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Breakfast Is Toast

Every morning, my husband Doug gets up early enough to make himself breakfast. Not just coffee and toast, but a real old-fashioned breakfast—a bowl of […]

Restaurants

Iron Chef a Hometown Affair Tonight

Food Network 10pm this evening Michael Solomonov faces Jose Garces on Iron Chef America. Solomonov is hosting a viewing party at Percy Street Barbecue. [poll […]

Restaurants

Line of the Week: Business of Restaurant Week

We’ve seen scads of Restaurant Week comments over the past two weeks. One of the most illuminating may have been Cleevus who looks at Restaurant […]

City Life

Advertising Circulars = Litter

I don’t know how it works in your neighborhood, but Spring Gardenians get an extra helping of litter on ad circular day. In the wee […]

Restaurants

Philadelphia, Pro Union

Philadelphia Ghost Sign Project First was the behemoth steakhouse Union Trust, then the Philadelphia Union soccer team. Next up will be the Union Tavern bar […]

Restaurants

Weekend

Friday Dock Street Brewing Co. is doing a firkin of the month and tonight it is Prisoner of Hell, a beer made  with chili peppers. […]

Restaurants

50 Best Restaurants Final

We’ve reached the Philly Mag Top 50 Restaurants bracket Finals and it all comes down to Lacroix versus Vetri. Lacroix defeated Zahav in one semifinal […]

City Life

Chris Smith Will Tell You When You’ve Been Raped, Ladies

Chris Smith—the far-right, anti-choice zealot of a congressman from central Jersey—has proposed legislation to further restrict the use of government funds to pay for abortion […]

Restaurants

Eyeball Bender on the Prowl

GPTMC has just launched their third batch of With Love ads and this one makes for a good eyeball bender. Can you guess where these […]

City Life

Is It Ever OK To Date a Friend’s Ex?

Dear Monica, My friend and her ex-boyfriend have been broken up for six months. I have always liked him and I think the feeling is […]

City Life

Snow Drinking

It was Wednesday night when the text came through from a buddy of mine: “Where you at?” The snow was piling by then, and unless […]

City Life

Theater Review: Amadeus at Walnut Street Theatre

It was with great trepidation that I set foot in the Walnut Street Theatre on Wednesday night for the opening of Amadeus. After all, this […]

City Life

Why Don’t Women Like Football?

I like football. I’ve always liked football, or to be more accurate, when I was in high school I liked football players and so I […]

Restaurants

Sorry About that Twitter Explosion

Earlier this afternoon a technical glitch had us tweeting up a storm. We’ve addressed the issue and taken measures to prevent it from happening again. […]

City Life

A School Choice Bill That Doesn’t Offer True Choice

And so it begins. The first challenge to Governor Tom Corbett is upon him. Surprisingly, it’s not from public sector unions, trial lawyers or natural […]