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Bernie Robbins Is Having a Seriously Big Sale On Diamond Engagement Rings and Bridal Jewelry

We’ve just caught wind of a really exciting sale that you’re definitely going to want to hit up if you’re in the market for some […]

Restaurants

Tomorrow: Foie Gras Tasting at Mica

Sure, tasting menus are all well and good. And we certainly see a lot of them in and around Philadelphia. But Chip Roman and his […]

Restaurants

UPDATED: An Opening Date For Whetstone, And Some Menu Intel

Photo courtesy Yoni Nimrod UPDATE: Nolen and company are backing off that January 15th date slightly, owing to the vagaries of the restaurant world, and […]

Philadelphia Wedding

A New Local Company Will Plan Your ‘Pop Up’ Wedding In Just 30 to 90 Days

Leona Davis and Stacy McGuigan are not your typical wedding planners: As the creative minds behind Haddonfield-based PopUp Weddings Original, they’ll plan and execute a unique, […]

City Life

Michael J. Fox Foundation Sues Camden Facility for Alleged Freezer Mishap

Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the Michael J. Fox Foundation is suing the Coriell Institute in Camden for allegedly ruining valuable tissue samples when a […]

City Life

Nutter Strengthens Anti-Corruption Office

KYW Newsradio reports Mayor Nutter has signed an order continuing and strengthening the city’s Office of Inspector General, bolstering the anti-corruption efforts that helped put […]

Restaurants

Sneak Preview: COOK’s November Schedule

So here we are again. Time to get out the calendar and make plans for the next month at COOK. And just for you Foobooz […]

City Life

Sale of Revel to Brookfield Is Finalized

A judge finalized the sale of the shuttered Revel Casino to Brookfield Holdings today, but not before some final bits of weirdness in a neverendingly […]

City Life

Police Post Pics of Alleged Prostitution Johns to Facebook

This seems pretty self-explanatory: Try to buy sex from a hooker in Philadelphia, and your mugshot might end up on the police department’s Facebook page: […]

City Life

Kenney Wants Council to Consider Approving Uber-Style Ride Sharing

Councilman Jim Kenney, reportedly thinking about a run for mayor, may be positioning himself as the city’s libertarian superhero. Just weeks after his bill decriminalizing […]

City Life

Is Philly’s (or Pittsburgh’s, or Scranton’s) Accent Really So Ugly?

Today, I’m pretty proud to be from Pennsylvania. Not just because we’re now well on our way to expanding the state’s inadequate hate-crime laws (although […]

City Life

Medical Marijuana Stalled for Now

The Patriot-News reports that the Pennsylvania House’s Republican leadership won’t bring a medical marijuana bill to the floor this fall.

City

4-Year-Old Brings Heroin to Daycare, Passes It Out Like Candy

A mother is under arrest after her 4-year-old daughter brought heroin to her daycare and passed it out to her classmates, Delaware State Police say. Ashley […]

City Life

A California Ruling Is More Bad News For Philly Teachers

Being a Philadelphia school district teacher is not an easy job. And this past week it just got harder. Not only because of yesterday’s decision […]

City Life

Pollsters Keep Trying to Pretend Tom Corbett Has a Sliver of Hope, Even Though Their Polls Show He Doesn’t

The best parts of watching polls come out about the Pennsylvania governor’s race is the quotes from the pollsters themselves in which they bend themselves […]