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Philly Mag’s Favorite Long Reads of 2024

Mob-associated loan sharks, peonies, crock-pot cookbooks, and investigations into Philadelphia’s biggest institutions. It’s our roundup of our favorite stories from 2024!


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

Opinion

I Love My Kid, But How Long, Exactly, Am I Supposed to Keep His Baby Teeth?

Longform

Can John Fry Revive Temple?

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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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50 Years of Best of Philly: The Media

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Best of Philly, for every month of 2024 we’re taking a look back at some major categories and standout winners. Up now: our ink-stained comrades.

The scene on South Street in Philadelphia after a mass shooting in 2022, back when the Philadelphia homicide rate was soaring
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Philly Today: Philadelphia Homicides on Pace for Historic Low. No, Really!

The news Steve Keeley won’t tell you.

The City of Philadelphia will now pick up your bulk trash items like that old refrigerator that's been sitting in your basement
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Philly Today: Here’s How to Get the City to Pick Up Your Big Trash

Make an appointment under a new program. Plus, the return of SEPTA parking fees.


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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If Patience Is a Virtue, What Is Our On-Demand World Teaching Our Children?

Life has not yet taught my children why waiting matters. I’m not sure it’s ever going to.

Actor David Boreanaz, whose dad is veteran Philadelphia television broadcaster Dave Roberts, in a promotional image from his TV show Seal Team
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David Boreanaz Talks His Philly-Famous Dad and Philly Sports

The actor son of longtime Action News personality Dave Roberts just embarked on the final season of his military TV series, SEAL Team.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker during her announcement on the new Sixers arena
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No, You Can’t Recall Philadelphia’s Mayor Over Her Sixers Arena Deal

And answers to other burning questions in the wake of her controversial announcement.

A plane taking off from Philadelphia International Airport, which was just ranked as the worst airport in the country by J.D. Power
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Philly Today: Why Our Airport Was Just Ranked Worst in the Country

We’re bested by miserable Chicago-Midway and freaking LaGuardia

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Mayor Cherelle Parker Announces Support of 76ers Arena in Center City

“I wholeheartedly believe it is the right deal for the people of Philadelphia,” Parker said of 76 Place.

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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.


White Supremacist Jared Taylor, who is on the schedule to talk to one of Amy Wax's classes at the University of Pennsylvania
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Philly Today: Meet the White Supremacist Headed to the University of Pennsylvania

Yes, insufferable Amy Wax is involved. But, hey, the Phillies post-season lottery has opened!

Phillies player Bryce Harper, whose name just came up in a lawsuit filed against the DraftKings betting app
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Philly Today: Federal Lawsuit Claims DraftKings Betting App Illegally Uses Bryce Harper’s Image

The suit, filed in Philadelphia’s federal court, also names Bet365 and alleges that other MLB player images are being used illegally as well.

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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Former Villanova Student Pleads Guilty to Dorm Room Sexual Assault

Elijah Katzenell sexually assaulted a woman in his dorm room in 2022.

Upcoming I-76 closures could lead to major Philadelphia traffic headaches
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Philly Today: Big I-76 Closures Are Coming

Plus, the return of mugginess followed by lots of rain.

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