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Health: Thanksgiving: The Day After
Tips for your post-meal workout plan — guess what? You don’t have to kill yourself, either! Your average Thanksgiving meal will run you between 1,500 […]
From the Editor: Good Times
By definition, if you’re a journalist, you kvetch a lot. You wring your hands and try to poke and prod people to do better. We […]
How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Support the Arts
Show Off Van GoghWant to prove your love for the Art Museum (and writing a check for the new Frank Gehry-designed main building expansion just […]
Off the Cuff: December 2007
It is very hard to look into the mirror and see what everyone else sees, but now there’s no escaping it: Philadelphians are ugly. We […]
How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Save a Life
Eight ways you can become a better Philadelphian and help save lives. Hand Out DaisiesThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has so many opportunities for good-doing […]
Taste: Coffee Culture: Eat This Now: Coffee
Forget Starbucks or Dunkin’ Doughnuts. Here are our 65 top coffee shops in the area. … and tea, and hot chocolate, even steamed cider. Because […]
Taste: Spirits: The Half-Caf No-Foam Nonfat Martini?
Coffee, chai and chocolate make the move from Starbucks staples to cocktail shakers. Sweet, creamy drinks are a blast from the distant past. Minty Grasshoppers […]
Taste: Right-Now Recipe: Apple Spice Coffee Cake
How to make this perfect-anytime cake from Mount Airy’s High Point Café. Coffee Cake 1 ½ c. unsalted butter, plus extra to prepare pan1 ½ […]
Exit Interview: Dom Irrera
South Philly’s funniest comic comes home for the holidays. Here’s the unfunny thing about comedy — sometimes the guys who get the biggest laughs don’t […]
Taste: What to Drink: Voyant Chai Cream, $18.99
Few new spirits are as distinctively different and delicious as Voyant Chai Cream, a Bollywood riff on the Baileys theme. The inspiration for this decadent […]
King Kenny
Why do some people still say that Kenny Gamble isn’t good? Even strolling along the sidewalk, nodding to passers-by, Kenny Gamble exudes a certain grandness. […]
Features: Good to Go
On a hot afternoon four months ago, Larry Shaeffer was driving east on Pine Street in rush-hour traffic when the cars in front of him […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Exhibit: First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
Take a peek into the personas of the Real Housewives of Washington, D.C. First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image, The National Constitution Center, through […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: On The Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
Peer into Starr’s staff meetings, Penn dorm rooms pre-party, and 2nd Street’s VIP lounges. On The Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife By David Grazian […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Ayer
The Ayer: love child of Hahnemann and a W Hotel. The Ayer Condominiums, 210 West Washington Square, theayer.com. The latest entry in Philly’s condo boom, […]