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Jaime Salm’s 8 Favorite Things
When you design brightly modern, sustainable products for a living, chances are the things you live with on a daily basis are pretty cool. This […]
What We Love: Philly Wine Festival
This is one occasion when you don’t have to feel guilty about drinking wine. Now in it’s 11th year, the Philadelphia Wine Festival is a one-night-only […]
My Son Zachary
FOR MONTHS NOW—years, really—I have thought about writing this story. Over and over, I played the words in my mind: what I would say, how […]
Doug Collins, Sixer Savior
“I love these guys.” Certain words aren’t heard much in the male sporting world, and “love” is one. It’s a word that makes most everyone […]
Artist Adam Wallacavage Lives Seaside in South Philly
My house is: My sketchbook. Wall color: I was trying to go for the color of the Art Nouveau Paris subway stations, the dripping green […]
Restaurant Review: Jamonera Is Barbuzzo’s Sexy Older Sister
At Jamonera, where every lowball glass and liquor bottle glimmers in light the color of carotid blood and a skeleton traipses across a wall mural […]
Top Five Philly Florists
Cottage Flowers Malvern: 222 Roberts Lane Wander into Heather Potter’s flower shop and you’ll feel like you’ve stumbled across an enchanted forest. A small fountain […]
The Dubious Decline of TV Sports
This is what it’s like to be on top. Marshall Harris is sucking down a pink frozen margarita inside El Vez, head on a swivel […]
28 Amazing New Ways Philly Doctors Can Save Your Life
You don’t want to be sick—but hey, if you are, thank God you’re in Philadelphia. Nowhere in the country—in the world—can you find a more […]
Off the Cuff: May 2012
In their hysterical push to make the Trayvon Martin killing proof that racism is still very much alive in America, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, […]
Moral Hazards: Philadelphia’s Ongoing Pension Crisis
Early on the morning of June 13, 1984, John Keyser and eight other firemen entered a burning rowhome on the 2000 block of Tulip Street in […]
Is Driving Going Out of Style in Philly?
When I was 15, my father taught me the skills needed to drive on the highway, but it fell to my mother to teach the […]
Restaurant Review: Lemon Hill
What do people want from a local bar and restaurant? More and more, the answer seems to be a place that isn’t merely satisfied with […]
Confessions of Philadelphia’s One Percent
One-percenters. We’ve been hearing a lot about them lately, ever since wall street became not just the seat of finance, but a place to hang […]
Why the All-New Barnes Museum Matters
I visited the Barnes in Merion only once, a few months before it closed. Here’s what I will always remember: the adventure of getting there. […]