Philadelphia (Pa)

December 5, 2023

Celebrating Lucia in Sweden and Beyond

One of the country’s most culturally significant traditions is also observed nearly every place where Swedish communities exist. Imagine the darkest time of year in Sweden, […]
February 10, 2023

Who’s Rooting for Whom at the Super Bowl?

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will have plenty of celebrities cheering them on. Stars — they’re nothing like us. Except some of them, […]
March 4, 2022

For a State Representative, the Ideal Candidate

Malcolm Kenyatta, a politician in Pennsylvania, worried Matthew Miller was too good to be true after they connected on social media. He proved even better than […]
November 6, 2020

Pennsylvania Is the Best State

Ask anyone from Pennsylvania and they’ll tell you — they’re from Pennsylvania: the fifth largest state by population; second state admitted to the union; one of […]
March 27, 2020

QVC: Quarantine, Value, Convenience

After Governor Tom Wolf ordered all “non-life-sustaining” businesses in several counties in Pennsylvania to shutter last week — as one of more than a dozen governors […]
November 1, 2017

Style Q & A: The Roots’ Black Thought on Philadelphia Style. And His Beard.

Tariq Trotter, 44, a founder of the music collective the Roots (and the house band for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”), could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. […]
October 19, 2017

Social Q’s: Microaggressions at the Market

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES While I was waiting to check out at the market, an older white woman in front of me turned to the […]
October 18, 2017

Books of Style: Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’

In 1911, Robert Montgomery, a wealthy Philadelphia stockbroker, commissioned the architect Horace Trumbauer to build his family a home. He chose 300 acres of rolling pasture […]
March 3, 2017

Vows: An Islamic Romance, Soundtrack by Kanye and Drake

Vows By BROOKE LEA FOSTER In fall 2013, Samir Nurmohamed wanted desperately to go out with Salimah Nooruddin. There was only one problem: He had decided […]