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Foobooz

Here’s What You’ll Be Eating at the Piazza Pod Park

The Piazza Pod Park, the Post Brothers’ new mixed-use outdoor space and beer garden at 1075 Germantown Avenue, kicks off with a grand opening celebration this Saturday, […]

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City Life

A Lower Merion Teen Is Competing Against the World’s Greatest Young Pianists

Seventeen-year-old Bala Cynwyd resident Avery Gagliano is one of six competitors from around the world left in the prestigious Cliburn junior competition, which seeks to […]

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City Life

The Mütter Museum, Philly’s Highbrow House of Horrors, Preps for Good Kind of Growth

The Mütter Museum, a temple to the many medical abnormalities that can befall a human being, is preparing for a growth spurt. Museum officials announced on Wednesday […]

Foobooz

Oyster House’s Former Chef Is Turning a Rittenhouse Ballroom Into a Restaurant

Brett Naylor, the former executive chef at Oyster House and once-partner at Mission, is opening a restaurant with his wife Nicole Barrick in the old Academy […]

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Be Well Philly

HipCityVeg Will Open Its First Location in the ’Burbs This Weekend

A main feature of HipCityVeg’s identity—other than dishing up 100-percent plant-based fare—is that it’s metropolitan to its core. It’s called HipCityVeg, after all. HipCityVeg has […]

NextHealth PHL

Spark Therapeutics Head Says Life Sciences Has Come a Long Way on Diversity. But…

From the outside in, the life sciences industry appears to be a man’s world. At least, at the upper echelons of the industry, women are […]

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Foobooz

Han Dynasty Hit With Class-Action Suit Claiming Unpaid Overtime and Wages

In recent years, prolific Philadelphia restaurateurs like Stephen Starr, Michael Solomonov, and the Val Safran-Marcie Turney team have found their companies targeted in workers’ rights […]

Foobooz

Jet Wine Bar Is Opening a Wine Garden on South Street

Jet Wine Bar and its sibling restaurants are expanding with a new wine garden, a Cafe Ynez spinoff, and a new home for Rex 1516 in […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Let’s Help This Couple Get Bryce Harper to Officiate Their Wedding

NoLibs couple Bri Higgins and John O’Donnell have a long history with the Phillies. Both grew up playing baseball and softball in their South Jersey […]

NextHealth PHL

Why the Country’s Top Biotech Companies Are Flocking to Philadelphia

The leaders behind some of the most successful biotech companies in the country have chosen to grow their businesses in Philadelphia because, even when compared to […]

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Foobooz

Details Revealed for Night Market Overbrook

Night Market has been bringing people and food together in the streets of Philadelphia since 2010, and it’s finally coming to my neighborhood. Here’s what […]

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City Life

The Forgotten Victim of the Salvation Army Building Collapse

As soon as I heard the accent, I knew it would all be okay. It was close to midnight, and I was coming home from […]

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Foobooz

The Rooster, CookNSolo’s Mission-Driven Restaurant, Is Closing

When Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook debuted the Rooster, then known as Rooster Soup Co., in 2017, they were doing something that hadn’t been done before: opening […]

FDR Park
City Life

Extreme Makeover, FDR Park Edition: Here’s What South Philly’s Huge Park Could Look Like

FDR Park in South Philly never really gets the attention it deserves as one of the city’s biggest parks, probably in part because the 348-acre […]

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Foobooz

Jeff Michaud and Michael Schulson Are Opening a Pasta Restaurant in Rittenhouse

Chef Jeff Michaud and restaurateur Michael Schulson partnered up to save Osteria from the Urban Outfitters chopping block back a year and a half ago, refreshing […]