Longform

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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Longform

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

News

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

George Nakashima Woodworkers Arts Building
Guides

30 Fascinating, Must-Visit Pennsylvania State Historical Markers

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Guides

16 Fascinating Ways Philly Is Using AI

From pothole repair to emergency medical response to unraveling the mysteries of human biology, here’s how Philly is upping its game with AI.

Q&A

Five Really Smart Philadelphians Talk About What AI Can (and Can’t) Do

We ask five really smart local leaders about the capabilities of AI technology.

Opinion

Point/Counterpoint: An Educator and Student Weigh in on ChatGPT

Can AI help or hurt higher education?

Philadelphia composer Melissa Dunphy, who has composed a choir song about Gritty
News

Philly Today: Finally, the World Gets the Gritty Choral Work It Deserves

“A Gritty Resolution” for SATB choir debuts this weekend.

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Philly Today: University of the Arts Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit

Meanwhile, the school’s president has resigned and Temple may have a rescue plan.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, who wants to install many, many speed cameras in Philadelphia
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Philly Today: Mayor Parker Wants to Deploy Speed Cameras All Over the City

Plus, it’s hard to believe it, but the University of the Arts just made things even worse.


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?


SEPTA plans to do away with free parking lots like this one at the Wynnewood stop on the Paoli-Thorndale line
News

Philly Today: SEPTA Plans to Kill Free Parking

Plus, the UArts implosion and a $27,500 prom expense.

News

The Yuppification of Philadelphia

How young urban professionals of the 1980s reinvented Philly  —  and America.

Longform

Meet the Bad Boy of Philly Antiquities

Main Line native Graham Arader, the notorious collector of only the finest rare maps, art and books, has landed perhaps his greatest acquisition.

The woman in the middle of the Kylie Kelce Jersey Shore scandal, Andrée Goldberg, and her husband Bryan Goldberg, at their new Teuscher Chocolates store on the Main Line
News

We Tracked Down Kylie Kelce’s Shore Bully. She Apologized — Eventually

The Main Line woman at the center of the Shore controversy wasn’t too happy to see us. And neither was her husband.

The Philadelphia Department of Health put this cease operations sign on the door of Famous 4th Street Deli after a restaurant inspection on Thursday revealed some major problems
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Philly Today: Wednesday Was a No Good, Very Bad Day at Philadelphia’s Most Iconic Deli

We’ve reviewed the health inspector’s reports. They’re not pretty.

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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.


Steve Brasovankin at his new South Street store Pop Culture Vulture, which rents DVDs.
News

Break Your Streaming Addiction and Learn to Love DVDs Again

The owner of this new South Street shop says you’ve been doing it all wrong.

Meet Patty, a western lowland gorilla that's one of the new animals at the Philadelphia Zoo
News

Philly Today: The Philadelphia Zoo Gets Some Adorable New Animals

Meet Patty, a western lowland gorilla. Plus: Bradley Cooper reckons himself a singer. Again.

Opinion

72 Years Ago, Philadelphia Made a Huge Mistake

And we’ve been paying for it ever since.

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Philly Today: Finally, We Get Cheap, Non-Stop Flights to Copenhagen

Plus, the New York Post calls Philadelphia “a model of urban order.”