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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2025

Beef bandits, billboard wars, an epic high school prom, and profiles of the biggest names in Philly — it’s our roundup of our favorite stories of 2025.


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How Philly Fell for Krampus — and a Darker Kind of Christmas

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Youth Sports in Philadelphia Are Uneven — and the Gaps Are Growing

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The Editors’ Cut: What We’re Reading, Watching, Doing, and Liking This Week

Latest Stories

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Gay Stays in Deportation Cases

A new criteria may benefit same-sex couples

Morning Scoop: Corbett’s Line in the Sand

Plus: Phils smashing record

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Richard + John: A Love Story

Why gay marriage matters

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The A-Team

For a generation now, Garrison Keillor has been telling us that Lake Woebegon is the town where “all the women are strong, all the men […]

As the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Philadelphia is America’s unofficial capital of penmanship. So what happens in an age when cursive gets conquered by the keyboard?

"Forty three seventy-nine,” the checkout clerk says. I have my checkbook and pen at the ready; I write in the date and the amount, then […]

Look inside the Main Line interior designer’s Bethany Beach vacation home

There is a time capsule buried beneath the Bethany Beach home that kitchen designer and architect Joanne Hudson, who has a space in the Marketplace […]


Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Our world-champion Eagles, a messy traffic stop, an unexpected councilperson, and the Delco pope

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

A six-figure budget. Hundreds of helpers. Giant art installations. A tentacled kraken. This prom is like no other.


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The Attic’s New Ad Campaign

LGBT youth awareness coming to SEPTA

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Google Goes Gay – Sort of

A rainbow of search results for Pride

Who Runs Philly?

Interactive page shows us who’s really in charge

Richie Ashburn Trademark Lawsuit

The Hall of Famers’ family is being sued

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Video Gaming is So…Gay?

Time to save the world

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

Beloved Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo became first-time parents — and gave their species a ray of hope.

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.


MTV “Jackass” Star Dies in Crash

Ryan Dunn dead at 34

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Dustin Lance Black: Tell Your Story

You could be featured in a new video

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Theatrical History

Who’d you play in your grade-school play?

Amish Kids On Facebook

Plus: Amoroso drivers strike

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