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Upcoming Designer Trunk Shows

Nicole Bridal & Formal Shoppe, Jenkintown June 14-30: Bridal Sample Sale The sale includes sample gowns by Claire Pettibone, St. Pucchi, Ian Stuart, Modern Trousseau, […]

Restaurants

That Sure Does Look A Hell Of A Lot Like A Cupcake Covered In Bacon

It is! It is! It is a cupcake covered in bacon.

City Life

Top Five Posts of the Week

1. “It’s Time to Grade Tom Corbett” by Chris Freind Brace yourself, Governor, because it isn’t going to be pretty. Read more. 2. “What Happened […]

City Life

Apparently, the Taiwanese Hate Philadelphia

This video comes from Next Media, a Hong Kong-based company that animates pop culture events (occasionally dabbling in fiction). Today they’ve taken on everything we, […]

City Life

The New York Times Wants You To See Dead People

Despite being based on death, the New York Times says the Franklin Institute’s “Mummies of the World” exhibit is full of life, calling it “haunting, […]

Restaurants

Ernesto’s 1521 Closing and James’ Burkes Are Interested

Every year, Ernesto Salandria closes his cozy Spruce Street Italian eatery for a month to take his 80-year old mom/pastry chef and 84-year old aunt/bookkeeper […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Bride Danielle: Honeymoon in Paradise

Tim and I had an incredible time on our Mexican honeymoon in Riviera Nayarit, the area north of Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast. We […]

City Life

Anthony Williams Wants to Be Mayor

“Why don’t you run?” It was two Januaries ago, at one of their regular Friday afternoon meetings. For weeks, political operative Josh Morrow had been […]

Be Well Philly

Work Out, Outdoors

If you’re … too smart for Shape-Ups Try … Walk-Star. One-pound wrist and ankle weights add extra whittling oomph to this fast-paced, 4.5-mile city or […]

City Life

No Sugar Tax for Philadelphia

Soda Tax Dies. Again. Mountain Dew drinkers, rest easy. You will not have to pay more for your sugary, devoid-of-nutrition beverage now that City Council […]

City Life

Catholics in Crisis: Sex and Deception in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia

"Is this true?" In February, at a hastily convened meeting of Catholic Church lawyers and administrators in Center City, that was the first question Cardinal […]

City Life

Shola vs. Blatstein: The Saga of the City’s Most Mysterious Chef

THE GRAND OPENING WAS POSTPONED. And postponed. And postponed. And now Speck Food + Wine, the hotly anticipated modern urban restaurant, is a modern urban […]

City Life

Billie Jean King: Racquet Revolutionary

“I can’t eat in front of somebody!” Billie Jean King hisses, gripping the plate her handlers have just pressed on her. They huddle with her […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Diary of a Marriage: The Slow Descent to Minivan-Dom

J.’s car is dying. It’s a slow death, and just when we think she’ll make it for another few thousand miles — usually after we’ve […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Would You Want a Proposal Planner?

Hi, brides. I saw something on Nightline the other evening (I swear, if one night out of the month I try to be asleep before […]