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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2024

Mob-associated loan sharks, peonies, crock-pot cookbooks, and investigations into Philadelphia’s biggest institutions. It’s our roundup of our favorite stories from 2024!


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

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I Love My Kid, But How Long, Exactly, Am I Supposed to Keep His Baby Teeth?

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Can John Fry Revive Temple?

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Tolls…And Why I Hate Their Guts

It’s time for a revolution

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Do You Trust Snopes.com?

The truth might not be out there

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Men with Wandering Eyes

Enjoying the view or just plain ogling?

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Friday Movie Blog

Catfish: A-

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Jeff Lurie is worth $1 billion

Fall fashion feels like it’s 1977.

From KOP to Rittenhouse, fall fashion feels like it’s 1977, and Stevie and Co. are again taking the stage at the Spectrum.


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?


What’s it really like to pedal the streets of Philadelphia? For a week, one man trades his four wheels for two wheels to find out

DAY ONE: Equipped with my brand-new helmet (Kmart, $14.99, sleek metallic blue) and not-so-new bike (neighbor’s garage sale, $20, unfortunate shade of yellow), I pedal […]

In honor of Boss’s Day (October 16th), some successful Philadelphians share memorable words of wisdom — well, words, anyway — from their employers.

“My boss said, ‘If you’re not happy here, quit.’ I quit the next day and moved back to Philadelphia.”  — Steve Duross, former Key West, […]

What is this, Bean Town?

A cup of joe isn’t just a caffeine fix anymore — Philly is awash in direct-trade, artisan-roasted, small-batch beans. The trendy labels translate to seriously […]

The ex-publisher, ex-PR guru and possible expatriate spills on winning the Pulitzer, losing $10 million, and what he and Rupert Murdoch have in common

When Brian Tierney arrived as publisher (and lead investor) four years ago at 400 North Broad Street, home of the Inquirer and Daily News, the […]

Keith Primeau, Michael Untermeyer, and other local hot shots are getting into the food biz.

You may know Michael Untermeyer as the 59-year-old lawyer who ran for Philly’s district attorney seat — and lost — in 2009. But soon, you […]

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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.


The star of Man Shops Globe dishes on his travels.

Doers of glamorous jobs always seem to protest their career’s fun factors. (See: “Modeling is hard work.”) Not Keith Johnson. At 54, the blue-eyed, Rittenhouse […]

Take a look at the contenders.

Though the mayoral primaries are seven months away, there’s been a lot of chatter lately as to who might have what it takes to unseat […]

No sweet surrender.

City Council squashed Mayor Nutter’s soda tax in May, but there could be some fizz in the idea yet: Rumor has it the Mayor’s vowed […]

Eighteen of our favorite meals between sliced bread.

Fifteen of our favorite meals between sliced bread.

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