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BEST OF PHILLY

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

News

LGBTQ Event of the Week

Our pick: Time To Pretend IV

News

Kenney Wants $15 Minimum Wage for City Contractors

The mayor is expected to push a bill to bump up pay on Wednesday.

LGBTQ&A: Kory Aversa

We chat with the public relations maven on his activist beginnings, unexpected career switch, and being a gay bachelor in the city of brotherly love.

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Opinion

Defending Bill Cosby Does Nothing to Protect Black Men

The disgraced icon deserves to serve time for being a sexual offender, and his sentencing should not be misrepresented as a racial injustice.

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News

Gritty Is Getting a Beer Named After Him

The name, Nightmare Fuel, is dead accurate.

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News

Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years in State Prison, Denied Bail

The sentence comes months after Cosby was found guilty of molesting a Temple employee in 2004.


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?


Opinion

Why Philly’s Marketing Gurus Will Never Give Up the Cheesesteak (or Rocky)

They are loved universally, and they are ours and ours alone, argues the chief of Visit Philadelphia.

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News

Tuesday Is the Last Day to Register to Vote

What are you waiting for? Register to vote! Right now!

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News

Philly Managing Director Leaving for Gig at Penn

Michael DiBerardinis has served as the city’s chief operating officer for nearly three years.

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News

Who Has the Worst Mascot: The Flyers or Please Touch Museum

Gritty is the stuff of nightmares — but not the city’s only mascot mistake lately.

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News

Sexual Assault Survivors to Rally in Support of Kavanaugh Accusers

They’ll gather with advocates in Dilworth Park on Monday afternoon.

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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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News

Police: 7-Year-Old Dies After Falling Between Subway Cars

Authorities say the boy was selling candy when he slipped onto the tracks.

Best Thing This Week: He’s Baaack!

Son, take us to the mountain again.

News

Domb to Introduce Bill Ending DROP for New Non-Union Employees

The legislation is part of a long-term goal to end the costly pension program altogether.

Opinion

“W. Wilson Goode, Sr. Way” Is Another Rizzo Statue in the Making

How could City Council members honoring the mayor who approved the MOVE bombing not see the parallels?

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