KIBETT MENGECH Chef du cuisine, Ansill Age: 33 His food: “Stripped-down small plates,” with an if-you-dare element. How he’ll change Philadelphia: Mengech is making adventurous […]
TOURS Philadelphia in the Movies Film.org By Jennifer Schwartz We all know about the Rocky stairs, but can you point out the City Hall-area manhole […]
Philly is an odd retail town. We don’t have a Crate & Barrel, but we have seven Sneaker Villa stores. There seems to be a […]
“It’s not one of our nights,” said a local real estate developer over mini crabcakes on a Thursday evening. He was explaining why his wife […]
LIKE MOST BUSY DOCTORS, Center City internist Matthew Frankel makes a valiant effort to keep up with the latest pharmaceuticals. But with medications flooding the […]
Since early summer, when it became clear that the Phillies’ season would once again be mired in futility (this year’s theme: We Suck, Version 26.0), […]
Last month, this magazine bestowed a “Best Of” award on someone named Peter V. Ueberroth for “best human being, ever.” At the time, we were […]
The violence that has enveloped Philadelphia this year has been tragically consistent. Not only because so many of the murder victims are similar — young […]
In early April, when the National Football League announced that the Dallas Cowboys, and thus Terrell Owens, would make an appearance at the Linc on […]
When the U.S. Olympic Committee cut Philly from the list of cities it’s considering putting forward to host the 2016 games, it was blunt about […]
In this month's Pulse, a battle for naming rights pits retail kings against local queens. This spring, James McManaman, co-owner of the Absolute Abstract gallery […]
We now have, oh, 27 distance-crushes on instrument-toting Curtis Institute students, those wunderkinds who’ve scored free rides to what many consider an even more impressive […]
Imagine driving from an Eagles game to Cherry Hill not so many years from now. You leave Lincoln Financial Field, cross the Comcast Walt Whitman […]
I CHALLENGE YOU TO READ senior writer Matt Teague’s narrative of life on the front lines of our city’s murder epidemic and not feel your […]
I never really understood what Thomas Wolfe meant by “You can’t go home again.” Over the years, I’ve gone back to Easton, where I grew […]
