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City Life

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

Last April, while broadcasting a Phillies game in San Diego, John Kruk noticed he had a window. The seventh inning had just started. The Phillies […]

City Life

Highway to Hell: Inside PennDOT’s Plan to Widen I-95 Through South Philly

The Southeast Youth Athletic Association is wedged into a small square block in South Philly. On some level, the location is fitting: From the blacktopped […]

City Life

Philly Special: How Dawn Staley Went From 25th and Diamond to the Top of the Basketball World

Dawn Staley walks gingerly (thank you, eight knee surgeries) onto the Carolina Coliseum court carrying a cup of coffee, with Champ, her seven-year-old Havanese, skittering […]

Property

Philly Housing Prices Are Through the Roof. But There Are Ways to Fix It

Browse the listings on your preferred real estate website these days and here’s what you might find: A three-bedroom in East Passyunk that sold for […]

City Life

Dan Rhoton’s Big, Audacious Plan to End Poverty

A dozen years ago, Dan Rhoton was walking down a street in North Philly when he heard someone calling: “Mr. Rhoton! Mr. Rhoton!” He turned […]

City Life

Steven Singer Loves the Haters

“Have you started your story yet?” Dad asks from across the table. My husband and I are out to dinner with my parents, and the […]

City Life

The Battle Over Philly’s Clean Hydrogen Revolution

Before we meet up, Chris DiGiulio warns me there’s a chance we’ll get hassled by security. She’s bringing a camera — which she says can […]

City Life

Billboard Wars: How Personal Injury Lawyers Took Over Philly

And Leonard Hill makes an even 30. On a crisp November afternoon, as hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians toil away at work and big-dreaming Philadelphia […]

Be Well Philly

Store Hopping and Discount Chasing: How Philadelphians Are Grocery Shopping Now

I once lived above a grocery store, just outside of D.C. It was the life. My condo neighbors and I called it our extended pantry. […]

City Life

Why Investing in “We” Over “Me” Could Heal America

I am not at all inclined to spend money freely or easily, a trait I trace directly to my father. On Saturdays when I was […]

City Life

Pennsylvania Deserves a National Park

Last May, I found myself sweaty and sticky in a hot Southern swamp, questioning my choices. Four years had gone by since my wife and […]

Be Well Philly

Desperate for Rest? A Sleep Retreat Might Be Just What You Need

I showed up to a sleep retreat exactly how you might imagine: utterly exhausted. I was at my wits’ end, having felt bone-tired for over […]

Foobooz

Provenance Is Philly’s Most Ambitious Restaurant — If It Can Survive

In the kitchen at Provenance, there’s no music. There’s no shouting, no raised voices. There’s no smell to the place that isn’t the non-smell of […]

City Life

Can John Fry Revive Temple?

“I’m not a real estate person,” John Fry says 10 minutes into a winding tour of Drexel’s campus on an overcast afternoon in late September. […]

City Life

How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America

Inside the imposing beige walls of the state correctional institution in Chester, there is a fish tank whose inhabitants are part of something bigger than […]