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Exit Interview: Jim Cramer

After seeing Jim Cramer scream and stomp through his nightly financial advice inferno on CNBC, Mad Money (think Wall $treet Week meets Jerry Springer), one […]

Pif’s David Ansill brings caviar and razor clams to the former Judy’s

When David Ansill got his first cooking job at Queen Village’s Judy’s, serving up plateloads of meatloaf and apple pie, he never thought he would […]

The Asian restaurant standard gets an update

Spring rolls were once the sole domain of Asian restaurants, with fillings limited to julienned carrots, cabbage and wood ear fungi, interlaced with pork or […]

Zinfandel is much more than Sutter Home’s blush

Like all fine wine grapes, zinfandel has European origins; its roots were traced recently to southern Italy’s primitivo variety, which originated along Croatia’s Dalmatian coast. […]

Once the province of grandmothers, tea is the new status drink

The shelves of the small shop on Rittenhouse Square are dotted with neat, informative signs organizing the merchandise by variety and geography. Behind the register, […]

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Our world-champion Eagles, a messy traffic stop, an unexpected councilperson, and the Delco pope

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.

A meal at Greek Estia brings both highs (the extensive fish selection) and lows (the service snafus)

Estia quite literally puts fish on a pedestal. The cavernous Greek restaurant, which faces the Academy of Music from Locust Street, packs its finny finest […]

With garlicky shrimp sizzling on the plancha and Serrano hams dangling above the bar, Jose Garces refines the notion of tapas at his sleek new boîte, Amada

We have placed our orders at Amada, after lengthy debate about the more than 60 tapas possibilities, and are ready to explore the artistry of […]

Taste: Cape May Salt Oysters

Though often thought of as a cool, relaxing summer food, oysters store up sugars in the frigid winter waters and are actually sweeter, plumper and […]

The Dancing Master Part Two

IN A MATTER OF MONTHS, the Korean press had begun to get word that all was not well at the Foundation headquarters in Sosa. A […]

This is the City of Brotherly Love, right? So we decided to put an end to the bar brawls, talk-show tiffs and family rifts by asking you to vote on Philly’s all-time top everything, from mascot to mayor to diva to quarterback to Bacon. Yeah, Bacon.

WHO’S THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME? You know how it goes. You’re at Dirty Frank’s, minding your own business, when some moron starts spouting off […]

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

Beloved Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo became first-time parents — and gave their species a ray of hope.

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

Fifty years after founding their legendary Philadelphia International Records, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, with friends and collaborators from Thom Bell to John Oates to Patti LaBelle, look back on the musical partnership that came to define the city.

Exit Interview: Mike Schmidt

Though Mike Schmidt’s relationship with the media and fans was about as cozy as the seats at the Vet, his Hall of Fame career was […]

Taste: Foods You Don’t Know: Barrel-Cut Beef

WHAT IT IS: The best-marbled part of the rib eye, offering filet-like texture with bold rib-eye flavor, minus fat, bone, and toughened outer edge. The […]

Taste: Cookbook: Chewy Cookies

I KNEW WE were in trouble when my wife, nearly nine months pregnant, asked me to pick up a roll of Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies. […]

This man — this pinkie-ringed, purple-Jaguared blue-chip lawyer — could only exist in one of two places: a pulp-fiction novel set in 1931, or present-day Philadelphia. And guess where Jimmy Binns is?

IT’S HARD TO KNOW which Jimmy Binns story to start with, because Jimmy Binns is nothing if not a cultivator of vivid stories. Some rise […]

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