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Two Philadelphia Restaurants Nominated for Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurants List

Philadelphia’s Dizengoff and Townsend are among the 50 nominees for Bon Appetit’s “America’s Best New Restaurants 2015” list. Dizengoff gets the nomination for its hummus, which is described […]

Restaurants

Korean Pop-Up Dinner Happening at Little Fish

Little Fish is going to be quite the source of pop-ups in August. We told you about Rob Marzinsky’s pop-up lunches and dinners happening from August […]

Citified

Andrew Stober and Some Also-Rans File for Long Shot Mayoral and Council Runs

There will be no Bill Green or Sam Katz City Council run. There is no last-second mayoral candidate with a big name and big checkbook. Just […]

City Life

Petition Asks for Reinstatement of Fired Teacher

Margie Winters, the gay teacher fired earlier this summer from Waldron Mercy Academy, on Monday delivered a petition calling for her reinstatement to the Philadelphia […]

Property

William Penn Inn to be Restored as Three-Unit Luxury Condo Building

The new lease on life for the historic William Penn Inn in Wynnewood officially begins today, assuming the weather holds out, of course. A ribbon cutting […]

City Life

Demand for SEPTA Pope Passes Lower Than Expected

What if Pope Francis visited, and not quite everybody came? Yes, we’ve warned that crowds for the pope’s late-September visit could actually be bigger than […]

City Life

N.J. American Idol Hopeful, Returning From Auditions, Killed in I-95 Crash

A one-car crash on I-95 in Bucks County last night killed one and injured five others. The driver and five passengers were traveling north on […]

Restaurants

Great American Food Finds Premiers Tonight

Remember that Food Network show Great American Food Finds we told you about last month? In case you forgot to mark your calendar, the Erace brothers’ (of Green […]

City Life

WATCH: Is This Surveillance Video of the hitchBOT Murder?

Two days after the non-robotic hitchBOT was savagely murdered on the streets of Philadelphia, overtaking the deaths of that lion in Africa in the social consciousness, […]

Property

So Tell Us, Philadelphia: What’s It Like to Live in a Trinity House?

“What’s it like to live in a trinity house? Looking at a trinity, but it seems a little weird to me. Is it something you […]

City Life

Cheyney University Is Down to One Math Major

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that enrollment at Cheyney University, the only HBCU institution among the 14 state-owned universities in Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher […]

Restaurants

Tale of the Tape: Paesano’s Gizmo

If there were a “Sandwich Hall of Fame” (and there should be, and it of course should be located in Philadelphia) the entire menu of […]

Restaurants

The Newest Circles Is Having A Grand Opening Party

Tuk Tuk Real–the Thai-Latino fusion experiment by chef Alex Boonphaya and his sous, Silvestre Rincón-Tellez–did not go well. There were problems with balance, with presentation, […]

City Life

Finally, Philly Is Doing an Abandoned Bike Sweep

Is there anything more depressing than an abandoned bicycle? OK, there’s plenty of stuff, but you have to admit, there is something particularly sad about a rusty […]

Restaurants

Want to Buy a Giant Squid?

Varalli Restaurant closed in early July. According to Michael Klein, the corner building at Broad and Locust will be torn down next year. The contents of […]