The Latest in People

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  “The Sultan” speaks

  If you gamble on sports, meet the South Philly bookmaker with all the angles

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  Five questions: Aaron Hirschhorn

  Meet the Philly native who hit it real big on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’

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  Wanted: Headcases with a laptop

  Are you psycho enough to write for Philadelphia Weekly?

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  Five questions: Stephen Forzato

  ‘This kid, he didn’t deserve to die like this’

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  Black mass

  A peek inside the Love City Satanists, Philadelphia’s rapidly growing lovers of all things Lucifer

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  Five Questions: Maura McCarthy

  FPC's new executive director has plan to bring the green back to Philly parks.

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  Sex slave: Few work harder to normalize sex than Susana Mayer and her Erotic Literary Salon

  It’s an extremely busy time for Susana Mayer.  The Philly-based sexologist is in the midst of her new book and, in supplying information for this story, was also in the throes of finalizing everything for said book to hungry publishers.  The book, “Does Sex Have an Expiration Date? Rethinking Low Libido for...

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  Magic Man: A deep dive inside the interdisciplinary mind of artist Rashaad Newsome

  Not long ago, I read an interview with multi-genre interdisciplinary artist-singer Joseph Keckler. In town for “Let Me Die,” a joint showcase of 2019’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Opera Philadelphia’s O19, he complained about the vague identifiers that define his craft. “People come up to me and say ‘Oh you’re really a conceptual...

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  Get to know: Union head coach Jim Curtin

  He may ply his trade in Chester, but Union head coach and Queen Village resident Jim Curtin tells us his favorite things to get into at home in Philadelphia:

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  F%&k like a champ: The science behind being a beast in the sack when marijuana is in your system

  Marijuana is classified by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as a Schedule I drug, which means the agency believes it has a high potential for abuse and no medical benefits.Both this legal status and a lack of funding have slowed research on the substance in general, much less its interactions with sexuality.