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PHOTOS: Gorgeous Wedding Cakes Inspired by Your Favorite Bridal Accessory

COMPLEMENTARY CAKES: Whether it’s the dream shoes you just had to have or the family heirloom you’ll wear down the aisle, give a nod to […]

Shoppist

Philly’s 5 Hottest Import Shops

Morihata Center City | 428 North 13th Street The first thing you see in this high-design Japanese import store is a grand wall of unbelievably […]

City Life

Just Who Is Maria Papadakis?

I’m roaming around a giant warehouse by the Delaware River, looking for Maria Papadakis. Maria isn’t hard to spot when she’s onstage with a mic in her […]

City Life

Meet the Philly Start-Ups Leading the Entrepreneurship Era

Something big is happening. It’s not obvious, and it’s nothing tactile—but it’s most definitely a shift in the way we normally do things around here. […]

Herbert and Catherine Shaible, members of the First Century Gospel Church, watched their two sons die because they refused to let them see a doctor.
City Life

Why Did the Schaibles Let Their Children Die?

On the night of April 18th, Detective Brian Peters of the Philadelphia homicide unit saw something strange—something he’d never witnessed before—when he interviewed Herbert Schaible. […]

City Life

ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio Was a Nobody in High School

My name is … Salvatore Anthony Nicholas Paolantonio. “Sal Pal” for short. I was named after … my mother’s oldest brother, Salvatore Giardina, who served […]

City Life

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Xi’an Sizzling Woks

It’s not every day that you come across a condiment that makes you do a double take. Heck, it’s not every year. But think about […]

City Life

The New Philadelphia Nightlife

River Boat Tours Misc. Nocturnal Frivolity | Docks at Rittenhouse and Penn’s Landing Whether you prefer your cruise of the Schuylkill or Delaware to be narrated […]

City Life

The 10 Most Philly Coaches Ever

This is a strange moment in Philadelphia sports. For the first time, all four of our major teams are led by rookie managers or coaches—the […]

City Life

West Philly’s Quest for the Automotive X Prize

The bell rang at 3 p.m. Kids burst from their second-floor classrooms at the West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering and […]

Shrimp and crawfish etouffee at Carmine's Creole Cafe Act II
Restaurants

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Carmine’s Creole Cafe, Act II

With scaled-down ambitions and pumped up flavors, John Mims comes back to Narberth. But is this homecoming what he really wants? The best place to […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Sarah & Faiz at the Horticulture Center at Fairmount Park

We were flipping through some past weddings that took place at the Horticulture Center and stumbled upon this one from a past fall issue. One […]

City Life

Off the Cuff: October 2013

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the First World War, and we are beginning to see new Woodrow Wilson biographies and other books about […]

City Life

Lynne Abraham Has the Constitution of an Ox

My name is … Lynne—that’s L-Y-N-N-E—Abraham. Almost everybody forgets to put the “e” on there. When people referred to me as the “Deadliest D.A.” … […]

City Life

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Carmine’s Creole Café Act II Turns It Up to 11

There are many food menus at Carmine’s Creole Café Act II, and none of them list the most important thing John Mims cooks there. This […]