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Birds 24/7

Eagles Wake-Up Call: Cornerback At No. 22?

Going into the combine, some mock drafts had the Eagles taking a cornerback with the No. 22 pick in the first round. The two most […]

Be Well Philly

The Checkup: This Test Proves How Fit You Are (Or Not)

• Remember the Presidential Fitness Test from grade school? This is that, but the grown up version. Test your fitness with four easy exercises and […]

How to Organize Your Desk
Shoppist

Organize Your Life! Day 2: Six Stylish Ways to Organize Your Desk

Maybe it was the 72-hour stint of warm weather last week, but we here at Shoppist are ready for a little spring-cleaning. Each day this […]

Linked By History: Salandria speaking in 1998; Arlen Specter working with the Warren Commission in 1964.
City Life

The Fonzi-Specter JFK Assassination Tapes

Philadelphia lawyer Vince Salandria prepped journalist Gaeton Fonzi for his interviews with Arlen Specter about the Warren Commission’s work; Specter’s evasiveness and inability to explain […]

Philadelphia Wedding

VIDEO: Hearing Her Parents’ Wedding Song Makes Adorable Toddler Feel All the Feelings

In case you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. We all get a little misty when watching the wedding video of people we love—and […]

Birds 24/7

Jaws: I Wouldn’t Take Manziel In First Three Rounds

Opinions on Johnny Manziel’s pro prospects are all over the map. And one analyst who apparently is not a big fan is Ron Jaworski.

graffiti pier
Property

Philly Love Note No. 206: Graffiti Pier

The website Philly Love Notes — a treasure trove of urban revelation — published a paean to the Graffiti Underground written by Property’s editor, aka, me. […]

Things to Do

PHOTOS: Questlove Plays a Corpse On the Set of Law & Order: SVU a Little Too Well

Last week Philly hip-hop drummer Questlove teased us with an Instagram photo that suggested he may be appearing in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: […]

City Life

7 Gay Things to Do in Philly This Week:
B-Boy Blues, Glamsino Royale,
an NSFW Dance Party and More

B-Boy Blues: The award-winning stage adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s novel B-Boy Blues gets its Philly debut at Painted Bride Art Center. The first-of-its-kind gay, […]

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Property

Top 6 Landscape Architecture Trends of 2014

The results are in from the American Society of Landscape Architects‘ 2014 trends survey, which asked landscape architects across the country to handicap the popularity, in the […]

Restaurants

Bell’s Beers Take Over the Cambridge

Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 26th, Chris and  Heather Fetfatzes, who saw their Hawthornes Cafe closed by fire on Monday, will be hosting a huge Bell’s Brewery takeover […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Solutions to 24 Tricky Wedding-Etiquette Questions

When I was invited to my first engagement party, that excited first-timer feeling was instantly overtaken by panic: Should I bring a gift? How much […]

Things to Do

Yo La Tengo to Perform at FringeArts for Buckminster Fuller Documentary

Film nerds/architect nerds/music nerds/nerds, this one’s for you:

Be Well Philly

I Tried It: 3 Fitness Apps for My Apple TV

My crack-like addiction to Walter White and Jesse Pinkman enticed me to buy an Apple TV earlier this year. But once I blew through all […]

Birds 24/7

All-22 Free Agent Profile: Malcolm Jenkins

The one word that comes to mind with free agent safety Malcolm Jenkins is versatility. And that was one of Chip Kelly’s main talking points during […]