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  It was, quite literally, a great branding idea. The simple wooden hangers that lined the racks of the bustling Philly boutique had been nondescript: […]

I keep thinking about a blog post that one of our writers here at Philadelphia magazine recently put up. Victor Fiorillo was riding the trolley […]

  Whoosh! A gust of chilly night air sweeps in as the doors open onto the theater lobby on a rainy, bone-chilling­ night that only […]

  How does one person (not named Scorsese­) win a multitude of lifetime achievement awards? First, it helps if you live to be 90. But […]

                            A soaking rainstorm has descended upon Center City, but judging by […]

  The first thing you notice about the Badlands is the Christmas lights. Most outsiders assume there’s little more to this pocket of West Kensington […]

  Let’s begin with the Doomsday Scenario. For the record, that’s my phrase, not Katherine Gajewski’s.­ But as Philadelphia’s director of sustainability starts to talk […]

This morning, GLAAD announced the nominees for the 23rd Annual Media Awards. There will be three events in New York, Los Angeles in San Francisco […]

    Fishtown is fun. It’s drinking-a-local-beer-while-watching­-a-local-band fun. It’s ping-pong-in-a-beer-garden fun. It’s 25-cent-video-games fun. So it makes perfect sense that Barcade would open in the […]

  Calling an area “quaint” should be an automatic­ kiss of death on any neighborhood Hot List (see: New Hope). As with strippers and cars, […]

A couple of years ago, I took banjo lessons from a charming, hyper-talented professional jazz guitarist named Tonino Montella, who has a great little storefront […]

  It took about four hours to make the pies: peeling and slicing the apples, rolling the dough, carving out little stars from the excess […]

      1. Your secret winter­ weapon: This thoroughly­ modern contraption lets you fire a snowball up to 60 feet, so you can save […]

According to Ann Gitter, there are two archetypal styles of home decor: the London way—grittier, more urban, just a bit off—and the Milan way, polished […]

      It’s a Tuesday night, and I’m tap-dancing at a bus stop. It’s raining (so Gene Kelly!), and cars that pass by splash […]