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You can take the sweet girl out of Georgia, but you can’t take away her Southern charm or explosive laugh

You can take the girl out of Georgia and ship her off to the University of the Arts, but you can’t take away her Southern […]

When Rick Olivieri was kicked out of Reading Terminal after selling cheesesteaks, a different culture clash threatened the market

EARLIER THIS SUMMER, IN Judge Mark Bernstein’s chambers on the fifth floor of City Hall, the most memorable moment of Rick Olivieri v. Reading Terminal […]

Three years ago, Newtown Square’s Jackie O’Connor met Germantown’s Nicole Austin-Hall. It would end up changing both their lives

COLLOM STREET IS ONLY a 40-minute drive from Newtown Square. But as Jackie O’Connor pulled onto the Germantown block, the neighborhood seemed foreign, a place […]

Quick reviews of local books, music and more

MuseumSimeone Foundation Museum6825-31 Norwitch Drive, 215-365-7233, simeonemuseum.org The Simeone Foundation Museum, open since June, has concrete floors, exposed metal beams, makeshift partitions, and what is […]

Between meetings, Drexel president Taki Papadakis schools Sam Katz (over salads) on creating an A-list university

Thirteen years in as president of Drexel University, ebullient Constantine “Taki” Papadakis is renowned as Drexel’s savior — the man who turned a school on […]

Brooke’s latest dish on Philly’s high society

“It’s cool to be Jewish,” Wayne Kimmel told the Jewish rye of media, The Exponent, in February. If that’s the case, Aspen this summer was […]

Hoagies as health food

Statisticians describe the home of the hoagie this way: Philadelphia indexes at 151 for deli-meat consumption. Translation: We eat 51 percent more cold cuts than […]

Racism is alive and well inside Philly taxis

After Barack Obama’s riveting “A More Perfect Union” speech at the Constitution Center in March, the nation’s first black presidential nominee was lucky he didn’t […]

Drama on the greens

“It is with a heavy hand,” started a recent letter from the Green Valley Country Club to its members, “that we are forced to compose […]

A gun-control crusader takes a road trip

If you happened to find yourself in a diner in Wellsboro, Williamsport, Punxsutawney or some other puny Pennsylvania town this summer, you might have been […]

The new face of public art in Philadelphia?

Long after business hours, two women are dancing on a ledge 20 feet up inside the Comcast Center. People outside stop and watch through the […]

A roundup of swanky restaurants with an affordable bar menu.

Everybody knows that restaurants are expensive. And Philly certainly doesn’t suffer from a shortage of eateries at which you can easily spend hundreds of dollars […]

A round-up of the top 5 shops for men’s and women’s clothes in the Philadelphia area.

Hi! I’m Emily Gagne (well, Goulet, really — I am newly married and still in the process of figuring out how to change my name), […]

All pretzels are not created equal in Philadelphia. Find that Philly taste without turning the staple snack into a diet disaster

When a Philly pretzel craving hits, it’s hard to follow the nutrition information on the back label. And the real deal, Philly street pretzels, don’t […]

Marnie Old recommends a light off-dry wine that pairs well with spicy-sweet cuisine.

Off-dry wines get a bad rap. People assume that a hint of sweetness is a sign of low quality. Most cheapo wines may be sweet, […]

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