The Fillmore
When we heard that someone was converting a former World War II munitions factory in Fishtown into a 2,500-person music venue, we pictured a drab, soulless cavern (cough, Electric Factory). Thank God we were wrong. The concert hall is sleek, the bars are well staffed (never miss three songs while waiting for a drink again!), and the sight lines are so good, you won't find a bad seat in the house. It's the all-grown-up-yet-totally-cool venue we've been waiting for. 29 East Allen Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123, thefillmorephilly.com.
Juliet Hope Wayne
This cool West Philly seamstress will come to your house and teach your kids and their friends how to make stuffed animals, messenger bags and doll outfits. Before her visit, she'll talk through design ideas with the kids, and once she arrives, you can sit back and have a glass of wine: She brings all the fabric, scissors, rulers and real sewing machines, not those silly starter models that don't work. Service areas include Philadelphia, Delaware County and the Main Line. Juliethopewayne@gmail.com. Philadelphia, PA
Frankford Avenue, Fishtown
Thirteenth Street is overpopulated with Jersey imports and Passyunk Avenue is more about the food, so when you want to bar-hop, put on your hipster-deflection shields and hit this corridor, which is dotted with great, unfussy spots like Fishtown Tavern (bring-your-own-vinyl night!), Bottle Bar East (half-priced happy hour drafts!), Johnny Brenda's (great pool table!) and Sancho Pistola's (nachos!). And if Uber is surging through the roof, fear not: The Market-Frankford El stop is here and gets you to City Hall (or Jefferson Station, for you suburbanites) in under eight minutes. Philadelphia, PA 19125,
Spa Terme di Aroma
A chair massage at this Old City spa is quite possibly the best $15 you'll ever spend: Expert hands melt away tension while you zone out for 15 minutes. Call ahead and you can usually score an appointment just a few minutes in advance. 32 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, termediaroma.com.
Dtown Tech
This shop will fix all your portable gadgets (phones, tablets, laptops) with that elusive tech-pro ease, offering services from virus removal to damaged-part replacement. The straight-talking staff does its best to always get your machine and your normal heart rate back to you in 24 hours. 17 East Oakland Avenue, Doylestown, PA 18901, dtowntech.com.
Pristine Hand Carwash Lube & Detail Center
Instead of the usual harsh spinning scrubbers and high-powered sprayers in an automatic tunnel, at Pristine you'll find a team of workers, sponges up, ready to carefully soap away stubborn street grime. How carefully? Just ask the owners of all those fancy Italian sports cars in line with you. 1000 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002, facebook.com/pages/Pristine-Hand-Carwash-Lube-Detail-Center/269314083110116.
November Project
Head to the Art Museum at 6:25 on Wednesday mornings or Franklin Field at the same time on Fridays, and you'll see a fitness flash mob: more than 100 (crazy?) people doing burpees and squats in unison. It's all part of the Facebook-and-Twitter-fueled fitness movement, now in 17 cities, that came to Philly earlier this year. The 40-minute boot-camp-style workouts are open to all and totally free. november-project.com.
Clark Park
On sunny Saturdays, this nine-acre West Philly park turns into a scene from Game of Thrones if Game of Thrones were peopled with kids and propped with foam weapons. The game a make--believe battle royale on the grass is called LARP (Live Action Role Playing), but that's hardly the only amusement you'll find here: There's volleyball; there's frisbee; there's petanque (like bocce, but French). And if you just want to sit in one spot all day (you lazy bastard), there's chess beside the Charles Dickens statue. Game on! 43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue, friendsofclarkpark.org.
Ame Salon and Spa
Hitting up the "drip bar" is more than just Rihanna's latest obsession. The process fluids mixed with vitamins, taken intravenously seems to have legit health benefits. (We felt an instant boost that lasted all week!) Nurse Michael Anne McAllister spent years working with cancer patients and saw the power of this liquid firsthand, so she started Longevity Aesthetics, a business that treats everyone from those who are sick (cancer, Lyme disease) to your average run-down multi-tasker (i.e., all of us). According to McAllister, benefits include energy, glowing skin, shiny hair and our favorite removal of brain fog. 111 Waynewood Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087, amesalonandspa.com/index.html.
Main Line School Night
Instructor Karen Strauss walks seniors and the tech-phobic through iPhone and iPad setup, app education (what the hell is this Instagram?), and getting the most out of your tech toys. 260 Gulph Creek Road, Radnor, PA 19087, mainlineschoolnight.org/cms/home.
Zoe
You'd drive an hour to hit the Saks outlet. Zo isn't much further and is way better. The stalwart which has been keeping Princetonians fashionable for decades carries the brands that the hippest celebs are constantly photographed in (Proenza Schouler, Lanvin, 3.1 Phillip Lim) and has end-of-season sales where basically everything is wait for it up to 70 percent off. 11 Hulfish Street, Princeton, NJ 08542, shopzoeonline.com.
Le Virtu
Whether you want taccozzette as delicate as cashmere or a four-foot-long spaghetti tube with out-and-out bounce, Joe Cicala knows how to roll the dough. 1927 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19148, levirtu.com.
Totem Brand Co.
This is where you'll find attire for the quietly stylish man: hard-wearing boots by Danner and Red Wing, limited-edition denim each signed and numbered by Raleigh, Patagonia outerwear, and the artisanal add-ons (Steven Alan sunglasses, Billykirk bike-frame pouches) to pair with it all. 535 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, totembrandco.com.
The Good King Tavern
The kitchen at this Bella Vista bar is open until 1 a.m. every single night. That, coupled with elevated tavern fare get the chickpea pancakes, well-priced steak frites or, if available, steak tartare makes it the place for grown-ups to go post-tipple. 614 South 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, thegoodkingtavern.com.
Fashion Forward Designer Resale
Ayana Hamilton's boutique is the Ritz of resale. Color-organized racks brim with pristine picks from fashion's heavy hitters. There are major investment pieces (a barely used camel-colored Celine Phantom bag for $2,500) and pinch-yourself deals, like a $90 Herms scarf that, cough, may or may not still be there. 7906 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118, .