Stephanie Farr

2 days ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Sometimes when I walk the streets of Old City, I imagine the people of colonial times who walked those roads before me, before Philadelphia was Philly and before this nation secured its liberty and identity. I mostly think about the smells folks had to endure before indoor plumbing, but I also wonder how those men and women traversed the cobblestone streets in their heeled shoes when I look like a wombat in flip-flips doing it in sneakers.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Whenever I went to an arcade as a kid the first thing I ran to was a sit-down racing game called Cruis’n USA, a game so slick and so quick it didn’t have time for all of the letters in “Cruising.” I felt cool playing that game, where I could pick my own car and track. Not Speed Racer cool, but close.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

The city’s Parks & Recreation Department is seeking out-of-this world ideas for potential businesses that could bring life — extraterrestrial or otherwise — back to the circular building at LOVE Park known as the “flying saucer.” Faced with the question: “What would you do with the Saucer if the sky was the limit?” Philadelphians on social media this week have suggested everything from turning it into a museum (one devoted to meats and cheeses and/or skateboarding) to making it into an actual...

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Sometimes it feels like if Philadelphia takes on one more national or international event in 2026 — even if it’s a wafer-thin one, like a breath strip-eating contest — this city might explode. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited for it all: the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, the FIFA World Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, and the NCAA Division I college basketball tournament. Or at least I want to be excited. I’m not sure why that spark within me hasn’t ignited yet.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Greg Ferrari is a normal Delco teenager — he’s got a cool mess of floppy brown hair, plays baseball, and attends Interboro High School — but on Monday he did something that no other teen in the history of Delaware County (or perhaps the world) has ever done: He testified in court about bearing witness to a motorist allegedly rage pooping on the hood of another car.