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50 Best Semifinals

The Philly Mag Top 50 Restaurants bracket is down to its final four. Osteria, which beat up its younger sibling in the first round now […]

City Life

Gay Weekend Roundup

Friday, Jan. 21 Pig Iron Theatre Co. goes hog wild during Pigadilly Circus – the troupe’s annual benefit cabaret and auction – at the Troc […]

Restaurants

Team Coco! Thrice-Cooked Ribs

Here’s some Friday silliness, for anyone sitting at their desk, bored. My cheffy friend Wade, who works out in Arizona, was featured on Conan O’Brien […]

Restaurants

Eyeball Bender with Love

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

City Life

Keep Your Cones Out of My Parking Space

Shoveling snow sucks. I’ve never met anyone who sees fresh powder in the forecast and is giddy with the thought of clearing off their driveway […]

City Life

Let Us Now Praise Southwest Airlines

I have a daughter who attends college in Boston. Two years ago, when we started the college search process, we scheduled a flight to Boston […]

City Life

Ladies: It’s Better to Be Alone

Dear Monica,  After reading your blog last week about why men settle, I thought it would only be fair if you wrote about why women […]

City Life

Abortion’s Back in the News. Wonderful.

Seth Williams’ timing could have been better: On January 19th, he announced a grand jury indictment against Kermit Gosnell, a West Philly abortion doc who, […]

Restaurants

Tonight

When we saw that Cantina Los Caballitos was celebrating turning four tonight we started reminiscing back to when the bar first opened. We were there […]

City Life

Please Announce Yourself

Every child can draw a house. Simple. It has four sides, windows, a door and a chimney. Monuments and religious spaces are grand and exotic […]

Restaurants

An Interview with Garces & Oliver

Tonight Chifa hosts Brooklyn Brewing in a sold out beer dinner. The Brew Lounge scored an interview with  Brooklyn’s Garrett Oliver and Iron Chef Jose […]

City Life

Ching-Yun Hu Performs for William Way

Ching-Yun Hu is a Taiwanese pianist who has been lauded for her eloquent and stylish approach to classical music. After studying at Julliard by the […]

City Life

The Bar With No TVs

Last night I had dinner at McMenamin’s in Mount Airy, a splendid place where an interracial couple and two lesbians can sit big butt to […]

City Life

Allentown Approves Domestic Partnership Benefits

Yesterday, the City Council in Allentown, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania – about 60 miles from downtown Philadelphia – extended medical benefits to same-sex partners […]

City Life

Limbaugh Rants About AIDS – Again

“These people blamed AIDS on [former President Ronald] Reagan,” said Rush Limbaugh during a heated monologue Monday on his self-titled radio show. “Sound familiar? They […]