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5 Area Homes with Seriously Luxe Home Theaters

Let’s go to the movies! We’ll bring the popcorn, you furnish the theater. Furnish these five boffo home theaters to your guests and you’ll have […]

Things to Do

REVIEW: In John Guare’s Aipotu, Utopia Ain’t What it’s Cracked Up to Be

When we last saw army nurse Lydie Breeze — in Cold Harbor, the first play of John Guare’s trilogy that bears her name — she […]

Be Well Philly

SoulCycle Just Launched a New Beginner-Friendly Fundamentals Class

SoulCycle can seem kind of daunting — you know, because of the cult-y reputation, dark studios, loud music, and complicated choreography. Well, the indoor cycling studio that made […]

Be Well Philly

A Vegan “Starbucks” is Opening in South Philly

We here at Be Well Philly love ourselves some vegan comfort foods, vegan dinner recipes  — anything vegan, really. I mean, food that’s 100-percent powered […]

Property

5 Market-Tested Tips for Selling Your Home

A lot of old wives’ tales aren’t true. By now, we know that a full moon is not directly responsible for strange things and that […]

Things to Do

Movies: The Women’s Film Festival

Now in its fourth year, the Women’s Film Festival is an established landmark on the Philly movie landscape. And once again its founders have assembled […]

Property

A Personal Statement in Passyunk Square for $750K

One of my favorite architectural quotes comes from modernist master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: “God is in the details.” God is smiling on South Philly […]

City Life

Three Outs: A Philly Coming-Out Story

“What kind of gay are you?” a guy at Woody’s asked me on the dance floor. It was my first week in Philly, and I […]

Shoppist

Spring Fashion 2018: Philly Musician Andrea Valle in the Season’s Top Looks

In fashion right now, high-low is having a moment like no other. Spring collections are all about the mix, pairing baggy denim with fancy frocks, […]

Be Well Philly

4 Philadelphia-Area Fitness Studios for TRX Training

Training with TRX isn’t new — the straps, which use body weight for strength training, were invented by a Navy SEAL in 1997 — but […]

Property

Philly Feng Shui: What I Did to Find Zen in the City

I’ve been happily ensconced in a two-room studio apartment carved out of an East Germantown rowhouse for five years now, but something about my living/bedroom […]

City Life

The Best Thing This Week: West Chester U’s Top Banana

Ah, college days! Remember the smell of the dorm rooms, the crackling marijuana buds, the beer-sticky floors? All colleges have traditions, and as it happens, […]

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REVIEW: The Bluest Eye — From Page to Stage, Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The jump from page to the stage sounds so easy, right? So fluid, so natural. Yet Lydia R. Diamond’s conscientious but reductive stage adaptation of […]

Property

So You Want to Live in Old City

The neighborhood where Philadelphia began is called Old City — please, none of that faux-Colonial e-on-the-end business — for a reason: This was the earliest part of […]

Be Well Philly

The Philadelphia Area is Getting Another Spin, TRX, and Barre Fitness Studio

Boutique fitness used to be a pretty basic concept. You had studios which offered one kind of workout, and you paid per class. Nowadays, boutique […]