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Major Schuylkill River Trail Extension Will Be Ready By Year’s End

The first link in the chain connecting the Schuylkill River Trail to Bartram’s Garden is a cable-stayed bridge in Grays Ferry that will open around the end of spring.


Longform

“I Hope Your Team Sucks and Loses”: Inside the Head of John Kruk

Long Bright River writer Liz Moore, who sees her book become a Peacock series in March / Photograph by Stevie Chris
Q&A

Meet the South Philly Author Behind the New TV Show Long Bright River

Longform

Dan Rhoton’s Big, Audacious Plan to End Poverty

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Villanova University, site of a 2022 sexual assault that former Villanova student Elijah Katzenell has pleaded guilty to (photo by Victor Fiorillo)
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Villanova Student Demands Man Who Recorded Her Sexual Assault Not Walk at Graduation

The young woman, who was attacked in a dorm room, is graduating the same day as Juan Eguiguren, who recorded the assault on his phone.

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Philly Today: Behold, A (Sorta) New PATCO Station

Plus, those controversial torpedo baseball bats are made right in KOP.

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Why On Earth Is This West Philly-Delco Road Still Closed?

It’s been blocked off for more than a month. You can thank a golf course.

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Bucks County Man Claims Elon Musk Stiffed Him and Other Donald Trump Canvassers

He’s filed a class-action lawsuit against Musk anonymously out of fears for his personal safety. Good thinking!

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Philly Today: Video Emerges of Scary Incident In Fishtown Involving a 13-Year-Old Girl

Police are investigating a series of disturbing interactions between a man and girls and women on the street.

Opinion

How to Pay for SEPTA? For Starters, Toll the Schuylkill

Looking for low-hanging fruit for funding SEPTA? Here you go, courtesy New York City.


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?


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Philly Today: Police Are Looking for a $25,000 Restaurant Bandit

Plus, frustrated Fishtown parents take matters into their own hands.

Q&A

Alicia Vitarelli Talks Fan Obsessions, Scuba Dresses, and Her Reluctant Main Line Move

Since joining 6ABC in 2010, the unstoppably energetic Villanova alum has become one of the most beloved TV personalities in the city.

Twenty workers at Chester Community Charter School have been charged with child abuse. (Photo via Chester Community Charter School)

Twenty Delco School Workers Charged With Child Abuse

The charges involve 26 children as young as five years old.

Q&A

Cole Hamels Talks Life, His New Gig With the Phillies, and His Favorite Delco Restaurant

Our 2008 World Series MVP also weighs in on screen time limits and being an Eagles fan in Dallas.

Longform

Krasner vs. Dugan: The District Attorney Race That Will Define Philly’s Future

Former Municipal Court judge Pat Dugan thinks he has what it takes to take Larry Krasner down in May’s primary.

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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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Polling the Polls: Who’s Predicting Greatness for the Phillies This Season?

Go Phils! We check in on projections around the league for Opening Day.

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A Conshy Company Wants You to Sleep Your Way Across the USA

It sounds like a cool idea. It also sounds a little bit horny.

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Rep. Brendan Boyle Calls Trump’s Chiefs Invite “Sad, Pathetic”

It’s a “full-blown White House participation trophy,” says Boyle.

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Major Schuylkill River Trail Extension Will Be Ready By Year’s End

Starting with a bridge from Center City to Grays Ferry that will open soon.

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