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Best of Philly 2013: Picks For Brides

Well, since we’ve now spent two weeks yapping about the 40 events and promotions going on for Philly mag‘s 40th year of Best of Philly, […]

City Life

Donovan McNabb Looks Back

“When I got drafted, I was a block over,” a wistful Donovan McNabb says from a conference room at the Marriott Marquis overlooking Times Square. […]

Philadelphia Wedding

ASK THE EXPERT: Who Pays for the Honeymoon?

Q: My fiancé and I assumed we’d be paying for the honeymoon ourselves, but people have mentioned that the groom’s parents traditionally pay for it. […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Get Wedding-Ready Abs With These 3 Exercises and 3 Foods

Fact: Good posture comes from your core. Horsham Athletic Club‘s Jewel Kessler offers three abs-shredding moves for posture-perfect pics on your wedding day and beyond […]

City Life

The Online Gardener

Come summer, when suburbanites start eyeing each others’ expansive green lawns, homeowners from Society Hill to Rittenhouse Square get down to grandstanding the best way […]

Philadelphia Wedding

ASK THE EXPERT: How Do We Deposit Our Wedding Checks Before I Change My Name?

Q: We’ve already gotten checks as gifts—and some of them are in my married name. I won’t be changing it until we return from the […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Marisa & Gbenga at Cairnwood Estate

This week, from the fall/winter 2013 issue of Philadelphia Wedding, we bring you the beautiful wedding of Marisa and Gbenga Okusanya at Cairnwood Estate in […]

City Life

Philadelphia Home: The New Modern Family Home in Chestnut Hill

From the outside, the house looked lovely—a grand stone facade, a carriage house with ivy snaking up its walls, a spacious back terrace featuring a […]

City Life

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: the Deliciously Eclectic Cheu Noodle Bar

Some restaurants are just what they seem, no more and no less. They send out fajitas and margarita pitchers with mariachi bands, or 24-ounce porterhouses […]

City Life

Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Fickle Fare at Fitler Dining Room

Some food corners are cursed. A property will pass from owner to owner, concept to concept, and nobody can make it work. Part of succeeding […]

City Life

Men’s Fashion is Back in Philadelphia

It was one of those long-awaited evenings in April when it finally felt like spring had come, the type of night when the whole city […]

City Life

The Inimitable Michael Solomonov

On any given night, a customer who walks through the verdant, manicured grounds of I.M. Pei’s Society Hill Towers and into the restaurant called Zahav […]

City Life

Can Adderall Save the Boomers?

It’s been 25 years since I last ingested an illegal substance. In all that time, I haven’t gotten so much as a parking ticket. I […]

City Life

Brewster: The Quintessential Cape Cod Weekend Getaway

How to Get to Brewster from Phiadelphia: You can drive (seven hours) to Brewster, or Amtrak (six hours) or fly (an hour and change) to […]

City Life

War in the Supreme Court: Ron Castille and Seamus McCaffery Just Can’t Get Along

Late last year, Ron Castille, chief justice of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, decided he couldn’t take it any longer. Seamus McCaffery—one of seven justices on the […]