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My Philadelphia: Icons

  Through our stories and essays, Metropolis serves as a chronicle of modern Philadelphia. Over the summer, under the title My Philadelphia, we ran a series of essays about five city neighborhoods. In another series, we profiled young Philadelphians who... (Comments)

My Philadelphia: Faces

In the second installment in our series of Philadelphia images is by photographer Alan Barr.  Barr is a born street photographer, traveling the city's neighborhoods, camera in hand, waiting for the right face and the right moment.  Thiis is slideshow represents a... (Comments)

My Philadelphia: Lawndale

Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods and Metropolis is celebrating that fundamental Philly trait with six essays by some of our best writers about the places where they live. We also have collected work by local photographers, who live to shoot the city -- warts and all. Look for them at the end of each essay. My Philadelphia opens with Elizabeth McGinley writing about Lawndale, her adopted neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. (Comments)

My Philadelphia: Kensington

By Dalyn Montgomery» I learned a new word; "Kenzo". This new word is even better when used in my favorite insider's movie title, "The Little Kenzo Who Could." Everyone else thinks Rocky was from South Philadelphia but now I know he was really from K&A. Lots of people are from Kensington. From, because they all left. (Comments)

The Italian Market

Natives complain that it's not really the Italian Market anymore, what with the infusion of Asian and Mexican merchants, who are taking over empty storefronts.  But, as this photo essay shows, there's lots of Italian left in the market located... (Comments)