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How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America

A ground-breaking partnership between Drexel and the Pennsylvania­ Department of Corrections is revolutionizing the U.S. prison system, one block at a time.


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How a Vicious Legal Battle Over a Wildflower Farm Tore This Bucolic Philly Suburb Apart

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Guns, God, and Greeley: Three Days in a Poconos MAGA Cult

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In ticket sales, the more things change, the more they stay the same. (Expensive)

To add to the list of life’s certainties: death, taxes … and concert ticket service fees. And while the taxes might ease up this year, […]

How to order your steak like a regular.

Know Your … Terminology Prime vs. Choice: Plain and simple, USDA Prime beef is the best you can get; USDA Choice runs a close second. […]

How Philadelphia is becoming a steakhouse town

NEW YORK HAS Peter Luger and its famous dry-aged porterhouse. Chicago has the original Morton’s, a Windy City institution that’s expanded to more than 80 […]

Do you really need to be convinced to indulge in chocolate?

Okay, maybe you don’t need to be convinced to indulge in chocolate no matter what the season, but do take this suggestion: The same Betty’s […]

If spicy food makes you want to salsa, you’re in luck.

If spicy food makes you want to salsa, you’re in luck. Paxia, the new Mexican BYOB in the old Molcajete Mixto space, kicked off a […]

The meat trend we’re hoping works its way south from NYC

Every so often while reading Food & Wine magazine’s New York City-based blog Mouthing Off, I am overcome by my envy for the foodies who […]


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?


The perfect place to shop for the foodies on your list.

Last-minute holiday shopping needs? Well, if you have foodies on your list, check out Ingredient Specialty Foods in Manayunk. The shelves are stocked with dozens […]

A designer’s little black book is her most prized possession. Here, Barbara Eberlein reveals the local resources she’s tapped to.

A designer’s little black book is her most prized possession. Here, Barbara Eberlein reveals the local resources she tapped to transform this house into a […]

Are ethics watchdog Shane Creamer’s bark and bite as vicious as they should be?

SHANE CREAMER DRIVES a vintage Porsche, wears suits that could appear in GQ, and possesses what might be the finest head of hair on the […]

Enter the new traditional: How a sophisticated interior designer gave a seven-year-old house a sense of history

Eminent Center City interior designer Barbara Eberlein is best known for her restorations of grand old Main Line manses (see: Ardrossan). Her more secret talent: […]

The tanking economy isn’t exactly your fault, but America’s biggest debt-collection company will still hunt you down 

THE CALL CAME on a Saturday morning, 8:30 a.m. Tara Burkholder remembers the time so precisely because the call woke her from a dead sleep. […]

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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.


Growing up in Northeast Philly, I desperately wanted to escape its blandness. Forty years later, the neighborhood has radically changed.

JULY 1971 You don’t want to ask. It’s Saturday, and Dad does his own thing on Saturdays. He doesn’t take you fishing or to ball games […]

Alycia Lane was asked to respond to assertions made by Dawn Stensland. Instead, her attorney, Paul Rosen, released a statement.

“Larry Mendte is a lovesick, obsessed stalker who pleaded guilty to felony charges for breaking into Alycia Lane’s e-mail 537 times after she left the […]

The UPenn grad and KYW alum returns for another season of Maury  

With his 70th birthday this month and 18 seasons of his talk show, Maury, under his belt, one might think Maury Povich would pack up […]

Some of what gets handed down from generation to generation, you hope bypasses your kids. Pass the bell jar, please 

YOU’VE GOT MAIL!” the AOL guy sings. I shrug off the embarrassment I feel when he does that (“You still use AOL?” the youngsters at […]

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