When Dance Magazine ran a special insert in 2004 on Philly’s hot new dance scene, Nicole Bindler was already packing for the move. She knew […]

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“If the Civil War were today, the South would win hands down,” wrote Glenda McCardle to her hometown newspaper, the Raleigh News & Observer, after […]

How did the movie people find you? It was my first competition, and someone pulled me aside and yelled, “We got a newbie!” I said, […]

Lou Rose is a Center City dentist who’s also a doctor — which may be why he’s extra-sensitive to how the mouth relates to the […]

Ah, October: that in-between fashion phase when you’re still wearing t-shirts but starting to bust out lightweight sweaters, too. To smooth out the bumps under […]

We confess: We totally play those free-with-purchase Urban Outfitters CDs at parties and pass them off as our own mixes. But lately, it’s not just […]

Patsy Dougherty has always loved playing dress-up. As a kid, she’d make her own Halloween costumes, donning her grandmother’s antique horsehair-fringed cape and reinventing herself […]

Brett Collier and Gary Tidmore like to say their Gayborhood coffee shop is like Cheers, where everybody knows your name. On a hot summer day, […]

KIBETT MENGECH Chef du cuisine, Ansill Age: 33 His food: “Stripped-down small plates,” with an if-you-dare element. How he’ll change Philadelphia: Mengech is making adventurous […]

TOURS Philadelphia in the Movies Film.org By Jennifer Schwartz We all know about the Rocky stairs, but can you point out the City Hall-area manhole […]

Philly is an odd retail town. We don’t have a Crate & Barrel, but we have seven Sneaker Villa stores. There seems to be a […]

“It’s not one of our nights,” said a local real estate developer over mini crabcakes on a Thursday evening. He was explaining why his wife […]

LIKE MOST BUSY DOCTORS, Center City internist Matthew Frankel makes a valiant effort to keep up with the latest pharmaceuticals. But with medications flooding the […]

Since early summer, when it became clear that the Phillies’ season would once again be mired in futility (this year’s theme: We Suck, Version 26.0), […]