The road to being a Birds cheerleader is paved with torturous tryouts, exhausting dance routines and lots of mascara. But could today’s pom-pom girls also […]

It’s easy to snack in this town, to taste, to nibble. We have tapas, mezze, cicchetti, and the generic “small plate,” all served family-style, but […]

With premium Napa and ­Sonoma wine prices off the charts, it’s a rare treat to try truly noble California cabernet sauvignon for a cool 20 […]

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 […]