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How To Spot A Theater
Preservation

How To Spot A Theater

Of the nearly 400 neighborhood theaters and movie palaces Philadelphia boasted, about 135 remain—as churches, as offices, sometimes even as theaters. Rachel Hildebrandt has categorized and mapped them all. Here’s our guide to finding them and interpreting what you’re seeing

All Smiles On Woodland Avenue
Photography

All Smiles On Woodland Avenue

Native daughter Theresa Stigale returns to “The Ave” to find most of the old shops gone, but a new diversity and vitality in its place. She talks to the optimistic shopkeepers about the life of one of Philadelphia’s great shopping streets

Why North Broad Matters
Architecture

Why North Broad Matters

The street of dreams, if ever there was one, writes Nathaniel Popkin, a chance to regain a central plot line of the Philadelphia story

Raising Expectations In The Lower Northeast
Urbanism

Raising Expectations In The Lower Northeast

One of the most diverse places in the city is growing; on the Daily this week we have coverage and analysis on plans for Frankford, Northwood, Lawncrest, Summerdale, and Oxford Circle


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