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

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LGBTQ&A: Kevin Parker and Kerry Scott

We chat with the creators of Philly Fashion Week about how they’ve kept one of the most dynamic runway shows in the region going strong for 13 years.

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This Abington HS Teacher Was Just Charged With Sexually Assaulting a Student

Latin teacher Thomas Kummer has been suspended and is in police custody.

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Eagles Fans Drank Plane’s Entire Booze Supply En Route to Titans Game

This Southwest flight attendant said that she had to listen to “Fly Eagles Fly” 35 times while in the air. But this story has a very happy ending.

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President Trump Is Speaking In Center City On Tuesday

The mid-term campaign stumping is really heating up.

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How Michael Rubin, Meek Mill’s Billionaire Bestie, Got Woke

The Lafayette Hill native’s path from e-commerce titan to Sixers co-owner to social justice crusader.

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Cherry Street Pier Is Philly’s Best New Thing

Here’s why the city’s latest pier park could be an urbanist game-changer.


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?


Can Philly Get a Lesbian Bar? Please?

Five years after Sisters closed, the city still has no club for queer women. That’s got to change.

Best Thing This Week: The Flyers’ Funky New Friend

Did you know “mascot” comes from the Occitan word for “witch”?

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Because of Course Gritty Was On Jimmy Fallon Last Night

From non-existence to a national audience in four days.

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March to End Rape Culture Comes to Center City This Weekend

Philly women — and their allies — are taking to the streets.

Main Line Doctor Says Lower Merion Schools Ignored Her Sexual Abuse Allegations

Liz Goldman is ready to share her story publicly — one she’s been trying to tell for years.

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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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Gritty Is Better at the Internet Than You

And here are 10 tweets that prove it.

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Report: Philly Has Some of the Most Annoying Neighbors In the Country

We usually think these rankings are pretty stupid. But this one is actually spot on.

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Opinion

What the NJ Transit Shaver Can Teach Us About the Brett Kavanaugh Accusations

A rush to judgment rarely results in the right judgment.

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Penn Soon Won’t Let Sophomores Live Off Campus

And some students are none too enthused about this decision.

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