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“I made you paella arancini,” Liz Grothe says to me with the matter-of-factness of a lunch lady divvying up peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. As if what she’s […]

I have a son I love dearly. Jake is tall, athletic, a college grad, great sense of humor, good dancer (really!), making tons of money […]

On an otherwise pleasant evening in mid-May of last year, standing in the middle of a grassy lot in Fairmount Park, I spent a little […]

The pandemic flipped the whole world upside down, including how and where romance-inclined Philadelphians meet each other. Some three years later, everyone’s trying to figure […]

Not even the best-looking people look good in Muay Thai shorts. They’re not supposed to. When you’re wrestling while ostensibly hugging other people and attempting […]

Tinder What it is: The dating app that brought “swiping right” into the mainstream. Since its launch in 2012, the app claims to have facilitated […]

Last year, Molly Weinberg founded the matchmaking service YentaBe with a mission to unite Jewish singles between the ages of 22 and 45 who are […]

I set my expectations purposefully low. The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, I told myself. Seems a bit gauche. Stand on your own two feet, Pennsylvania! […]

When my son, a junior in high school, announced he wanted to tour the University of Pittsburgh, my wife said we could leave early in […]

When driving west on Route 30 through the part of south central Pennsylvania that might best be described as “Kentucky, is that you?,” I squint […]