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No Ordinary Joe: The Best Coffee in Philadelphia
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The Rookie: Michael Carter-Williams
My knuckles are white as I grip the steering wheel, trying in vain to keep up with Michael Carter-Williams, who’s burning serious rubber up ahead. […]
The Fight for the Future of Philadelphia’s Newspapers
The meeting is lore, now: a story about a table for two that likely caused all South Jersey to wobble, ever so slightly, on its […]
Restaurant Review: Nicholas Elmi’s Laurel
Twelve years is a long sentence for someone who hasn’t committed a crime, even if you get to serve it in some swanky cells. Ask […]
Restaurant Review: Jerry’s Bar
“Brunch is punishment,” Anthony Bourdain famously wrote. “Nothing makes an aspiring Escoffier feel more like an army commissary cook, or Mel from Mel’s Diner, than […]
The Pillsbury Bake-Off:
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KRISTEN ABBOTT IS KEEPING HER EYE ON THE PRIZE— in her case, a plastic cafeteria tray laden with Boston Cream French Toast, a table d’hôte […]
One Against the Gun
It seemed like such a reasonable argument. “The fact is,” the column on the back page of the December issue of Guns & Ammo magazine […]
This Is Not a Dallas Cowboys Fan
Booooooo! To outsiders, that sound is a war cry, a clarion call for action, a howl of barbarism. For Philadelphia sports fans like me, the […]
An American Rustic Home
A peculiar thing is happening in Lambertville. A very particular design aesthetic—one that mixes old and new, industrial and woodsy, all with wild abandon—is cropping […]
Who Doesn’t Like Allyson Schwartz?
In the end—my last moment with Allyson Schwartz, sitting in her office in Washington—she is about to cry. “You’re getting a little emotional, Congresswoman,” I […]