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Features: Sweet City: Our Favorite Cookie
To find our favorite cookie, we asked more than 350 pastry chefs and bakers to send us samples of their favorites. We were in search […]
Sweet City: Best Bakeries
A hazelnut gâteau, Chantilly cream puffs — or even straightforward from-scratch brownies — can intimidate the most accomplished home cook. But the region’s ever-expanding assortment […]
Sweet City: Classic Confections
Doughnuts These heartier versions of hole-less doughnuts get their sweetness from butterscotch sauce and creamy gelato. “I added cold ice cream to warm doughnuts, because […]
All the Vince That’s Fit to Print
ON A MUGGY Friday morning in July, the shareholders of First Penn Bank opened one of the weirder annual meetings in the company’s 82-year history. […]
The Passion of T. O.
Sure, a lot of people hate Terrell Owens. They say he’s full of himself, self-aggrandized, strutting around the football field like he’s walking on water. […]
Features: The Next Great American City
The first sign that something big was changing — that the car had finally stopped skidding and we all, blessedly, remarkably, were still in one […]
Rock ’n’ Roll: Rittenhouse Square’s Excitable Boy
I won’t pretend any of the bad things that are about to happen came as a complete surprise. I knew the difference between the public […]
The Secret Lives of Wasps
In 1964, when Penn sociologist E. Digby Baltzell coined the acronym “Wasp” in his book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America, that station-wagon-driving, […]
The End of the Lie
Man has sifted truth and lies, it seems, as long as we’ve spoken to each other. Eve ate the snake’s apple, and we haven’t gotten […]
Celebrity: Life’s a Beach
"WHEN SURVIVOR SEASON one was on the air, we were on the level of A-list celebrities,” says Gervase Peterson. “People were all over us. We […]
Loco Parentis: He’s a Believer
"COME HERE, I" call to my son Jake from the front porch. Just as I’ve stepped outside to get the mail, the cordons of pink-tinged […]
My Philadelphia Story: Wilma McNabb
What’s it take to be a good mom? Well, there’s not a book on that. You just try to do the best you can. When […]
Contrarian: Wi-Fi? Because We Can
FOR ABOUT A week this summer, the most popular article on the New York Times website was a bleating Tom Friedman column that lamented how […]
Features: Who Really Runs This Town?: Burying Lincoln Steffens
In the spring of 1903, muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens checked into the St. James Hotel, located at 13th and Walnut streets. At the time, Steffens […]