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Sixers Announce Plans for New Arena, WNBA Bid Day After Center City Arena Plans Nixed

The Sixers will stay in South Philly.

Sports Illustrated · Jan 13, 2025

‘Abbott Elementary’ stars and local working actors came together on Philly’s SAG-AFTRA picket line: ‘Enough is enough’

PHILADELPHIA — Lisa Ann Walter now stars in a hit television show, and she’s appeared in a number of popular films over the last few decades. But, the actor recalled Thursday at a rally in Center City Philadelphia, raising her four children in Los Angeles earlier in her career meant…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 20, 2023

How former bus driver Stephen Edwards became a world-champion boxing trainer

PHILADELPHIA — The bus usually followed a route that started in North Philadelphia, rumbled south into Center City, and headed east for Penn’s Landing. Stephen Edwards learned how to maneuver that SEPTA bus through the narrow passages on 23rd Street, how to turn it onto Ridge Avenue, and then deal…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 24, 2023

He served pizzas out of his apartment window for charity. Now, he’s donated his Good Pizza idea to Philabundance

PHILADELPHIA — While stuck in his second-floor Center City apartment during the height of the pandemic in 2020, graduate student Ben Berman worked on his pizza recipe.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 28, 2022

A full look at 'Harry Potter: The Exhibition' at the Franklin Institute: Incendio or Riddikulus?

PHILADELPHIA — From a cupboard under the stairs in England to the Great Hall of Hogwarts Castle, a transfiguration spell has been cast on the Franklin Institute, turning the Center City museum into a magical maze of wizarding wonder for the world premiere of "Harry Potter: The Exhibition."

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 21, 2022