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City Council to Decide if Your Waitress Will Keep Sneezing on Your Salad

Remember the sick-leave bill that City Council considered last year? It’s not actually dead. Instead, like a waiter with a 100-degree fever and a runny […]

The Scene

HughE Dillon: King of Prussia Beerfest Royale

Over the weekend, the first King of Prussia Beerfest Royale took place in the mall’s parking lot. Nearly 350 attended the VIP Preview on Friday, […]

Foobooz

Life After Top Chef Contains a Healthy Dose of Reality

Wednesday night saw Bravo’s latest dip into the the Top Chef well as Life After Top Chef debuted opposite the Presidential debate. Philadelphia’s Jennifer Carroll is joined […]

Foobooz

Fro-Yo For a Cause: Yogorino Fundraises for Steppingstone Scholars

On October 6th from 11 a.m. to midnight Yogorino, at both their Philly locations at 233 S. 20th and 1205 Walnut, will be donating half […]

City Life

VIDEO: Philly Cop Who Punched Woman Makes an Incredible Peach Cobbler

Lt. Jonathan Josey—the Philly cop who made national headlines by punching a woman in the face last weekend—apparently makes a scrumptious peach cobbler. Josey was […]

Foobooz

New York Times on Jennifer Carroll and Life After Top Chef

They are the opposite of Ms. Carroll, who has sad, defeated eyes. Of the four, she is the only one without a restaurant (or soon-to-open […]

City Life

Oreo’s Anti-Bullying Message

In honor of National Bullying Prevention Month, Nabisco’s Oreo launched a new campaign. We have to hand it to them – the company’s been very proactive about […]

Foobooz

Cease and Desist at Corner/Foodery Spot on Sansom

This morning when we were heading over to Federal Donuts, we snapped the above photo through a scratch in the window at the forthcoming Corner/Foodery […]

Foobooz

NoBL Brings Some Heat to Lansdowne

Trey Popp urges you to see him in Lansdowne, the dry borough just west of Philadelphia where Sam Jacobson is turning out “banging” plates at […]

City Life

If You Survive the Zombies, the Bacon Famine Will Kill You

Global finances, zombies, nukes—these are apocalypses I can deal with (in order: stockpile guns, non-perishables, and gold; join a multicultural band of Southern survivors led […]

City Life

Prepare for the Great Bacon Famine of 2013

Britain’s National Pig Association has issued a press release indicating that the looming global pork shortage is “unavoidable.” International failure of maize and soya harvests […]

City Life

Gawker Calls Out Staph Meal Blogger for Trolling Too Far

Joshua Scott Albert—the blogger who pissed off Philly restaurant owners with Staph Meal—is supposedly set to turn himself into police. Gawker picked up the story […]

City Life

Del Frisco’s Buys More Wine and Booze Than Barclay Prime and Butcher & Singer Combined

Anyone serving wine or liquor in Pennsylvania has to buy their hooch from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. At my request, the PLCB has made […]

Foobooz

Food Trucks Debut at Night Market

A few recently opened food trucks in the area will be making their Night Market debuts at the Chinatown event on October 4th. Three new […]

City Life

Q&A: Marcie Turney on Food and Fitness

Have you visited 13th and Sansom lately—the block chef Marcie Turney calls home? She and her partner Valerie Safran practically own the neighborhood, with shops and […]