Long Bright River writer Liz Moore, who sees her book become a Peacock series in March / Photograph by Stevie Chris
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Ken Chandler wants to turn the Herald into the anti-Globe. His plan might be just crazy enough to work — that is, if he can get his own reporters to buy into it.

Every weekday at 3 o'clock, Ken Chandler, the top editor at the Boston Herald, sits down with his deputies to plot the contents of the […]

Harvard President Lawrence Summers says his comments about women's innate talents (or lack thereof) were mere intellectual provocation. Women the world over disagreed. Now Summers finds himself on the defensive, while a divided university debates jus

In January of 1991, economist Lawrence Summers took a leave from his Harvard professorship and moved to Washington to work for the World Bank. His […]

If you take your fitness instruction personally, here are five private trainers who won't let you down — or off easy

Gerald “Chris” Christopher Wayne Gym, 214 North Aberdeen Avenue, 2nd floor rear, Wayne; 267-688-7844 Why: With trainers, as with so much else, personality does matter. […]

One day early this summer, a multimillionaire sneaked past his wife and four kids, drove to Albert Einstein Medical Center, and donated one of his kidneys to a total stranger. Now he's making noises about donating his second kidney as well. Should Ze

After word got out that one of Philadelphia's most eccentric millionaires, Zell Kravinsky, had donated a kidney to a random stranger, a reporter at one […]

If your TV-star-and-pro-skateboarding son let an alligator loose in your kitchen and set off fireworks in your house, you'd probably have him committed. But not West Chester's April and Phil Margera

Who can say what flicks that crucial switch in your kids? One day your son's launching himself off the living room couch, bamming into the […]

The essential guide to where to dine tonight: Stephen Starr's mod/classic steakhouse, the best tiny city BYOB, a glittering suburban sushi palace, plus four more standouts we love. We dined, we drank, we debated. Overall, we'd call this one of t

Pumpkin 1713 South Street; 215-545-4448 Opened: September 2004 The scene: The bold orange logo announces Pumpkin's place on the 1700 block of South Street, and […]


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?


Secrecy. Misinformation. Retaliation. you might expect some rogue business to be run this way — but not one of the nation's top public radio stations.

To hear current and former WBUR employees tell the story of Jane Christo's reign as the public radio station's general manager, you'd think she was […]

Inquirer sportswriter Stephen A. Smith is making it big on TV, thanks to his confrontational style, an oversize ego, and a hip-hop swagger that carries over off-camera. And while he’s at it, Smith is changing the way we talk sports

Though you'd never know it, minutes before the 2004 NBA draft, on the floor of Madison Square Garden, the only person as tense as the […]

The postgame riots? Kid stuff. Students here support a $364M criminal economy fueled by drugs and sex.

Wendy began her Christmas break from school in Boston last year knowing she would have to get a job to pay the rent. Like many […]

Bank of America signs finally go up this month on former Fleet branches, marking the last chapter in what critics say is a saga of broken promises.

Money has many uses . Among other things, it can buy cooperation. It can buy loyalty. It can buy silence. Early this year, North Carolina-based […]

A new way to show your love for Jim Gardner.

The only thing worse than a cell phone chirping in a restaurant or movie theater is one that rings to Beethoven's Fifth in its entirety, […]

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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.


Forget the brain drain. Center City has become a real-world Real World

The Center City civic leaders and business elite who talk apocalyptically about Philadelphia's brain drain might feel differently about the matter had they left their […]

Northeast Native Paul Fishbein brought order to the chaotic underworld of porn and became a millionaire by treating sex on videotape like any other business. If the line between his home and office is blurring, well, maybe that isn't such a bad thing

Inside an anonymous one-story warehouse, Paul Fishbein wanders into a dim, musty cave of a room. It's connected to a smaller antechamber with a canopied […]

How we can finally end the parking barons' monopoly

The city has hired a consulting group to study Center City's parking issues, and I admit I've got a very bad feeling about the whole […]

You think faked stories and faked documents are a scandal? In Boston, some of the journalists themselves were made up.

I was a 10-bucks-a-night office boy at the old Boston Herald, then published downtown on Mason Street, when a copy editor named Bill Stewart patted […]

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