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Off the Cuff: August 2011
Now that I’ve taken a month off for navel-gazing on the Margate beach, I’m back, and my timing couldn’t be better: I’ll slip right into […]
Getaway: Lake Placid
Lake Placid Lodge, the lone resort on New York’s Lake Placid, is a sprawling manse that hearkens back to the Gilded Age, when the downstate […]
The Revisit: Hardena Waroeng Surabaya Restaurant
The man sitting across the aisle on the bus to Lamonae spoke to me. His name was Abdul, and his eyes glowed brightly over a […]
Restaurant Review: M Restaurant
YOU ENTER A WROUGHT-IRON GATE on 8th Street, follow a brick path past a blaze of pink azaleas, duck under the low-hanging boughs of a […]
Restaurant Review: Talula’s Garden
A FILMMAKER WOULD OPEN with a bird’s-eye shot of the mushroom pâté en croûte. The camera would linger for a moment on the centerpiece—a broad […]
Atlantic City’s Last, Last, Last, Last, Last, Last Chance
PANIC SEIZED ME twice on my last trip to Atlantic City. The first occasion: I’m in the fifth-floor bar of the Chelsea Hotel at happy […]
Is Michael Vick For Real?
“I stand before you a changed man.” Michael Vick has never liked speaking in public. On this June day, one of his guys insists that […]
It’s a Wawa World
JEREMY PLAUCHE IS A burly, rowdy-looking guy — six feet, maybe 300 pounds, with the bold facial hair of a modern 24-year-old — but he […]
One of Us: Jen Utley
My full name is … Jennifer Cooper Utley. I am a … Pisces. I was born in … San Francisco. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for […]
From Champion Boxer to Down and Out: Matthew Saad Muhammad’s Story
“BOXING IS NO GOOD for anybody,” says Matthew Saad Muhammad, landing a non sequitur flush on my chin. For the past hour, the 57-year-old former […]
Linvilla Orchards: The Disneyland of Family Farms
YOUR FIRST THOUGHT, as you descend into Media’s Linvilla Orchards, is that you might be at the wrong place. You turned in here looking for […]
Philly’s Political Odd Couple
THIS ISN’T THE CONVERSATION Bill Green wants to be having. Ask him about something in his wheelhouse—the school district’s budget woes, or the open-government white […]
11 Grown-Up Desk Accessories
Your homework: Pick up a few of these chic desk accessories to turn your under-designed office into a space fit for a grade-A student.
Best of Philly Is Not for Sale
I saw it again a few weeks ago—another one of those snarky comments that pop up on our website. This one was about our July […]
Worst of Philly 2011
WORST SPORTS COLUMN Ed Rendell in the Daily News: Brilliant idea to get the Guv to pen his thoughts—until he started preaching the obvious. WORST […]