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Be Well Philly

Chef-Approved Ways to Up Your Healthy Toast Game — That Don’t Involve Avocado 

About five years after taking the wellness world by storm, avocado toast still remains the trademark breakfast of the millennial generation. The smashed green meal, […]

City Life

What to Know About the Spruce and Pine Street Bike Lane Revamp

The city has begun its highly anticipated revamp of the Spruce and Pine street bike lanes. The project will, among other things, switch the road’s two bike […]

NextHealth PHL

The Path to a Cure: Temple HIV Treatment Milestone Was 5 Years in the Making

Temple University researchers are one step closer to eliminating HIV in humans. This month, a team of interdisciplinary researchers led by professor Kamel Khalili released the results of […]

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City Life

Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Hahnemann Hospital to Close

A lot of people are angry and upset over the planned closure of Hahnemann University Hospital — and that includes 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. […]

City Life

The Beautiful Weirdness of Philly, One House Picture at a Time

John Ricco describes the scene like he was there. “There was some typically narrow Philadelphia block, where everyone’s just hanging out on the street. It’s […]

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Restaurants

Eat Chicken Cutlets for Breakfast at Cotoletta’s New Brunch

There’s nothing quite like a crispy, juicy, saucy cutlet — whether chicken, veal, or eggplant. And now, cutlet specialist Cotoletta Fitler Square is serving them […]

Be Well Philly

Chestnut Hill Fitness Studios Are Teaming Up for an Epic Sweat Crawl

We live in a fitness era characterized by options — spin, kickboxing, barre, yoga, reformer Pilates, even trampoline-based cardio. Whatever your muscles want, your muscles […]

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City Life

You Can Help Give Away $1 Million of the Philadelphia Foundation’s Money

It’s not very often that you get the chance to spend someone else’s money, but the Philadelphia Foundation is encouraging just that with a new […]

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City Life

New Snow Day Law Makes It Official: Pennsylvania Hates Happiness

It’s summer. For a few blissful weeks, children are free to romp happily, chase the ubiquitous music of ice cream trucks, devour cup after cup of cherry water […]

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Restaurants

South Philly Just Got Another Chef-Driven, Members-Only Restaurant

Messina Social Club, a revamp of a 110-year-old South Philly institution, softly opened over the holiday weekend. Chef-restaurateur Jason Cichonski and Ampere Capital Group are behind the revival […]

Business

Philly Workers Are Basically in Denial About Robots Replacing Them

For years, blockbuster films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Bladerunner,” “The Terminator,” and “I, Robot” have been predicting a massive robot takeover. That might never […]

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Be Well Philly

This Local Company Turns Food Waste Into Sustainable Pet Treats

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the food supply goes to waste every year — translating […]

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Restaurants

We’ve Got to Stop Opening Italian Restaurants in Philly

In 2013, I worked at a restaurant in Philly called Fitler Dining Room, led by an ambitious chef named Rob Marzinsky. He did things like […]

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Philadelphia Wedding

This New Philly Wedding Venue Sits 50 Floors Above Center City

Take your wedding to new heights—or, in true Beyoncé fashion, put your love on top—at Vue on 50, a new wedding venue on the edge […]

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City Life

Can South Philly Hold On to What’s Always Made It Unique?

In the late summer of 1981, very much against my Catholic mother’s wishes, I had just moved into a rowhouse at 17th and Naudain — […]