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A Noodle House With No Rules Is Exactly What Philly Needs Right Now

Walk into Mawn, and it’ll take you five minutes to know that something is going on here. Not even five minutes. Less. You’ll feel it […]

Restaurants

Momoyama Brings Hawaiian Comfort Food to Delco

I don’t understand why there aren’t Hawaiian restaurants in every neighborhood. Like Chinese takeout, like Friday-night pizzas, kalua pork and macaroni salad and musubi should […]

City Life

Philly Books We Love: Jenny Laden’s This Terrible True Thing

Jenny Laden had a premonition of her funeral, and drag queens were there. This was about 10 years ago, just after the Philadelphia native returned […]

Life & Style

Picture-Perfect Train Trips to Take From Philly This Fall

You haven’t done leaf-peeping right until you’ve done it from a train. Here are nine trips perfect for taking in nature’s fireworks — and a […]

City Life

Philly Hip-Hop Legend Schoolly D Has a Message for Wannabe Rappers

Meek Mill. Lil Uzi Vert. Tierra Whack. Black Thought. All famous rappers from Philadelphia. But long before they started making rhymes and beats — and, […]

Restaurants

Joseph’s Pizza Parlor Is a Northeast Philly Comeback Story

I’ve been sitting here trying to think of a better name for the hybrid stromboli the new-and-improved Joseph’s has on the menu. It’s half stromboli, […]

City Life

Jennifer Weiner Talks Zahav, Marijuana, and Madonna’s New Face

Nearly 20 years after her bestselling novel In Her Shoes became a big box office success, Queen Village author Jennifer Weiner is back with a […]

Restaurants

The Strip-Mall Restaurant Serving Some of the Best Nepali Food in the Region

I love a place that’s unassuming. One you never see coming. There’s something to be said for anticipation, sure — for making plans and seeing […]

City Life

On the Scourge of Cell Phones at Live Performances

Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninoff wouldn’t have had a clue when they wrote their respective Cello Concerto No. 1 and Symphonic Dances in the mid-20th […]

Things to Do

The Philly Mag 2023 Fall Arts Preview

With a packed roster from music to theater and more, Philly’s arts scene is having a renaissance. Here’s everything you need to see this season. […]