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Winter Restaurant Openings That Have Us Excited

We’ve already seen several impressive rebirths this year. Hawthorne’s has reopened after a blaze forced the beer cafe and bruncherie to close for almost a year, and they’re […]

City Life

The Best Thing That Happened This Week

Sometimes we look around this city of ours, shake our heads, and say, “Why?” Why, for example, is the front-running candidate for mayor, Lynne Abraham, […]

Restaurants

South Street’s Hot Diggity Closes

Keith Garabedian is closing his South Street hot dog shop after three-and-a-half praise filled years. Hot Diggity immediately seemed like it had always been on […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Getting Married When Pope Francis Is In Philly? Check Out These Wedding-Planning Tips

If you are getting married in Philadelphia the same September weekend that will see the city play host to Pope Francis’ visit, well, then we […]

Restaurants

50 Best Restaurants Writeups Are All Online

The 2015 50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia list has been updated to include images and writeups on all 5o restaurants. Check out the entire list […]

Restaurants

The Dirt: What To Get At The Farmer’s Market This Weekend

It’s officially soup season, people. Not only is soup the perfect warming food for cold weather, it’s also filling and healthy if you’re watching your […]

Restaurants

Travel + Leisure Calls Philadelphia “America’s Next Great Food City”

So Philadelphia, it seems, is having something of a moment. There was the Bon Appetit piece on Reading Terminal Market. There was the New York […]

City

Lyft Planning to Launch in Philadelphia

Lyft, the ride-hailing service that is the chief competitor to Uber, is planning to launch in Philadelphia. Billy Penn reported on a Craigslist ad asking […]

City

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending January 16th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

Property

Philly’s Average House Values Grew Like an 11-Year-Old Boy’s Mustache Last Quarter

Much like when your 11-year-old brother showed you that minute we-can-sort-of-see-it “growth” of hair on his upper lip that he dubbed a mustache, a recent fourth-quarter analysis of […]

Citified

Friday City Reads

Local Reads: “Darrell Clarke wants to restructure the government. Does anybody else?” City Council President Darrell Clarke is hoping to push through legislation soon that would […]

City

What They’re Saying About the Penn State Deal

Earlier today, the NCAA and the state of Pennsylvania reached a deal that restores all 112 wins vacated in the of the Jerry Sandusky child […]

City

Deal Restores Penn State’s Vacated Football Wins

Joe Paterno is once again the winningest coach in major college football history. In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, the […]

Restaurants

New Menu Items at Cheu Noodle Bar

Working towards opening Bing Bing Dim Sum on East Passyunk doesn’t mean Cheu Noodle Bar is stagnating. The Washington Square West noodle shop is showing off six […]

Property

Property’s Weekend Agenda: Free Admission to the Ben Franklin Museum

It’s no secret: Everyone loves Benjamin Franklin. Whether it’s the famed quote about beer (sorry, ya’ll) or that whole key and key thing, we cannot […]