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Did Bill Marimow Ask for $1 Million to Leave the Inquirer?
Bill Marimow. Photo | AP / Joseph Kaczmarek The two sides in the dispute among owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com got hung up on one issue in last-ditch settlement talks:...
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Inquirer Ownership Battle: “Darling … Eliminate the Daily News”
Lewis Katz (center) walks to court in November. Photo | AP / Matt Rourke. According to an email leaked to Philadelphia magazine, Nancy Phillips, as her long-time companion Lewis Katz was contemplating...
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Newspaper Guild Jumps Into Inquirer / Daily News Ownership Fray
The Philadelphia Newspaper Guild, which represents more than 500 employees at the company, filed a petition to intervene today in their parent company’s ongoing ownership dispute. A status hearing...
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Dad Files: How to Stay Happy in Marriage—Even When You Have Kids
Shutterstock On an average day, I wake up a little after 6 a.m., make myself a cup of coffee and prepare breakfast—oatmeal with bananas, or maybe eggs (followed by bananas)—for my 18-month-old boys. I...
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The Fight for the Future of Philadelphia’s Newspapers
CRASH OF THE TITANSClockwise from upper left, Lexie Norcross, Bob Hall, Bill Marimow, Nancy Phillips,Lewis Katz and George Norcross.Illustration by Britt Spencer The meeting is lore, now: a story about...
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Dad Files: Why Every Philly Parent Should Check Out Nest
Parents and kids play at Nest / Photo via Facebook Our boys ran in circles at first, so overwhelmed by their options they couldn’t settle in and play with any single toy till they inventoried them all....
View ArticlePenn Dean Reveals Third Student Suicide Since End of Last Semester
In the wake of the high-profile suicides of Penn students Madison Holleran and Elvis Hatcher, Philadelphia magazine has learned that a third university student had committed suicide since the end of...
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Without a Trace
Richard and Danielle six months before they vanished. To most anyone watching, they were just another couple, out on a Saturday night at Abilene’s on South Street, drinking a few beers and watching a...
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The Tragedy of Madison Holleran and Suicides at Penn
Family, friends and scenes from Madison Holleran’s Instagram feed. Doors were beginning to open for Madison Holleran. She racked up straight As, ran track, and pushed her Northern Highlands Regional...
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Tom Wolf: Perfect Stranger
The candidate in his home in Mt. Wolf. Photograph by Colin LentonIn 1957, Tom Wolf and his father attended a baseball game at Connie Mack Stadium. Wolf’s team, the Phillies, faced the St. Louis...
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John and Bonnie Raines: The Whistleblowers Whose 1971 FBI Raid Anticipated...
John and Bonnie Raines, photographed by Wesley Mann John Raines sat in the family station wagon, parked in a dark lot on the Swarthmore campus, waiting to see if his wife would return to him, or if...
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FBI on Renewed Effort in Imbo-Petrone Case: “The Idea Here Is to Start Fresh”
Federal investigators opened a new effort this week to find out what happened to Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone, the couple who went missing 10 years ago after departing a South Street bar. As the...
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Richard DeCoatsworth: How a Hero Cop Fell
Photograph by Josh Ritchie Richard DeCoatsworth anticipated another great day. The 21-year-old rookie cop was six months into a new job he loved, and the sun shone bright that morning in 2007, through...
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Rock Lititz Studio: Where Taylor Swift and Usher Get Ready to Play
James “Winky” Fairorth inside his studio’s cavernous rehearsal space. Photograph by Eric Prine The ducks in the park, the old-timey clock at the town’s heart, the rustic storefronts and occasional...
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The Curious Case of Nicky Isen
Left: Illustration by Peter Strain. Right: The I. Brewster Gallery near 21st and Race. Photograph by Christopher Leaman The stakes are so high, everyone wears funeral smiles — gray grins, barely there...
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Racial Profiling on the Main Line
Clockwise from top left: Keith Taylor; Muneera Walker; Anita Friday; Harry Mobley Jr. with his sons Aseda, Omosesan and Akinyele Adebamgbe; Loraine Carter; Schoolly D, Crystal Blunt with herson...
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“This Was No Accident”
The corner of 22nd and Market streets, June 5, 2013. | Photograph courtesy of Michael Bryant/Associated Press. In the last hours she spent with her mother, Anne Bryan offered a sunny proposal: “Let’s...
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Generational Poverty: Trying to Solve Philly’s Most Enduring Problem
Mattie McQueen in her West Philadelphia home with three of her 13 grandchildren: left to right, Jaleehah, 5, Mayliyah, 9, and Khaalid “Booda” Casey, 4 | Photograph by Neal Santos Mattie McQueen was...
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How Luis Cortés Is Quietly Building a New Notre Dame in the Heart of North...
Photograph by Adam Jones When the governor called the Reverend Luis Cortés Jr. in the summer of 2000, the conversation was quick. “Reverend Cortés,” said Governor Tom Ridge. “I have a friend I’d like...
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Do They Still Make Republicans Like Tom Ridge?
Tom Ridge. Photograph by Matt Stanley On election night, as the foreign country around him lay sleeping, Tom Ridge stayed up all night, watching TV. “I wanted to know who my president was going to be,”...
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