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What to Eat This Weekend: Pumpkins

Dettera Chef Jeffrey Power is offering a pumpkin soup; there’s also a “pumpkin chai flip” cocktail made with local pumpkin, spiced rum, chai tea syrup, […]

City Life

T.O.’s House in Moorestown Finally Sold

Fancy New SEPTA Cars Get Rolling Today. They’re shiny, they’re cool, they’re made in South Korea. Three of them will go into service today; a […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Bride-to-Be Blogger Danielle: Custom Stationery

Tim and I agree that we want a wedding that is unique in many ways, and that includes our stationery. We knew we didn’t want […]

City Life

Exit Interview: Marshall Herskovitz

If you paid any attention to television in the late ’80s or mid-’90s, producer/director Marshall Herskovitz either gazed deep into your soul (thirtysomething; My So-Called […]

City Life

Restaurant Review: City Tap House

Craft-brew lovers have had a rich run in Philadelphia lately. From the runaway success of Philly Beer Week to the mounting competition among carryout stores […]

City Life

Travel: Historic Princeton

Sorry, University City. Princeton — with its lofty trees, small-town boutiques, and whiffs of esteemed former residents Albert Einstein and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the […]

City Life

Good Life: Model Citizen: Bela Shehu

When Albanian-born beauty Bela Shehu closed her eponymous shop on 13th Street and disappeared from the pages of Lucky, she left traces of her work […]

City Life

Dinner With Kevin Sbraga

Comfort food: Grilled cheese. Ethnic restaurant preference: Greek or Mediterranean. Where you get that around here: There’s not one place I can think of. Domino’s, […]

City Life

The $50,000 Kiddie Birthday Party

Tiffany Gabbay was shocked. She’d just opened her estimate from the company that rents carnival-style vending carts for kids’ birthday parties. Gabbay was thinking small, […]

City Life

Philadelphia’s Poverty Problem

When I travel and tell people where I’m from, they often want to know what Philadelphia is like — they’ve heard things. I tell them […]

City Life

Where We’re Eating: Cichetteria 19

It seems a perfect place for a margherita pie fresh from the brick oven, this slender little dark-wood hideaway just off -Rittenhouse Square. Alas, the […]

City Life

Cravings: Potpies

Forget those ho-hum microwaveable meals in your grocer’s freezer. At Philly restaurants, potpies are good eats. Take Standard Tap’s chicken pie (pictured), a year-round staple […]

City Life

Where We’re Eating: Timber Wood-Fired Grill

Twig lamps, red-and-white-checkered chairs, exposed beams and log piles make the old Inn Flight feel more cabin-in-the-woods than across-the-street-from-a-hospital. Such rustic details put an eater […]

City Life

Where We’re Eating: Kraftwork

Where can you find superb chicken-liver mousse, served with crisp, buttery toast points? At a beer-focused pub in Fishtown, that’s where. It’s definitely a tavern […]

City Life

Where We’re Eating: Sushikazu

Sushi fans in this part of Montco were distraught when their beloved Sushi Kazu closed in 2009, but the new version, under chef/owner Jay Park, […]