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Philly’s Best BBQ Spots: A Guide to Sides

Even in this Yankee city, barbecue is a summertime staple. And while any dilettante can find good ribs in Philly these days (and brisket, too), […]

City Life

The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The NRA Took a Hit

City Life

No Strike: Newspaper Guild, PMN Reach Tentative Agreement

There will be no Philadelphia newspaper strike after all. On Friday night — after an exhausting 11-hour negotiating session with a federal mediator, and 25 […]

City Life

Sixers Made the Best Possible Pick

The Sixers made the absolute best pick they could have made in taking center Jahlil Okafor with the third pick in the NBA draft. Now, […]

Restaurants

The Dirt: What To Get At The Farmers Market This Weekend

It’s as if the Supreme Court timed things on purpose, because it’s not just the sidewalks of the Gayborhood and your Facebook feed that are […]

Restaurants

North Bowl’s Second Annual Tot Chef Competition Is Coming

Like their french fried cousin, tater tots are the ultimate comfort food. Little did we know, however, that tots are also the base around which […]

Restaurants

Drury Beer Garden and Opa Get New Summer Menus

Chef Bobby Saritsoglou is making some menu changes for summer at Opa and the Drury Beer Garden. Drury gets a full new menu and Opa has new lunch […]

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City Life

What If You Could Get from Philly to D.C. on Public Transit?

There are a few ways to get from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.: You can shell out the dough for Amtrak (expensive!), sit in traffic on […]

City Life

(Updated) #MarriageEquality: The Reaction

[Updated with reaction and slideshow from a rally at the National Constitution Center, below.] Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that marriage is a fundamental […]

Business

3 Reasons Alcohol at Work is No Biggie

I’ve been watching a lot of Mad Men lately, and while the smoking and sexual harassment in the Madison Avenue 1960s looks archaic by today’s […]

City Life

SEPTA Investigating Arrest and Handcuffing of Man Holding Baby

UPDATE, 9:50 p.m., 6/26/15: SEPTA has released surveillance footage of the incident preceding the bystander video that shows one of its officers grabbing the man’s […]

Property

Holy Bjarke Ingels! Starchitect-Designed Office Building Coming to The Navy Yard

Update: Here’s a look at the renderings of the “gravity defying” 1200 Intrepid. As you know, the building is designed by global architecture firm Bjarke Ingels […]

Citified

Darrell Clarke Moves to Quash Big Tax Reform Plan

City Council President Darrell Clarke has forcefully come out against the ambitious plan spearheaded by Paul Levy and Jerry Sweeney to overhaul the city’s tax […]

Property

Property’s Photo of the Week: It’s a Beautiful Day in the Gayborhood

For too long, I lived in the Ann Veal bland-type of cities. Intersections like this with permanent art is one more reason I love this […]

City Life

Philadelphia Has Officially Ruined the Fourth of July

On a too-humid day late in May, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, a Wawa bigwig, various other city officials and the media, including us, gathered in […]