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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


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

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The Best Seats in Philadelphia

Opinion

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

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Uber Fired This Philly Man Over a Crime He Committed in the 1980s

Now he’s taking Uber to federal court. Should a decades-old criminal act preclude a person from being employed?

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Traffic Police Will Crack Down Around 30th Street Station This Fall

Block the box or fail to yield to pedestrians this fall and you could face a costly fine.

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Looking for an Official Gritty Halloween Costume?

Here’s why you’re not finding one.

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Meek Mill, Sixers Co-Owner Michael Rubin to Headline ThinkFest 2018

Come hear what Philly’s most interesting people have to say about our city’s future.

Longform

Sneak Peek: Inside Philly Mag’s November Issue

Our November issue drops this week. Are you happy at work?

The Stealth Revolution in Male Hair

From our Coiffure in Chief to Joel Embiid’s twists, what’s fueled the liberation in locks.


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?


Reel Around the Fountains: Heather Mitts’ Favorite Place

The Olympic soccer gold medalist on why Longwood Gardens is a big splash with her family.

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Other Cities Are Syncing Up Elections. Philly Should, Too.

The no-brainer way to juice voter turnout.

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Best Thing This Week: The Navy Yard Got Legs

We’ll take this type of many-tentacled public art over that hack Jacques Lipchitz any day.

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The Satanic Temple to Perform a Black Mass In Philly Tonight

Naturally, some people are pretty freaked out about this.

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Wagner: I’ll Stomp All Over Tom Wolf’s Face With Golf Spikes

A campaign spokesperson said Wagner’s Friday comments “were not to be taken literally.”

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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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Amal Clooney Chides Trump for Mocking Christine Ford

She criticized the president during a speech on Friday in Philly.

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The Kermit Gosnell Movie Opens Today — Not Without Controversy, Of Course

There are claims that Facebook is blocking ads for the pro-life film, and major movie critics are pretty much ignoring it.

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Philly’s Shakespeare & Co. Is the Indie Bookstore We All Need Now

Here are the five reasons why (#1: the store’s “espresso book machine”).

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Bartender Says Philadelphia Distilling Fired Her After Fight Over Racial Slur

Was Dominique Prout unfairly terminated by the popular Fishtown distillery for what she sees as an act of self-defense?

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