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What to drink with food from your favorite Philadelphia establishments.

WITH: The often spicy Indian offerings at Girard Avenue BYOB Tiffin. DRINK: Indian cuisine presents a pairing challenge, but Pieropan Soave Classico (Chairman’s Selection, $11.99) […]

About our city’s new Kensington- based craft brewer: Philadelphia Brewing Co.

Our city has a new craft brewer: Philadelphia Brewing Co., which makes a delightful range of quality ales in its Kensington brewery, after which this […]

Doylestown’s Slate Bleu embraces absinthe

ABSINTHE, THAT ONCE-NOTORIOUS spirit that smells of sage and tastes first of dusty licorice and then of bitter, earned its cachet in the glasses — […]

Typically the cured or smoked belly of a pig, America’s favorite breakfast meat also lends itself to grown-up, dinnertime dishes.

BACON AND SCALLOPS Though a kosher nightmare, there’s something about the combination of bacon and scallops. We’re just glad the Oceanaire Seafood Room on Washington […]

About Conneticut-based cable sports channel VERSUS moving to the Comcast building

This month, VERSUS — the cable-TV home of the NHL, the Tour de France, and dozens more random sports-related series (Jeff Foxworthy hosts a hunting […]

About Swierczynski’s cheerily sanguineous tale of workplace mayhem that’s ironically set at 1818 Market Street.

Severance Package By Duane Swierczynski(St. Martin’s Minotaur; $13.95) I blame City Paper. Certainly nothing in his years here at Philly Mag could have prompted former […]

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.

About the ledgendary Philadelphia Warriors owner Eddie Gottlieb.

The Mogul: Eddie Gottlieb, Philadelphia Sports Legend and Pro Basketball PioneerBy Rich Westcott(Temple University Press; $35) Even the most casual Philly sports fan knows the […]

Can developer Curtis Bashaw really turn A.C. into…

ON A FREEZING TUESDAY LAST WINTER, months before his retro-chic Chelsea hotel in Atlantic City would open — a hotel that isn’t built around a […]

Time, Les Bon Temps, William Douglas Steakhouse and Devil’s Den are reviewed.

TIME Jason and Delphine Evenchik, who also own 13th Street’s Vintage Wine Bar, could have called their new restaurant Decision Time; the former Ludwig’s now […]

About the delivery service specializing in comfort food for dogs.

Doggie Diner215-735-2423; getdoggiediner.com A delivery service specializing in comfort food for Fifi may sound a smidge overindulgent, but unlike, say, dog dyeing or a pawdicure, […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Radio: Hear Philly

Hear PhillyHearphilly.com Not long ago, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation paired with KYW to launch Hear Philly, an Internet radio show designed to give […]

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.

A tale of influence, money, accusations of betrayal — and the impact Dick Sprague and Vince Fumo’s shattered relationship is having on the rest of us.

THEY WATCHED EACH other, for a long time, from a distance. Eighteen years separate them in age, a gap as wide as a father and […]

Stephen Starr is set to open Parc this month and you can bet it will offer a different experience from every other Starr spot.

Stephen Starr is set to open his Rittenhouse bistro, Parc, this month, and you can bet it will — in classic Starr style — offer […]

What will New York chef Eric Ripert feed Philadelphians at his new 10 Arts?

Eric Ripert — yes, the silver-haired, French-accented chef who’s the talent behind New York’s famed Le Bernardin — is standing in Sonny D’Angelo’s butcher shop, […]

Pulse: Chatter: Brooke de la Villanova: High Society June 2008

Real estate is no fun these days, dumplings — unless you’re  Alex Plotkin, the man making Edgar fat with all those filets at Chops. (Delish!) […]

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