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Aerosmith, Panic! at the Disco, Post Malone, and the Vans Warped Tour. They’re all coming to the Shore this year, with plenty of other concerts and festivals in tow.

Of course, you can’t kick back without the best local food on hand. And this year, restaurant critic Craig LaBan takes a look at the best Italian eats at the Jersey Shore.

And most importantly, where should you party at the Jersey Shore? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

Time for a new suit? Let fashionista Elizabeth Wellington help you with some of these fashionable, and of course waterproof, suggestions.

Atlantic City can be expensive, but Amy Rosenberg finds the best places to spend your hard-earned money, including a tasty chocolate shop and the happy hour spot with half-price appetizers.

And in celeb-favorite Cape May, craft breweries are giving a new reason to say cheers.

Over the past several years, federal authorities have quietly exposed a long-running bribery scheme involving Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office employees, who in exchange for cash and other perks, gave a select group of real estate developers a leg up in the competitive business of bidding on properties seized by the city. The investigation has netted convictions against five individuals since 2013 and has led to the firing of a top manager from Sheriff Jewell Williams’ staff. But the most senior city official implicated by the FBI probe remains in his post, uncharged. Prosecutors refer to him in court filings only as “Public Official No. 1.”

Joe Biden returns to Philadelphia this weekend, bookending his Pittsburgh rally with another event that shows how he is emphasizing Pennsylvania. This preview of his trip from Jonathan Tamari looks at where Biden stands after his initial burst of campaigning, and how the Democratic field is handling the early front runner.

Jorge Gutierrez calls himself an UndocuQueer activist, and is committed to expanding the rights of others like him who get caught up in the nation’s immigration-enforcement system. This weekend, transgender, bisexual, and gay Latinos from around the country will meet in Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Familia advocate group, to discuss the special circumstances they face in engaging with ICE and other agencies.

After he was exonerated for killing a young woman, this Philadelphia suburbanite turned to making jewelry, including Super Bowl ring-sized mementos for others who have been cleared.

Philadelphia just got a lot closer to becoming the first U.S. city to enact a worker protection bill on the cutting edge of labor-oriented anti-poverty laws being considered around the country. The “just-cause” bill, focused on the parking industry and approved by Council on Thursday, would require employers to provide an appropriate reason for firing an employee.

Details of the allegations behind Rev. Armand Garcia’s sexual assault of a teenage girl at his former Roxborough parish five years ago were hazy back in March, after church officials suspended him from St. Martin of Tours Parish in the city’s Summerdale section, amid an investigation. But testimony of the woman — offered publicly for the first time Thursday — serves as the backbone of the government’s case.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday they intend to retry Michael Rohana, the Delaware man accused of snapping the thumb of an ancient Chinese terra cotta warrior. Jurors were unable to reach a verdict during his last trial after becoming mired in questions on how much a broken thumb was worth.

Wood-Mode, a cabinet maker that had been in business since 1942 and was the largest employer in rural Snyder County, told all of its 900 employees to collect their stuff and leave on Monday afternoon.

Muslim students at George School in Bucks County created an Islamic prayer center inside a historic Quaker meeting house after the students had difficulty finding a place to pray on campus.

Richard Tyler presided over the founding of Philadelphia’s modern system of historic preservation, defending it against lawsuits and the city’s inclination to demolish everything old. He played a role in saving both the Lit Bros. building and the Reading Terminal, and laid the groundwork for creating the first historic districts, writes architecture critic Inga Saffron.

The members of the Inquirer Editorial Board have made their decision. To them, there is only one, clear choice for mayor of Philadelphia. And that person is already in the office.

There’s good news for people like our own Trudy Rubin who care about the state of democracy within the U.S.'s European allies: Italy’s nationalist leader Matteo Salvini appears more of an opportunist than an ideologue, chipping away at democratic norms but unable to pull the entire democratic system down.

After a minor encounter in Center City traffic, Michael Smerconish saw a man explode with a furious anger that he couldn’t control. He was convinced, he wrote in Philadelphia magazine, that only the absence of firearms left them both alive.

Atlantic City has a legacy of producing successful minority baseball players. A legacy that is in danger of dying out, the Press of Atlantic City reports.

Exit stage left: Iconic, weird and uniquely Philly, the Trocadero will most certainly be missed, writes A.D. Amorosi in Philadelphia Weekly.