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  • Breaking Ground

    Modern structures add energy to historic districts. Chestnut Hill is hardly synonymous with modern architecture, yet within this largely Victorian and pre-Depression era neighborhood are several unabashedly modern structures, built since the 1950s and designed by some of Philadelphia’s best…

  • The Cats Came Back

    CAN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BECOME A FORCE AGAIN IN PHILADELPHIA? King Samir Shabazz, 35, stands in his bedroom readying for war. He slides on his black military pants, puts on the matching cargo shirt and twists the shirt’s buttons…

  • The Ice Man

    After all these years, do we really know Bob Clarke? by Brian Hickey The scenario borders on unbelievable, if only because Philadelphians think they know the man involved, inside and out. He’s long been part of the city’s competitive fabric,…

  • City

    November Street wins a seat on City Council succeeding legendary civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore in the 5th District. His decision to challenge the Philadelphia icon attracts initial scorn. Despite failing health, Moore runs but dies before the May…

  • City

    November Street wins a seat on City Council succeeding legendary civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore in the 5th District. His decision to challenge the Philadelphia icon attracts initial scorn. Despite failing health, Moore runs but dies before the May…

  • Clothes Make the Man

      There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it is a mecca of precisely modulated urban hipster cool, a…

  • Clothes Make the Man

        There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it is a mecca of precisely modulated urban hipster cool,…

  • Clothes Make the Man

      There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it is a mecca of precisely modulated urban hipster cool, a…

  • Clothes Make the Man

    Like Jack and his magic beanstalk, Urban Outfitters President Richard Hayne turned a few hippie beans into a hip $700 million retail empire. There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than…

  • Clothes Make the Man

      There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it is a mecca of precisely modulated urban hipster cool, a…