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The Good Life: 5 Things to Love This Month: Photo Facials

Lucky for all of us whose skin could use some lovin’, Rescue Rittenhouse Spa Lounge has added capillary-disappearing, pore-shrinking, rosacea-reducing photo facials to its spa […]

Restaurants

Quick Bites

Paddy’s Well is open in Fishtown, serving Pabst and BBQ with Bushmill Irish Whiskey sauce. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper] Sabrina’s Café and Spencer’s Too is […]

Restaurants

American Interpretation At 707

The City Paper’s Trey Popp asks what is American food and takes a taste of 707’s interpretation of it. Then the menu arrives. 707’s idea […]

Restaurants

Cathedral Kitchen BBQ & Blues Fest

Dine on barbecue, listen to blues and fight hunger at Wiggins Park in Camden, New Jersey on Sunday, June 3rd. All food and beverage proceeds […]

Restaurants

Pairing Wines At Mercato

David Snyder pairs wines this week with the ricotta gnocchi in a short rib ragu and Jamison Farm lamb shank from Mercato. New Italian cuisine […]

City Life

AC Now: The Shorts

Buying swim trunks can be a tricky business. It's not easy steering clear of excessive patterns, elastic waistbands and too-tight inseams. Our advice: Seek out […]

City Life

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Tours: Sound About Philly Podcast

I was skeptical when I heard about this latest offer to show me the city as I’ve never seen it before blah blah blah. I’m […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: CD: Urban Angel

(Dorado Records; $12.99) With the re-release of her underappreciated 2006 debut, there’s hope that a legion of new fans will discover this Fishtown transplant, With […]

City Life

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: The University and Urban Revival

By Judith Rodin, (University of Pennsylvania Press; $34.95) If you’ve ever mused, “Gee, university president would be a pretty cool gig,” Rodin’s urban-studies memoir will […]

City Life

Pulse: Social Diary: The Battle of Waterloo (Gardens)

Last year, my husband John and I were at a party when he ran into a banker he knows. We met the banker’s beautiful wife, […]

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Pulse: There Goes the Gayborhood

A battle for naming rights pits retail kings against local queens This spring, James McManaman, co-owner of the Absolute Abstract gallery on South 13th Street, […]

Restaurants

Wednesday Night

There’s at least a couple good deals in Old City tonight. Charlie’s offers $3 Golden Monkey and Jaeger shots and if you want to play […]

City Life

The Rebirth of North Broad

Can a Porsche-driving developer, a renowned restaurateur, a septuagenarian mortician and, um, a dentist save this neighborhood? You can always see gentrification happening. The new, […]

City Life

Taste: Seoul, Upper Darby

A food lover goes in search of authenticity I had noticed Pojangmacha before. Sitting in a former White Castle building in a lonely Upper Darby […]

City Life

Taste: You Like Sweet Wines?

That’s okay, so do some of Philadelphia’s top sommeliers Fully dry wines have a sophisticated image. So do fully sweet wines. But those that fall […]