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Eagles-Vikings Game Postponed Because of Safety?

Steve Van Buren must be thinking “what a bunch of pansies” after the NFL postponed the Eagles-Vikings game because of some snow and wind. On […]

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Go Down the Rabbit Hole With Nicole Kidman

It is an ambitious endeavor to turn a play or musical — especially one that won a Pulitzer Prize — into a film. Sometimes the […]

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An Empty Nester’s Christmas

So here it is, finally. Christmas Eve. Time to exhale and marvel at what I’ve accomplished yet again. Year after year, there’s an overwhelming amount […]

Restaurants

Open Christmas Eve and Christmas

Photo by B. Krist for GPTMC Here’s our list of bars and restaurants open Christmas Eve and Christmas night. Leave a comment for other notable […]

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Observations from a Macy’s Christmas Virgin

Every Christmas, they come here, to Macy’s. For the past 25 years. A mother and her son and daughter from Stratford, NJ — the kids […]

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Get Ready for a Mud-Slinging, Do-Nothing 112th Congress

The term “lame duck” is used to describe a person or body that has lost power. In politics you get the moniker when you’ve either […]

Restaurants

Chefs Mouth Off! Totally Anonymous, Deliciously Juicy

In addition to ranking the 50 best restaurants in the January issue of Philadelphia magazine, we also conducted an anonymous survey of local chefs and […]

Restaurants

Next Year We Can Eat Healthy

As we prepare for a week plus of binge eating and drinking it is nice to know there are some new healthy options on the […]

City Life

Merry Christmas, Dad

Holiday melancholy, the kind that whispers sweet and sad, crept up on me early this season. For that, I blame the Phillies.

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Why Philly Unions Piss Me Off

The results of the census came out this week and — surprise, surprise —the population of America continues to migrate south. It’s too bad the […]

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Ask G Philly: Answering Reader Questions

I’m Jewish and my girlfriend is Catholic. We both agreed that she should put up a Christmas tree this year. I’m not a practicing Jew […]

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How You Can Save a Life This Season

While many of us feel the end of December in Philadelphia is one of the most exciting and spirited times of the year, for some […]

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Target Continued Anti-Gay Donations

The last time I shopped at Target in South Philadelphia, I ran into several gay people I know because it seems gay people – like […]

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Obama Signs DADT Repeal

President Obama has signed a law to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Watch Obama discuss the history-making moment here:

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Hump Day Headlines

President Obama signs repeal of DADT into law. McCain working with anti-gay Family Research Council to overturn DADT repeal in 2011. Lesbian Sherrie Cohen to […]