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Philadelphia and the Case of the Disappearing Neighborhood Bars

Wanda’s Lounge was a bar. There were many bars like it, but this one was a wee corner dive on a residential block of Kingsessing, […]

City Life

Saleka Shyamalan Is Staking Her Own Claim in Showbiz

Born and raised in Bryn Mawr and now living in Rittenhouse Square, Saleka Shyamalan just released her first album, Seance, a debut that shows both […]

City Life

We Always Thought We’d Have More Than One Child

My phone rings a little after 5 p.m., just as I’m sliding enchiladas into the oven. I know without looking that it will be my […]

City Life

Why Are 30,000 People Studying Poetry Online With This Guy?

Last summer, bleary, disheartened, and often angry from more than two years of seemingly nonstop doomscrolling, I decided it was time for a big change. […]

Property

Apartment Construction Is Booming. How Will That Change Philly?

The first week of November 2022 wasn’t all that different from most weeks on the construction front in Philadelphia lately. On Wednesday, November 2nd, developer […]

Restaurants

Q&A: Friday Saturday Sunday Owners on Marriage, QR Code Menus, Pineapple Pizza

Update 6/5/2023: Congrats to Chad and Hanna Williams for winning Outstanding Restaurant at the 2023 James Beard Awards. Read more here. Friday Saturday Sunday was […]

City Life

Philly’s Biotech Scene Needs More Local Money — Now

Around every corner, the gizmos sound like something cooked up by a mad scientist in the movies: a 24-way-robot-controlled bio-reactor, a “viral positive” room, a […]

City Life

From AI to Crypto, When Did Everything Get So … Fake?

So there’s this 31-year-old schlub named Sam Bankman-Fried who built this company called FTX that investors sank billions of dollars into because it sounded new […]

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Are Online Reviews Helping Consumers — or Driving Our Indecision?

Joseph S. doesn’t want me to buy the meat thermometer. He bought the same one on Amazon a few months ago, and even though he’s […]

City Life

The Amazing Story of How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan

Sometime in the fall of 2021, a man from Philadelphia came to meet Mazhar Hussain, a chef based in Lahore, Pakistan. Hussain was shown a […]