magazine

City Life

Taste: Dining Out: Where We’re Eating: Han Dynasty

“Here’s your friggin’ fried rice,” said owner Han Chiang, who rules his sunny new Old City outpost the same way he does his Exton and […]

City Life

Pulse: Chatter: Trends: Shades of Green

The idea of green as chic appeared in these parts around the time the iPhone became the new Tory Burch ballet flat/Alhambra necklace/Birkin bag. As […]

City Life

Politics: Honey, I Shrunk the Mayor

ONE NIGHT LATE last October, Congressman Bob Brady was home, waiting for the phone to ring. Brady seems to get involved in almost every sensitive […]

City Life

Pulse: Style Scene: April’s Finds: Sale: Home Advantage

John Derian is known for turning vintage découpage and ephemera into endearing domed paperweights, letter trays and lamps. Petulia’s Folly is offering a rare sale […]

City Life

Taste: Cravings: Crayfish

It’s as much about the ritual as it is the salty, sweet morsels: Grab a group, order the crustaceans by the bucket, platter or pound, […]

City Life

Taste: Dining Out: Where We’re Eating: Mixx

The downstairs half of Azie on Main (formerly Maia) suffers an identity crisis: Its sports-bar theme and boudoir-inspired damask booths and yearbook-ish photos of Radnor […]

City Life

Pulse: Style Scene: April’s Finds: Deal: Shirts

Nothing fits like custom, and Media’s B. Gross is looking to set you up for spring. Buy five bespoke shirts (starting at $125 each) and […]

City Life

Taste: Dining Out: Dinner With: Munish Narula

Number of Tiffins by the end of 2010: We’ll have a total of six by the end of summer, and hopefully two more by the […]

City Life

Pulse: Trimmings: Second Skin

We love snakeskin for the instant drama it adds to any ensemble. And this spring, its muted tones and classic styles mean we can pair […]

City Life

Pulse: Pursuits: Sports: No. 1 Fan

What he’ll wear: Light blue, of course. Accessories: “Some members are sewing gigantic flags.” Whether he’ll start a wave: “Hard to do, because we’re standing […]

City Life

Taste: Spirits: Sipping Savant: Mix Master Mania

First it was the local celebrity chef, followed by the know-your-farmer revolution … and now? Our personal-connection obsession has trickled down into drink, in the […]

City Life

Exit Interview: Tom Keifer

IF THERE WERE any justice in this world, Tom Keifer and Cinderella would be to Philadelphia what Jon Bon Jovi is to Jersey — an […]

City Life

Pulse: Chatter: Aw, Mom

The ex-wife of a well-known casino magnate and mother of a Penn undergrad had placed a call to Campus Apartments. With properties in 50 college […]

City Life

Pulse: Chatter: Brooke De La Villanova

Neither wind nor rain nor gallons of snow could keep moi from the Museum of Art’s Picasso opening, where we flitted among Lisa Nutter (dazzling […]

City Life

Schoolgirl Crush

IT’S A STORY we think we know. A girl — a young girl — falls hard in love. The man — a much older man, […]