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WHEN I WAS IN CULINARY SCHOOL, my roommate gave me an authentic, hand-cranking pasta machine. The gift was inspired by my love for my Italian […]

GOOD FURNITURE STANDS STURDILY, offering form and function until we relegate the tired and timeworn to the attic. Dusting off and sprucing up a forgotten […]

WHO NEEDS FAMOUS French botanist Patrick Blanc and his hubbub-causing, internationally chic vertical gardens? Not us. Not anymore. As of this year, we have our […]

Bahdeebahdu Vaunted aesthetes Warren Muller, creator of coveted light sculptures, and RJ Thornburg, crafter of fabulous interiors, stepped their avant-garde right on up to South Kensington, […]

EILEEN TOGNINI LEADS clients on thorough, easygoing searches for the right artwork. Tognini, who studied fine art and marketing, favors contemporary works by local sculptors, […]

THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THE GARAGE: It’s the room that, more than any other, has the potential to become a chronic, raging junk heap. As […]

THIRD-GENERATION FURNITURE maker Adam Rung began his apprenticeship at age four in his parents’ Chambersburg woodshop. Now in his own Port Richmond studio, Rung crafts […]

EGGSHELL. TAUPE. CREAM. Off-white. (Yawn.) Sure, we all love the familiar neutrals, but they can’t help but start to feel a tad … safe. Sedate, […]

PART REAL (IT’S an unedited photo), part ethereal (but the landscape is a diorama with a miniature plastic tree), Philadelphia photographer John Murphy’s fantastical art […]

I’m a do-it-yourselfer when it comes to home improvement, which helps to explain why I’m a take-your-own-damned-time-to-do-it-yourselfer. But even I can only look at a […]

I don’t have one square inch of earth to plant, water or harvest. Not that atypical for a city-dweller, but, for two years, I have […]

As if the Beijing Olympics weren’t enough to put a foodie in the mood for Chinese food, I’m currently reading an engrossing food memoir set […]

This week should hopefully be the opening of the second location of mod kids’ store Piccolini on 20th Street (the original is in Bryn Mawr). […]

The city’s brewheds might be flocking to Port Richmond’s Memphis Taproom for the bar’s menu of 50-plus craft beers, but it’s chef Jesse Kimball’s beer-battered, […]

Phillymag.com theater critic M.B. Case returns from a hiatus (which took her either to Borneo or to too many afternoons lingering over Bellinis at Rouge, […]