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Tashan’s Top Five Dish

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Philly Beer Week in Belgium

Philly Beer Week’s hotel in Brugges This week several local beer luminaries are in Belgium to brew the 2012 Collaboration Beer with Brasserie Dupont. Back […]

City Life

Off the Cuff: March 2012

When historians look back at the last half-century in America, they’re going to shake their heads in wonder and ask: What were they thinking? How […]

City Life

Philadelphia Is Anti-Olive Garden

    If you’re smart and want to get into the restaurant business, you should open an Olive Garden. Actually, if you were smart, you’d […]

City Life

Restaurant Review: Birra

    Some dishes are just too stupid to try. That’s an unoriginal observation in the era of the Pummple—a double-layer cake with a pie […]

Be Well Philly

To Do: “Digging In” to Spring Cooking Class

Christina Pirello, author and host of Christina Cooks, is considered one of the authorities on whole foods. Her vegan cooking classes are meant to help […]

City Life

Restaurant Review: Ela

  Imagine for a moment that there was a supernatural portal in Philadelphia, perhaps on floor seven and a half of the Divine Lorraine, that […]

City Life

Sharon Pinkenson Wishes People Would Stop Asking About Her Hair

      If you want to make a movie in Philadelphia, you’ve gotta go through this feisty blonde, who’s known as much for her […]

City Life

Will We Still Love the Flyers Without the Blood and Violence?

I WAS ONCE EJECTED FROM A FLYERS GAME. The year was 2001, and the New Jersey Devils had an overwhelming 5-0 lead headed into the […]

City Life

Can Marc Vetri Save School Lunch?

  TO UNDERSTAND HOW PARTNERS MARC VETRI, JEFF BENJAMIN and Jeff Michaud plan to revolutionize America’s school cafeterias, you must first understand the allure of […]

City Life

Patrick Kennedy and the Jersey Girl

ON MARCH 31, 2010, PATRICK KENNEDY came to Atlantic City to give a speech. In the previous nine months, he had buried both his father, […]

The Scene

HughE Dillon: GPTMC’s Philly 360 Party

Last week the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation held its annual Black History Month Philly 360° cocktail party at Tendenza in Northern Liberties, where they […]

City Life

The Sins of Penn State: The Untold Story of Joe Paterno’s Fall

    IT’S A WEDNESDAY IN EARLY JANUARY, a gray afternoon, but not bad by State College standards. It’s not too cold. There’s no snow. […]

City Life

The Sorry Lives and Confusing Times of Today’s Young Men

  THE WOMEN ARE IRATE. The women are talking about men, young men, the men they’d like to date and marry, and are they ever […]

Foobooz

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Le Bec Fallout, Thomas Keller Rumors, Ramen Boy, Shake Shack and Grace Tavern’s Infuriating Chicken Sandwich

It’s amazing to me that this week started with the news that Georges Perrier was going to be selling off a controlling interest in Le […]