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How Philly Became the Capital of American Squash

With new facilities, more funding, and obsessive diehards, Philadelphia has become the epicenter of the American squash world. Next up, fostering a new generation of homegrown talent.


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This Philly Trans Woman Launched a GoFundMe to Help Her Escape to Canada

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Rittenhouse Residents Rage Over People Grilling in the Park

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Climate Change Is Here. Philadelphia Isn’t Ready

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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.

News

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!

News

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.

News

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

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


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?


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.

News

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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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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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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Philly Rats Just Aren’t as Ambitious as New York’s and D.C.’s

Plus: National Cheesesteak Day, zombie Rite Aids, and Trump takes in some wrestling.

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