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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


Longform

Meet the Man Who’s Making Philly’s Waterfront … Cool?

Guides

The Best Seats in Philadelphia

Opinion

Jailing Johnny Doc Won’t Solve Philly Corruption. Here’s What Will

Latest Stories

How Stephen Klasko Intends to Fix Health Care

Hint: It starts with rebranding a train station.

News

Who’s Responsible for These Die-Ins?

A Philly activist group is getting noticed in a big way. But are POWER’s tactics turning off potential supporters?

Home for the Holidays

Why do I stuff my family into a minivan every Christmas Eve?

News

The Best Thing That Happened This Week

Governor-elect Tom Wolf didn’t throw a party.

Local Drag Queens Break Guinness World Record

Last night at the Trocadero.

What the Gays Did On Instagram This Week

Nailing Solange’s wedding pose, meeting Andy Cohen and more.


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?


News

Fattah Jr. Will Represent Himself at Tax Trial

A judge urged him not to, however.

Gay Things to Do This Weekend

LGBT Night at Nutcracker Market, Night of 100 Queens, gay ice skating and more.

News

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week

What we’re bear-ly putting up with this week.

News

N.A. Poe’s Splendor in the Grass

The weed activist’s probation goes up in smoke.

News

PennDOT to Replace 7 Bridges Over Vine Street Expressway

They’ll spend $65 million to do it.

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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.