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Home: Domain: Before + After: Garage Redo

THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THE GARAGE: It’s the room that, more than any other, has the potential to become a chronic, raging junk heap. As […]

City Life

Domain: Finds: Wood Works

THIRD-GENERATION FURNITURE maker Adam Rung began his apprenticeship at age four in his parents’ Chambersburg woodshop. Now in his own Port Richmond studio, Rung crafts […]

City Life

Domain: Design: Color Theory

EGGSHELL. TAUPE. CREAM. Off-white. (Yawn.) Sure, we all love the familiar neutrals, but they can’t help but start to feel a tad … safe. Sedate, […]

Restaurants

Rx Is Offering $30 Dinner For Rest Of Year

West Philadelphia’s Rx is offering a three course prix-fixe dinner through the rest of the year. Every Tuesday through Thursday you can pick an appetizer, […]

City Life

Domain: Next: Picture Perfect

PART REAL (IT’S an unedited photo), part ethereal (but the landscape is a diorama with a miniature plastic tree), Philadelphia photographer John Murphy’s fantastical art […]

City Life

Home: In the Garden: Brush With Nature

I’m a do-it-yourselfer when it comes to home improvement, which helps to explain why I’m a take-your-own-damned-time-to-do-it-yourselfer. But even I can only look at a […]

City Life

Web Original: Green Dreams

I don’t have one square inch of earth to plant, water or harvest. Not that atypical for a city-dweller, but, for two years, I have […]

City Life

Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: Craving Sichuan

As if the Beijing Olympics weren’t enough to put a foodie in the mood for Chinese food, I’m currently reading an engrossing food memoir set […]

Restaurants

Philadelphia’s Best Beer

Bella Vista Beer Distributors is moving across the street to the east side of 11th street and into a 38,000 sqft space. Drew Lazor has […]

Restaurants

Philadelphia’s Best Beer

Bella Vista Beer Distributors is moving across the street to the east side of 11th street and into a 38,000 sqft space. Drew Lazor has […]

Restaurants

“Maia is many things. . . .”

Craig LaBan visits Villanova’s Maia and finds the cafe, bistro, market, bar and fine-dining room is indeed many things, all of them good. It is […]

City Life

Web Original: Shopping Report: Week of August 11th, 2008

This week should hopefully be the opening of the second location of mod kids’ store Piccolini on 20th Street (the original is in Bryn Mawr). […]

City Life

Web Original: Right-Now Recipe: Beer-Battered Kosher Dills

The city’s brewheds might be flocking to Port Richmond’s Memphis Taproom for the bar’s menu of 50-plus craft beers, but it’s chef Jesse Kimball’s beer-battered, […]

Restaurants

Week In Review: Taprooms Edition

Craig LaBan doesn’t find much at all wrong with the Memphis Taproom. KYW pulls together an 18 minute podcast on the upcoming Union Trust. Lucky […]

Restaurants

Magic Kingdom Of Dough

Photo by Philadining.com Philadining gets us so excited about the restaurants that come and go at 925 Race Street we’re beginning to wonder if he’s […]