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A Philly-Themed Bar Called Passyunk Avenue Has Won Londoners’ Cold, Cold Hearts

Three isn’t quite enough. Eight is far too many. But that sweet spot between your fourth and seventh beers? That’s when the best bar arguments […]

City Life

The Stealth Revolution in Male Hair

Earlier this year, my husband came home from the barbershop with a quarter-inch-wide strip of white scalp along the line where he customarily divides his […]

City Life

Can a Radical New High School Disrupt Education in Philadelphia?

Gina Moore draws a sip of grapefruit-tequila cocktail, a small black notebook cradled in her lap. A financial professional and mother of two in her […]

City Life

How Michael Rubin, Meek Mill’s Billionaire Bestie, Got Woke

“Did you see what’s on his phone? That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.” Michael Rubin is wrestling with Joel Embiid in a losing […]

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The Birth of Vetri

At the end of 1993, I was 23 years old, working for Aramark as a corporate food service director, and living on Long Island. Fortunately, […]

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Be Well Philly

Daydreaming About Quitting Your Job to Become a Spin Instructor? Read This First.

I can hear Shoshana Katz shouting from the lobby of the gym. She screams a couple of words I can’t repeat here, and I eventually […]

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City Life

The Looming DROP Apocalypse

He was the only son of the Big Bambino, but even that couldn’t save him from the political firestorm over DROP. Seven years ago, Frank […]

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City Life

I Used to Love Steak — Then I Met a Cow

When I was in my 20s, I started working at an alternative weekly, which I should explain to younger readers was a free tabloid-format newspaper […]

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Things to Do

Kingston and Saugerties: Fall More Deeply In Love

So you’re already a regular in Hudson, and your first visit to Storm King happened in college. Ready to deepen your love affair with HV? […]

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Hudson: The Perfect Maiden Voyage Upstate

If you’re skeptical about this whole New-York-beyond-the-five-boroughs thing, the city of Hudson is the place to start. Getting there is easy — you can Amtrak […]