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WATCH: Philly Mag’s Nick Vadala Talks to Fox 29 About Weed

Resident marijuana expert Nick Vadala sat down with a Fox 29 crew last month to talk about the latest trend in pot-smoking: hash oil. Here’s […]

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Off the Cuff: October 2013

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the First World War, and we are beginning to see new Woodrow Wilson biographies and other books about […]

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Lynne Abraham Has the Constitution of an Ox

My name is … Lynne—that’s L-Y-N-N-E—Abraham. Almost everybody forgets to put the “e” on there. When people referred to me as the “Deadliest D.A.” … […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Carmine’s Creole Café Act II Turns It Up to 11

There are many food menus at Carmine’s Creole Café Act II, and none of them list the most important thing John Mims cooks there. This […]

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Philadelphia Restaurant Review: Creative, Simple Bistro Fare at Pennsylvania 6

In a city thoroughly accustomed to restaurant turnover, it takes a lot for a renovation to stir up nostalgia. Even the final dismantling of Le […]

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Hot Springs: An Elegant Fall Weekend Escape to Virginia

How to get to Hot Springs: You can drive to Hot Springs in six and a half hours. Alternatively, fly (90 minutes) to Roanoke–the resort […]

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Travel Soccer Is Every Parent’s Nightmare

We aren’t signing our eight-year-old daughter up for travel soccer. At least, I’m pretty sure we aren’t. Like, 96.3 percent sure. Maybe.

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Kathleen Kane’s Gay Marriage Mutiny

At the bottom of a steep block on the west side of Scranton, next to a clapboard home with peeling white paint, there’s a pizza […]

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Can USA250 Make Philly the Star of America’s 250th Birthday?

I was 13 years old in 1976—not exactly a budding patriot, but a good enough student of American history by that point to understand that […]

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Philadelphia Home: A Mid-Century Modern with a View in Lower Merion

Head to The Main Line, home to the estate that inspired The Philadelphia Story, and houses like this one are hard to come by. In […]

Jeffrey Rotwitt at Sun Center
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Can a Philly Movie Studio Really Compete with Hollywood?

He never admitted to anyone that it was a crazy idea, even though at first glance it was obviously crazy. He did keep a self-deprecating […]

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The Food Lover’s Guide to Philly

Philadelphia is just not like other cities. In its neighborhoods, in its politics, in its characters, in its food, this town has never been an […]

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The Food Lover’s Guide to Philly: Pasta

It’s hard to admit this, but the most notable recent happening on the Philadelphia pasta front was a tweet from 2011. “At Eataly in New […]

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A Vegetarian in Cheesesteak City

It’s a Sunday night, at the tail end of a beautiful August weekend and an ugly Shore traffic jam. Jamonera—the 13th Street tapas restaurant with […]