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They Do Exist: Five Hip Jersey Shore Hotels To Book This Summer
The B&B: The Gables // The French influence is strong in this renovated five-room Victorian, thanks to toile bed linens, gilded furniture in the library, […]
Is Chestnut Hill the New East Passyunk?
It’s sometime after 5 on the Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend. That usually means Philly’s restaurants are quiet because everyone’s down the shore. But […]
On Philly Fatherhood: My Dad, Vacation King
Most of the year, there was Regular Dad. Regular Dad was kind of like Don Draper (minus the three-martini lunches and workday naps). He was […]
On Philly Fatherhood: My Dad and the Father Who Wasn’t
You brace yourself for a phone call; you don’t brace yourself for an email. But one day last year, this message from my father, with […]
On Philly Fatherhood: My Dad and the Talk
One summer night a long time ago, when I was 11, my father drove me down into Philly to see a baseball game. Dad had […]
Meet Philadelphia’s Most Infamous Snitch
Benny Martinez is sitting in a dimly lit booth, giving me some serious side-eye. This is the first time we’ve met. He doesn’t trust me. […]
Why We Love Philly Dads
Nothing about fatherhood is or ever has been easy — and so the better, more complicated answer incorporates all the things our fathers have given […]
On Philly Fatherhood: My Dad Sold Fords
A memory: my junior year at Penn. I go home for Christmas. I bring the first story I wrote for the professor who, upon reading […]
What My Dad Taught Me
Jesse Rendell, 36, attorney, on Ed Rendell, former governor: “Growing up, I would watch my father stop and listen to everyone. Homeless people, important people, […]
“This Was No Accident”
In the last hours she spent with her mother, Anne Bryan offered a sunny proposal: “Let’s go for a bike ride.” Nancy Winkler hesitated. It […]
Why I’m Embarrassed (Sort Of) to Live in the Philly Suburbs
I lean back in the salon chair, making small talk with Jacques as he squishes shampoo through my hair. We’ve ticked through most of the […]
Can John Middleton Make the Phillies Champs Again?
Standing in the sanctuary of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where blue bloods go to worship, John Middleton begins to cry. He has just looked up […]
Jim Kenney’s War on Cool
In retrospect, the rise of Jim Kenney had a certain #FeelTheBern quality to it. The giddy millennials. The underdog element. The AARP-eligible white guy with […]
Did LaFaye Gaskins Really Murder Albert Dodson?
LaFaye Gaskins, inmate number BF8329, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, a two-hour drive northwest of […]
Can’t Sleep? This Is Why, Philly.
A few months back, there was a story in the Wall Street Journal about the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry. Only it wasn’t about basketball, […]