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Primp: Close Shave
If you already know and love Groom, the modern-meets-old-fashioned men’s barbershop on Walnut Street, you’ll love this If you already know and love Groom, the […]
Shelter: Bryn More
Our favorite home shop, Ashton-Whyte, has moved its Wayne digs to a space across from the Bryn Mawr Film-Institute One of our fave home shops, […]
Taste: Annotated Recipe: French Onion Soup
There are kitchens that can turn a simple onion into something transcendent with a little patience Too often, French onion soup is dishwater-bland covered by […]
Taste: Food For Thought: Everything Old Is New Again
Can two Philly restaurants reinvent themselves? The history of Marigold has been one of constant evolution. Throughout the spot’s 70-plus-year tenure in West Philly’s Spruce […]
Taste: In Search Of … Curries
Curry may have its roots in the Indian subcontinent, but it’s come to describe a wide variety of saucy dishes IndonesianFoodie-adored South Philly hole-in-the-wall Hardena […]
Taste: Where We’re Eating March 2008
Find out where some of the Philly Mag staff is eating this month Ugly American This cozy Front Street spot feels like a pub but […]
Taste: Eat This Now: Milk
“Got Milk?” There’s more to milk than meets the eye Milk, for most people, just is. The only question beyond “Got Milk?” is “Whole or […]
Good Life: Model Citizen: Rhonda Willingham, 39
Who: A saintly Philly native who brought her D.C.-based program, MenzFit, home in 2007. What: Her nonprofit helps down-on-their-luck guys (more than 75 in Philly, […]
Good Life: Homegrown: Above Par
The views from the fifth hole at Pine Valley, the clubhouse at Merion, and Spring Mill’s bunkers aren’t what they used to be. They’re better. […]
Its 5 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Husband Is?
As their wives carpool the kids to soccer, closeted suburban men troll the city’s bathhouses for anonymous gay sex ZIPPERING HIS COAT, John leaves the […]
Pulse: Sam Katz’s Power Lunch: Library Scientist
Sam Katz finds that Free Library Foundation CEO Linda E. Johnson gives new meaning to the phrase “book-smart” Libraries tend to be rather sleepy operations, […]
Pulse: Chatter: Brooke de la Villanova: High Society March 2008
Brooke dishes on celeb weddings Fresh from her Mexican honeymoon, the adorable Zoe Krasner, daughter of our own Sharon Pinkenson, must still be opening gifts […]
Mystery: Deadly Lessons
They live in nice homes. They’re popular jocks. So why are the kids of Council Rock trying to kill themselves? THERE WERE NO Christmas lights […]
Pulse: Chatter: Nightlife: Dancing With the Not-Really-Stars
“Celebs” not re-sailing on the Love Boat are washing up in Atlantic City and being hired by club promoters. In the old days (the ’80s), […]
Pulse: Chatter: Philadelphia Magazine 100 Years: Thing of Beauty
In honor of our centennial, we look back at some of the stories that shaped Philly Mag Long before Brangelina was on our radar, Angelina […]