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Philadelphia’s hotels turned six FIFA World Cup match days into one of Center City’s most profitable stretches in years, as hotel revenue climbed more than 50 percent above the same dates in 2025, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The numbers show a hospitality sector that capitalized fully on the moment. Occupancy averaged roughly 83 percent across the six match days, as soccer supporters from across the country and around the world filled Center City’s blocks.

Inside a century-old steel executive’s home in Phoenixville, dinner now comes with a side of history. The Boardroom Restaurant & Bottle Shop has taken up residence at 101 Bridge Street, inside a turn-of-the-century building that once housed a superintendent of the local steel industry, according to Main Line Today. The bones of that industrial past are still there, though they’ve been softened considerably.

I have always said that my husband and I would have met anyway, had we not met in grad school. The day after we got engaged, his mom gave me an assignment my husband drafted in grade school. The assignment was about his best friend. “Um, I know this name,” I said to my brand-new fiancé. “I know this name,” I said to his mom. I was at this friend’s wedding. I was pals with his wife. So I maintain had we not met through grad school, we would have met through this mutual friend.

Tom Burgoyne has spent three decades insisting he’s merely the Phillie Phanatic’s “best friend,” but an upcoming documentary finally persuaded him to reveal more about bringing Philadelphia’s beloved mascot to life, reports Matt Breen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Burgoyne’s path to the Phanatic started with a vague newspaper listing that simply read “mascots wanted,” no employer named, no location given. At the time he was six months removed from Drexel University, and selling computer supplies.

Six volunteers spent years defending Westtown Township’s oldest buildings. Now the township wants to defend against them. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the first strike came in the form of an email which landed in the inboxes of these volunteers. The emails stated that the Westtown Township Historical Commission‘s entire membership is up for removal, with supervisors set to vote next week.

For nearly twenty years, one casino has stood at the top of Pennsylvania’s gaming industry. Parx Casino in Bensalem opened in December 2006 and quickly claimed the market. It became the state’s top-grossing slot producer and has held that title every year since. For years, it led all Pennsylvania casinos in total revenue as well. That reign has quietly ended. June’s revenue report from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board shows Parx has slipped out of the state’s top tier by overall revenue.

Every time goalie Dan Vladař stops a puck in the Flyers playoffs, he’s wearing a piece of art painted by a kid who grew up rooting for the Flyers in Langhorne, writes Matt Breen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. That kid is Franny Drummond. He’s not on the roster or behind the bench. But his fingerprints are all over the ice. Drummond grew up a Flyers fan, played goalie at Neshaminy High, and chose art school in Miami over Division III hockey in Maine. Smart call.

When Pottstown couple Danielle Goodhart and Nicolas Mastromatto set out to plan their wedding, they skipped the usual country-wedding playbook entirely. Instead, they found their muse in an unlikely place: Beth Dutton, the fierce, unapologetic heroine of Yellowstone. As Goodhart put it, “I wanted it to feel country, but not mason-jar country,” writes Emily Goulet for Philadelphia Magazine. The result was a celebration at The Lake House Inn last fall.

Craving a movie night with a side of nostalgia? Bucks County residents don’t have to travel far to find it. Pennsylvania is home to about two dozen operating drive-in theaters, the most of any state, and six of them sit in eastern Pennsylvania, writes Kalena Thomhave for The Keystone. Two options stand out for their proximity: Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre in Orefield and Becky’s Drive-In in Walnutport, both roughly an hour’s drive from Doylestown.

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