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How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America

A ground-breaking partnership between Drexel and the Pennsylvania­ Department of Corrections is revolutionizing the U.S. prison system, one block at a time.


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How a Vicious Legal Battle Over a Wildflower Farm Tore This Bucolic Philly Suburb Apart

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Guns, God, and Greeley: Three Days in a Poconos MAGA Cult

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30 Fascinating, Must-Visit Pennsylvania State Historical Markers

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Democrats moved to take control of the U.S. Senate on Thursday after Sen. James Jeffords (news – web sites) announced he would leave the Republican Party, throwing

Democrats moved to take control of the U.S. Senate on Thursday after Sen. James Jeffords (news – web sites) announced he would leave the Republican […]

Philly Novelist Karen Quinones Miller landed a big time book contract to write a murder mystery. Instead, she ended up solving the mystery of her own family

Karen Quinones Miler was supposed to be working on the second novel in the six-figure, two-book deal she'd signed earlier in 2000 with Simon & […]

Can This Man Be Straight

In this Queer Eye era and this city of brotherly love, where even neighboring governors are coming out, why would one gay man try so hard to like women? For him, it's either that or going to Hell

People to Watch: The It List

EXCERPT FROM “People to Watch: The It List” November 2003 Who will be Philly's next Georges Perrier? Who has the refined Main Line taste to […]

Why last month's endorsement of Sam Katz was a boneheaded move

I don't know many people who were as depressed as I was the morning after John Street won the mayoralty. Now, four years later, I'll […]

Sizing up the candidates for mayor-in 2007

Tired of the dynamics of this year's mayor's race — pro-business reformer vs. loyal politics-as-usual Democrat? Steel yourself. You're in for a replay in 2007 […]


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?


Both of these men have been snared by Megan's Law. One is fighting it. The other needs it to control his urges. Which would you rather have as your neighbor?

Cape May County doesn't appear to be the sort of place where a battle over Megan's Law would begin. This is where families rush to […]

Twenty-five years after leaving town, our writer, who grew up in Logan, came back to walk all 13 miles of our grandest boulevard. The landmarks he remembered are largely gone, but it's still a street overflowing with stories, dreams and danger.

The Big B was at least five stories high, ruby by day, aglow at night, so you could see it from miles away, bright and […]

A new family resort in the Poconos is all child’s play—until Dad hits the black-diamond waterslide

We arrived later than we’d expected—seven-ish on Saturday evening, having spent what seemed like six days caught in a Poconos traffic jam—and so we immediately […]

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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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Best of Philly 2006 Opener

You could say that in the past year, Philly had its 15 minutes. The national media decided to love us, New Yorkers claimed to “discover” […]

Bargain-basement Brazilians. Classy keggers. 10 things to love this month

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Answers to reader questions about Philly dining

Q: I’m turning 21 and want to celebrate someplace where we can dance. There’ll be 10 to 15 of us, and I was looking for […]

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