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Testing Shopping Noteworthys
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A.C. Now: Dining
We’ve tackled serious steakhouses, explored tucked-away noodle bars, waited in lines at down-home joints, and sunk into booths at posh casino eateries. We’ve tackled serious […]
A.C. Now: Main Tease
There’s nothing quite like eating raw fish while looking out to the ostensible source of aforementioned seafood. Souzai Sushi & Sake just opened as a […]
The Philly School
For 10 years, Randall Sellers, a 37-year-old, soft-spoken Tyler School of Art graduate with an ironic sense of humor, held down the sorts of jobs […]
Ralph J. Roberts: My Philadelphia Story
I have about 92 bow ties. Maybe 10 years ago, somebody gave me one. It looked kind of interesting, so I got another one. So […]
Power: The Next Howard Dean?
ood help may be hard to find, but when you’re as rich as Tom Knox, you can afford the best. When the 64-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO […]
Couplings: The Angelina Problem
It was early summer, before the event that shook the country to its core — and by that I of course mean before Brad Pitt […]
Exit Interview: Andrea Mitchell
We tried. We honestly tried to uphold a more intellectually refined discourse in honor of NBC News correspondent and former KYW reporter Andrea Mitchell, whose […]
Contrarian: Boys ‘R Us, Inc.
’ve been reading this motivational business book, Jesus, CEO, and even though it’s not much as literature, I think I’ll highlight some passages and send […]
Poker Prodigy
Jordan Berkowitz is fond of diamonds. Two pavé diamond studs hang from his ears. Twelve diamonds mark the hours on the bezel of his TAG […]
Features: Sweet City: Our Favorite Cookie
To find our favorite cookie, we asked more than 350 pastry chefs and bakers to send us samples of their favorites. We were in search […]
Sweet City: Best Bakeries
A hazelnut gâteau, Chantilly cream puffs — or even straightforward from-scratch brownies — can intimidate the most accomplished home cook. But the region’s ever-expanding assortment […]
Sweet City: Classic Confections
Doughnuts These heartier versions of hole-less doughnuts get their sweetness from butterscotch sauce and creamy gelato. “I added cold ice cream to warm doughnuts, because […]
All the Vince That’s Fit to Print
ON A MUGGY Friday morning in July, the shareholders of First Penn Bank opened one of the weirder annual meetings in the company’s 82-year history. […]