Stephanie Farr covers Philly Culture for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She writes about the people, places, things, and ideas that make Philly and its suburbs weird, wild, and wonderfully unique.
From a press conference heard round the world to a city sanitation worker who touched our hearts, here are 10 good things that happened in Philly this year.
In the spirit of the race, many runners ran less than 11 miles, but called reports of them doing otherwise "fake news." The event raised more than $50,000 for charity.