City Life Everything You Always Wanted to Know About The Pleasure Chest* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) For Valentine’s Day, Amy Cohen takes us inside the oldest sex shop in Philadelphia and one of the longest-running small businesses in Rittenhouse Square
City Life Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden Cemeteries and the Modern City Underneath many of Philadelphia’s community playgrounds lay the remains of burial grounds lost in relocation. Kimberly Haas takes a look at this oddly common confluence of the living and the dead
City Life Happy New Year From Hidden City The Hidden City team is taking a short winter vacation. We’ll be back on Tuesday, January 21
City Life On South Broad, Former Lippincott Mansion Hits the Right Note Stacia Friedman takes us inside one of South Broad Street’s most mysterious and magnificent historic mansions.
City Life There’s No Place Like Home: Unlocking a Door to the Past on Spruce Street Stacia Friedman rediscovers her family’s former home through the building’s history
City Life Event Planner Converts Old Rope Factory Into Party Central Adaptive reuse meets dancehall DJs at Warehouse on Watts in North Philly
City Life Op-ed: Spreading the Deadbox Gospel, One Bottle Cap at a Time In this essay Len Davidson makes the case for resurrecting a long-lost Philly street game that once contributed to the vibrance of neighborhood life and the human connection of row house culture
City Life Concrete Cowboy of Southwest Philly Finds a New Home at Bartram’s Garden After being ousted from vacant, City-owned land, an urban cowboy and his posse of young protégées find a permanent place to hang their hats. Sam Newhouse has the news
