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Life & Style

Express Yourself: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Next Hobby in Philly

Arrange succulents. Beaucycled’s workshops at venues like Frankford Hall, Morgan’s Pier and BOK Bar bring together groups of 100 for drinks and twee gardening; everyone […]

Business

Jack Bogle and Vanguard’s $5,000,000,000,000 Question

Rare is the man whose form and visage have been captured both in a larger-than-life-size bronze statue and a six-inch-tall plastic bobblehead doll. John Clifton […]

Foobooz

Get Ready for 2018 With Our Latest 50 Best Restaurants List

Right now, you can eat an entire meal at one of Philadelphia’s absolute-best restaurants for — no joke — $12. One of our top five […]

City Life

Why a Philly Whistle-Blower Is Launching a Journalism Start-Up

Even by the biblical standards of come-to-Jesus moments, the day Wendell Potter got woke was nothing short of miraculous, in the old-school, divine-intervention meaning of […]

City Life

Why Michael Nutter Thinks He Had the Best Job in Politics

The Rundown Age: 60 CV: 4th District City Councilman (1992-2006); 98th Mayor of Philadelphia (2008-’16) List of current gigs, abridged: Pundit (CNN), professor (Columbia), fellow […]

Life & Style

Fashion and Motherhood: Do Clothes Make the Mom?

It’s a sunny day in late fall, and I’m in my closet, grasping for something to wear. Any minute now, my neighbor Jane will be […]

City Life

DNYED: The Vanity License Plates PennDOT Rejected

Over at PennDOT HQ in Harrisburg, it’s somebody’s job to sift through the thousands of vanity license plate applications the agency receives annually to see […]

Shoppist

Connoisseur: Mark Kuhn’s Favorite Things

The CEO of Oat Foundry — the local artsy engineering agency that builds Honeygrow’s split flap signs and sconces for Stephen Starr’s Le Coucou — […]

Shoppist

Can a Style-Conscious 30-Something Like Me Ever Become a Fan of QVC?

Item H-214501: Serta Pillowtop Mattress I’ve been watching QVC for four hours and 19 minutes when I call out to my husband: “Hey, babe? I […]

City Life

What’s It Like to Wear the Big Red Suit?

Santa Bernard How do you deal with skeptical kids? If a child asks me if I’m the real Santa, I usually ask, “What do you […]