philly dive bar learns that you really can’t fight City Hall.