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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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Philly Today: SEPTA’s City Hall Station Is Even Dirtier Than You Think

Plus, Cecily Tynan points out that if Democrats were able to control hurricanes, they’d likely send them to Mar-a-Lago. Solid logic.

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Philly Judge In Big Trouble for Facebook Posts

This isn’t the Honorable Mark Cohen’s first tryst with controversy.

6ABC meteorologist Cecily Tynan and United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been promoting weather conspiracy theories after Hurricane Helene and ahead of Hurricane Milton hitting the U.S.
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Philly Today: Cecily Tynan Smacks Down Marjorie Taylor Greene

Plus: The Wing Bowl documentary you didn’t know you needed.

Q&A

The Philly Mag Interview: Abbott Elementary‘s Sheryl Lee Ralph

Philly’s favorite (fictional) schoolteacher tells all ahead of the hit sitcom’s fourth season debut.

Inside the bus that will take you from the Wilmington airport to Philadelphia International Airport
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Philly Today: A Brand-New Service for Those of You Who Really Hate Philly’s Airport

Plus, a major SEPTA fare hike looms.

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How New Hope Became a Playground for the Rich and Famous

Bradley Cooper. Leonardo DiCaprio. Gigi Hadid. Can the borough’s bohemian spirit survive an A-list invasion?


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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Halloween for Grownups: Pop-Up Bars and More

From macabre cocktails to costume parties to haunted jaunts, there are so many ways to embrace Spooky Season.

University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts, who just won a $800,000 MacArthur "genius" grant
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Philly Today: Penn Prof Wins $800,000 MacArthur “Genius” Award

Plus, we’re now on track for the lowest homicide count since 1967.

The SS United States in South Philadelphia has been evicted
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Philly Today: Bon Voyage, IKEA Boat

It sounds like the vessel is finally leaving us. Plus, Philly Mag readers weigh in on Pete Rose’s yucky legacy.

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Six Historic Cemeteries Around Philadelphia

They’re grassy, shady, pretty — and lots of famous people are buried in them.

Pete Rose playing for the Phillies at Veterans Stadium in 1983
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Philly Today: The Real Pete Rose Legacy Problem Has Nothing to Do With Gambling

Plus, a Main Line school district plummets in the latest rankings.

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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.


Phillies player Bryce Harper during the 2023 playoffs prior to the World Series appearance
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Philly Today: Utterly Theoretical Phillies World Series Tickets Start at $1,673

And that’s if you’d be willing to stand the whole (theoretical) game.

Republicans Bob Lange and Kristina Chadwick Lange in a television ad for Kamala Harris for President (image via Kamala Harris for President)
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Philly-Area Republican Couple Threatened After Filming Kamala Harris Ad

The normally idyllic lives of these Main Line farmers changed after MSNBC spotlighted the commercial.

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How a Wildflower Farm Tore This Bucolic Philly Suburb Apart

The wild tale of how one Chester County couple’s dream of selling peonies on their sprawling Willistown estate devolved into an epic feud

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker during an announcement about 76 Place. That's the proposed new Sixers arena in Philadelphia (image via City of Philadelphia)
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Philly Today: Mayor Parker Proves She Just Doesn’t Get It When It Comes to Chinatown

Plus, the Gayborhood comes out against the Sixers arena, too.

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