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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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Philly Photog Shoots Drag Race Queens

Snaps of the top eight.

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Slate Says PA is “Most Linguistically Fascinating State in the Country”

Five different dialects — but two that matter most.

Patti LaBelle to Perform on Broadway This Summer

She’ll fill a guest role in Almost Midnight.

Bethlehem Lesbian Sues Over Inheritance Tax

A little Edie Windsor action in PA.

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Did Anyone Write About Philly Better than SI’s Gary Smith?

McQuade: Remembering the former Daily News columnist’s incredible 2011 piece on the Phillies, and that time he walked into the Union League in flip-flops.

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Continuing Rain Results in Flood Watches

Showers will continue into Thursday.


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?


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Let’s Start Videotaping Every Encounter With Philly Police

Mathis: Police corruption won’t solve itself. It’s time citizens took a stand.

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VIDEO: Watch Wayne Simmonds’ Hat-Trick Goal That Saved the Flyers’ Season

On brink of elimination, Flyers survive.

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Rape Case at Vanderbilt Haunts New Penn State Coach

Tennessee lawsuit says Coach James Franklin contacted alleged victim.

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Report: Toomey Failed to Disclose Resort Trip

After questions, posted a tardy report.

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“Bonnie” Gets 5 Months in Jail

For violating probation in California.

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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.


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Slow Tax Collections Sinking PA Budget

April revenues $595 million behind expectations.

Gay Things to Do in Philly This Week

Equality Forum, the Little Mermaid at Tabu, and Joshua Thomas sings.

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Ex-Penn Prof Sues over Tenure Denial

She says child care leaves were reason.

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Phila. Bans Smoking in Public Parks

The ban went into effect immediately.

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