It’s not enough to have top-shelf liquor. Your ­cocktails are calling for gourmet tonic water, too FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, we’ve been drinking less, […]

Lemonade It’s the lime that makes this lemonade sing — just a squeeze of green to balance out the sunny concoction. Served casually in to-go […]

The recipe is the same year-round — has been for more than three decades — but somehow the apple-cider doughnuts for sale in Highland Orchard’s […]

In this town’s surging sea of indie jewelry makers, Zivile Pupinyte and her tactile creations stand out. The 26-year-old Lithuanian-born beauty — until recently a […]

Just where — and how — do Philly shoppers (some of the heaviest in the nation) fit into fashion’s shifting scales? I went shopping recently. […]

Peter Capolino’s beloved (and very Philly) sports-nostalgia company, Mitchell & Ness, recently opened its second location in Harajuku, the super-trendy streetwear section of Tokyo’s Shibuya […]

While the decor in Bryn Mawr’s brand-spanking-new State of Grace is daaarling — sky-blue awning, butter-yellow walls, and black and white accents ­throughout — owner […]

Remember your giddiness when Isaac came to Target, and Stella and Karl to H&M? Well, start squealin’ again, because hitting Kohl’s department stores nationwide on […]

Redoing a bathroom always seems like the kind of quickie renovation you can bang out when design wanderlust sets in — but invariably it takes […]

Who: Former owner and director of Bella Vista’s beloved Spector Gallery, which closed earlier this year. What she’s up to now: Curating the Spector Collection, […]

Andrew Carnegie, by David Nasaw “He’s a real American success story. He came over as an immigrant, sort of started from not very much, and […]

One Last ReadBy Ray Didinger (Temple University Press; $27.50)A- A compendium of Didinger’s handpicked “favorite” columns from his 26-year career at the Daily News and […]

Public ArtIroquois, by Mark di SuveroA One of the world’s greatest abstract expressionist sculptors, di Suvero — born in Shanghai to Italian parents — has […]

G. Love & Special Sauce, A Year and a Night (Brushfire Records/ Philadelphonic Philms; $19.98)B-Filmed throughout 2006 as Garrett “G. Love” Dutton and his band […]

The Family Diamond By Edward Schwarzschild (Algonquin Books; $13.95)A-The concept isn’t groundbreaking in this book of semi-related short stories about family relationships — big shocker […]