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The Triple Markup on Wine Is Dying. And Good Riddance.

The triple markup on wine is standard at Philly restaurants and bars. Tradition. It makes sense: The PLCB barely gives a wholesale discount, meaning restaurants […]

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Restaurants

The Best Bars in Philadelphia

This is a city that knows how to drink. That knows how to drink well. And we owe a lot of that to our bars […]

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City Life

What Can Philly Do About Climate Change? A Whole Lot, Actually.

You know those digital flood-simulation maps? The ones that show how water will begin to creep into the streets of Lower Manhattan and put it […]

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City Life

The City’s $200M Plan to Save South Philly’s FDR Park

This article is one piece of a bigger story on climate change in Philadelphia. You can read the full story here. Philly’s sole estuary park […]

City Life

We Need to Stop Building Shore Houses

This article is one piece of a bigger story on climate change in Philadelphia. You can read the full story here.  Approximately no one wants […]

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City Life

Philly Should Charge People to Drive Into Center City

This article is one piece of a bigger story on climate change in Philadelphia. You can read the full story here.  Philadelphians waste more than […]

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City Life

Philly Needs to Move the Airport Before It’s Underwater

This article is one piece of a bigger story on climate change in Philadelphia. You can read the full story here.  That glittering river you […]

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City Life

There Goes the Gayborhood

It was around one o’clock in the morning, and I was standing in a long line of mostly straight Penn alumni waiting to enter Voyeur […]

City Life

Whatever Happened to Cutting People Some Damn Slack?

In Philadelphia, for obvious reasons, schoolchildren certainly get more than their fair share of Revolutionary War history. Where I grew up, though, the lore and […]

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Restaurants

Inside Pizzeria Beddia’s $450-a-Night Hoagie Room

This article is part of our guide to food experiences in Philly. See more here. There’s a ridiculousness about the Hoagie Room. Without a doubt, […]