PHILLY
EVENTS
Table of Contents: Philadelphia Magazine
June 2006
Dining, Food & Wine
Sea urchin, bone marrow, lamb’s tongue: Ansill is a delicious education in adventurous eating.You see them standing on the sidewalk outside...
Can the beloved South Street BYOB thrive under new management?When Greg Salisbury and Ross Essner of West Philly’s Rx acquired Django late last...
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It’s the weekend, and you have that most irresistible of fair-weather urges: to barbecue. For a mere $350, Barclay Prime will provide you and...
Champagne’s duality, both rich and refreshing, has catapulted the wine to international stardom. Now everyone can afford to find out...
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Eminent Domaine
A bite of baby lamb chop, a nibble of lobster tail with jalapeño salsa, a sip of toasty blanc de noirs from New Mexico —...
In his workshop near Allentown, Jonathan Simons carves cherry-wood into shapely kitchen utensils. It’s his hardworking “lazy”...
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Tasting notes for a new handcrafted gin, distilled in — of all places — Northeast Philly.What It Is: Bluecoat gin is produced in Northeast...
Ingredients to look for this month
Goat milk: You love goat cheese, so why not put goat milk on your Froot Loops? It’s giving bovine a fight...
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You don't have to go hungry when your favorite restaurant gets 86'd — here's where to head instead.Closed:...
Q: We want to celebrate out anniversary at a romantic restaurant with music and possibly dancing. We will be staying in the Rittenhouse area....
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Shopping & Style
As a general rule, no one over the age of, well, 12 should leave the house in shorts. But this season’s crop has made us reconsider.As a general...
Whether you’re lounging down the Shore or BBQ-ing down the block, the Exilim is the camera of summer.Whether you’re lounging down the...
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Call it an identity crisis, but we’re all over Philly boutiques that mix and match goods and services.Call it an identity crisis, but...
5 things to love this month
Fashiony ’Fairs
My all-time favorite summer event: Art Star’s decidedly un-country, silk-flower-less,...
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When Nives Riddles arrived in the U.S. from Croatia four years ago, she barely knew how to speak English. But she was blessed with innate artistic...
Nick Berardi and his café racer
Nick Berardi, the owner of Richard Nicholas Hair Studio, has always been ahead of the curve: Back in the...
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Pulse
Those looking for clues to the city’s big political guessing game — how many of the six quasi-announced Democratic mayoral candidates will...
The Pennsylvania Treasury Department is currently holding around $1 billion in unclaimed cash and property. While the state is supposed to make some...
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If you drive through Reading this month, you might see dozens of grown men sporting swastikas, SS insignia and vintage Nazi sidearms. Are Berks...
Buzz loves a good brawl, which is why we’re happy to report that “I’ll kick this guy’s ass!” were the first words...
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Other
Does the Pennsylvania Treasury have a chunk of your change? See inside.The Pennsylvania Treasury Department is currently holding around $1 billion in...
Friends of Hitler or bizarre hobbyists? Send us your vote.If you drive through Reading this month, you might see dozens of grown men sporting...
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Who is Bill Cosby? What's happened to the man who taught us to laugh at ourselves—and what do we do with him now?“He did a lot of...
Curtis Sittenfeld
(Random House; $22.95)
Sittenfeld’s endearing follow-up to last year’s best-selling debut Prep reads less like a...
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When Faith Hill and Tim McGraw sang their Top 10 single “Like We Never Loved At All” at the Wachovia Center earlier this month, it was...
Barley Sheaf Farm Estate & Spa
The vibe: English countryside with a twist. As you meander through the 100-plus-acre property — the former...
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It's not the grand debut you've been expecting, but the first dozen luxury shops at The Pier have quietly opened. Go this weekend to...
I know it sounds ridiculous, but recently I’ve been thinking about Jimmy Carter. Back in the ’70s, during the first oil crisis, Carter...
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Run, Carl, run. That’s been the sentiment around our office ever since Carl Singley sat down with us for the interview that appears on page 142....
Film
Loverboy
ThinkFilm
“I was like the great jewelers of the Byzantine, sorting through full stacks of stones,” says Emily, played by...
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New York Times best-seller William Lashner is a local lad, and his new thriller, Marked Man, has shady Philly attorney Victor Carl chasing exotic...
Wahl 4000
$60 at area Sears stores
Wahl has been providing barbers with professional clippers since 1919, so we hoped for great results from its...
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ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 10, 2004, an electrician named Fino Cachola was at a grocery store in Bala Cynwyd. Fino, a.k.a. “Chili Dawg,”...
There’s a CVS drugstore four minutes from Anita Morena’s apartment in Clementon, New Jersey. She used to fill her prescriptions there. But...
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PEOPLE OFTEN SAY THAT PHILADELPHIA IS SMALL. This isn’t really true, because we’re a city of 135 square miles and around 1.5 million...
IF HISTORIANS ARE WONDERING, it’s safe to say that the trial of Tammy Kitzmiller et al. v Dover Area School District et al.
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LBI
Surfing
Holyoke Avenue and the beach, Holgate.
Don’t come to Holyoke Avenue if you’re a kook who’s still perfecting his...
You could say Demy and Christi were an odd couple. Most people did. They made a striking pair: Christi, a petite Korean-American with beautiful...
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In his workshop near Allentown, Jonathan Simons carves cherry-wood into shapely kitchen utensils. It’s his hardworking “lazy”...
What It Is: Bluecoat gin is produced in Northeast Philly at Pennsylvania’s first craft distillery since Prohibition. Handpicked organic...
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Thai Iced Espresso
Barista David George of Mullica Hill’s Crescent Moon Coffee & Tea won first place in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Barista...
Champagne’s duality, both rich and refreshing, has catapulted the wine to international stardom. Now everyone can afford to find out why, with...
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Exit Interview: Is there any truth to the theory that you are, in fact, a post-pubescent Haley Joel Osment? And that this “Rob...
