WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH HAD JUST SAID YES. IT happened in Munich over lunch at a restaurant above an open-air market a few blocks from the Vier […]

With Victorian curves and glassy luster, artist Adam Wallacavage’s plaster chandelier doesn’t immediately register as an … octopus. But take a second look, and there […]

Although I’m a word person by trade, photo shoots are my favorite part of my job. I like them because they’re exciting: fast-paced and artful, […]

ON THE 7TH of this month, go down to Dave and Buster’s, Philadelphia’s adult romper room on the Delaware, and you’ll see a private party […]

After three decades as the heart of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the concertmaster takes his final encore. Bravo!

BOB HOLMES RAISED the binoculars to his eyes. He had been a college music teacher for two decades and, after years of living in North […]

Who needs fairy godparents when you’ve got fairy-tale-worthy grandparents? To turn the third floor of their 1930s Ventnor Avenue summer home into a sleepover paradise […]

SWEEPING WESTWARD across Europe this past May, the Philadelphia Orchestra played with as much virtuosity as anyone could recall. From Warsaw to Amsterdam to Madrid, […]

The Hill Company This sunny suburban sister of Chestnut Hill’s classic outdoor-living store stocks the same patio essentials — Pawleys Island hammocks, Kingsley-Bate teak, Summer Classics […]

Shot by shot, photographer Paige Chapman teases out the details of clients’ houses with an expert eye: the legend of a Main Line colonial, the […]

Another unique storefront has popped up near 13th and Sansom, a corner already abuzz with an eclectic mix of tenants (foodie destinations Lolita, El Vez […]

The latke, traditionally made of shredded potatoes, onion and matzo and dipped in either sweet applesauce or cooling sour cream, is a Hanukkah custom. But […]

Forget limoncello, the bracing traditional Italian meal-ender. At Valentino’s on the Square, a cozy Italian spot near Rittenhouse, cold weather brings ­“chocolate-cello,” a boozy, satisfying […]

Daniel Stern doesn’t need to be modest. His résumé boasts stints with Rocco DiSpirito, Daniel Boulud, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and, most recently, Georges Perrier. Stern’s repertoire […]

On a damp Sunday afternoon in October, Robert Martin Keen drove down a craggy road in Landisville, Lancaster County. He parked in front of his […]