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Ah, the cruel joke of summer: You’re supposed to have washboard abs, and yet the “three-H” weather makes you crave ice cream. Give in to our three favorite sundaes

Adults Only Chocolate and chilies together? They’re divine. At The Bent Spoon, house-made Valrhona chocolate/­heirloom habanero ice cream is topped with chocolate sauce, fresh whipped […]

Taste: Where We’re Eating July

PALACE AT THE BEN A stark contrast to the run-down West Philly Indian spots and no-frills Tiffin on Girard Avenue, Palace at the Ben, near […]

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Good Life: Model Citizen: Julian Toussaint

Julian Toussaint, 29 Who A St. Lucia native and the new masseur at Gladwyne’s OMG Salon. (And, we predict, the future star of every Main […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: July 2007

NONFICTION Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River By Beth Kephart (Temple University Press; $23) By Sandy Hingston How you feel about Flow […]

From the Editor: Design of the Times

Next year, this magazine, the oldest city magazine in the nation, will celebrate its 100th birthday. When you’ve been around as long as we have, […]

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

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

A six-figure budget. Hundreds of helpers. Giant art installations. A tentacled kraken. This prom is like no other.

Pulse: Chatter: Buttering Nutter Up

It didn’t take long for the Michael Nutter suitors to come calling. Before a May campaign swing through town, Barack Obama — who’d backed Chaka […]

Pulse: John’s Water Ice

On the face of it, the name seems redundant: Isn’t “water” another form of “ice”? Not when you put the words together. This is no […]

Off the Cuff: July 2007

Finally, the attempt of Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell to hold up the Barnes Foundation’s move to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is behind us, so I’m beginning […]

The Good Life: The 411, July 2007

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How a funeral service for one of the city’s most esteemed lawyers turned into the bitch-slap heard down Broad Street

“It was,” says one person in attendance, “the first-ever eulogy as attack ad.” The setting: the recent funeral of legendary Philly attorney Alan Davis. The […]

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

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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: Andrea Kremer

Like light beer, foam fingers, and cries of “If you paid as much attention to me as you do that damn game, our marriage wouldn’t […]

Adrian Pasdar is no stranger to the ebb and flow of human experience: One minute he’s a cheerleader-dating jock at Marple Newtown High, and the next, his thumb is hacked off in a freak community theater table-saw accident. He was in Top Gun

Exit Interview: Where did you grow up? Adrian Pasdar: 39th and Powelton. All my friends were black. I didn’t know I wasn’t black until we […]

What to Drink: Green Point Chardonnay 2003, Tarra Valley, Australia

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Susanna Foo, owner of recently opened Susanna Foo Gourmet Kitchen in Radnor, enlivens Thanksgiving dinner with an easy, no-cook cranberry recipe.

1 large orange 1 12-ounce bag fresh cranberries, washed and drained ¼ c. honey ½ c. granulated sugar 1 hot pepper, minced 1 Tbsp. ginger […]

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