If science teacher Bill Seng is sitting in his living room, watching TV, and happens upon a great program on robots on PBS, he grabs […]
The following is an excerpt from Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl, available here. Quoit Club Punch The thirty members of the […]
When we get stumped, we turn to master bridal consultant, owner of Philly’s The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants and wedding etiquette guru extraordinaire, Mark […]
On Wednesday night, I hit the town for a fun night of party-hopping. After hanging out at the Holiday Inn Express’s client appreciation party, I […]
If you paid any attention to television in the late ’80s or mid-’90s, producer/director Marshall Herskovitz either gazed deep into your soul (thirtysomething; My So-Called […]
Craft-brew lovers have had a rich run in Philadelphia lately. From the runaway success of Philly Beer Week to the mounting competition among carryout stores […]
Sorry, University City. Princeton — with its lofty trees, small-town boutiques, and whiffs of esteemed former residents Albert Einstein and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the […]
When Albanian-born beauty Bela Shehu closed her eponymous shop on 13th Street and disappeared from the pages of Lucky, she left traces of her work […]
Comfort food: Grilled cheese. Ethnic restaurant preference: Greek or Mediterranean. Where you get that around here: There’s not one place I can think of. Domino’s, […]
Tiffany Gabbay was shocked. She’d just opened her estimate from the company that rents carnival-style vending carts for kids’ birthday parties. Gabbay was thinking small, […]
When I travel and tell people where I’m from, they often want to know what Philadelphia is like — they’ve heard things. I tell them […]
It seems a perfect place for a margherita pie fresh from the brick oven, this slender little dark-wood hideaway just off -Rittenhouse Square. Alas, the […]
Forget those ho-hum microwaveable meals in your grocer’s freezer. At Philly restaurants, potpies are good eats. Take Standard Tap’s chicken pie (pictured), a year-round staple […]
Twig lamps, red-and-white-checkered chairs, exposed beams and log piles make the old Inn Flight feel more cabin-in-the-woods than across-the-street-from-a-hospital. Such rustic details put an eater […]
Where can you find superb chicken-liver mousse, served with crisp, buttery toast points? At a beer-focused pub in Fishtown, that’s where. It’s definitely a tavern […]
