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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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, […]