When she’s not seeing cards, Bryn Mawr’s Beth Shak—a 41-year-old professional poker player—is probably shopping. Shak has 1,200 pairs of shoes and is looking to […]
Last night police and the SPCA were at a house at Ninth and Shunk Streets to deal with a bizarre case of animal hoarding that […]
Newspapers generally don’t bring me to tears–except my own, when it drove me to quit after 30 years–but I was an emotional faucet as I […]
The Phillies Are a Bunch of Badasses. Last night, the Phils sought out some revenge on last year’s World Series champs—and revenge they got. Chase […]
Lake Placid Lodge, the lone resort on New York’s Lake Placid, is a sprawling manse that hearkens back to the Gilded Age, when the downstate […]
The man sitting across the aisle on the bus to Lamonae spoke to me. His name was Abdul, and his eyes glowed brightly over a […]
YOU ENTER A WROUGHT-IRON GATE on 8th Street, follow a brick path past a blaze of pink azaleas, duck under the low-hanging boughs of a […]
A FILMMAKER WOULD OPEN with a bird’s-eye shot of the mushroom pâté en croûte. The camera would linger for a moment on the centerpiece—a broad […]
PANIC SEIZED ME twice on my last trip to Atlantic City. The first occasion: I’m in the fifth-floor bar of the Chelsea Hotel at happy […]
“I stand before you a changed man.” Michael Vick has never liked speaking in public. On this June day, one of his guys insists that […]
JEREMY PLAUCHE IS A burly, rowdy-looking guy — six feet, maybe 300 pounds, with the bold facial hair of a modern 24-year-old — but he […]
Wednesday, August 3rd, City Tap House is celebrating National Watermelon Day with watermelon beer, cocktails and a watermelon eating contest. Among the $4 watermelon beers, […]
Above is what Tria’s Washington Square West location looked like before it was refurbished and subsequently opened four years ago. The fine folk over at […]
The seven-foot statue will be near Harry the K’s in the left field area inside Citizens Bank Park. The statue will be unveiled prior to […]
That delicious looking plate there? That’s poutine, as envisioned by Matt Levin at Adsum–the Canadian drunk-ass comfort food of french fries, gravy and cheese curds […]
