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City Life

Why Philly Needed the Lezborhood

     Listen to the audio edition here: A huge granite bar on the first floor, a pool table on the second, a bright patio […]

City Life

Citizen Of The Week: Christina Kallas-Saritsoglou, Philly AIDS Thrift

For more than 20 years, the co-founder of Philly AIDS Thrift has done good by selling people’s old, unwanted stuff — resulting in more than […]

Things to Do

This Is the Philly Bar for Seahawks Fans (or Just Patriots Haters) This Sunday

This Sunday, the Bad Bunny concert — otherwise known as Super Bowl LX — will start at 6:30 p.m. in lovely Santa Clara, California. The […]

City Life

Remembering the Other January 6th: The Great Philadelphia Blizzard

Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Thursday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]

Things to Do

The Best Fall Festivals to Check Out This Season in Philly

School’s back in session, pumpkin spice lattes have the audacity to be sold already, and fall will soon be upon us. So get your sweaters […]

Restaurants

Bob & Barbara’s Opens a Restaurant Next Door

You’re a few Specials in at Bob & Barbara’s. You forgot to eat lunch. And your stomach is growling. What do you do? Katrina and […]

City Life

Someone Give This Woman on South Street an Anti-PPA Hero Award

Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Thursday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]

Bill Murray and his friend Katrina Duva, who just so happens to be one of the operators at Bob & Barbara's, inside Bob & Barbara's on Monday
Restaurants

Yes, That Was Bill Murray Bartending at Bob & Barbara’s

I was supposed to go to Bob & Barbara’s on Monday to capture a scene for the story I was publishing on Tuesday about Bob […]

Philadelphia dive bar Bob & Barbara's and its streetery, which the city is now forcing Bob & Barbara's to remove even though the city approved the streetery
Restaurants

Inside Bob & Barbara’s Streetery Nightmare

Like so many Philadelphia bars and restaurants, iconic South Street dive bar Bob & Barbara’s set up a streetery and other outdoor seating options during […]

Life & Style

A Peek at the Upcoming Drop From the LeSportsac x Yowie Collab

Best of Philly-winning Yowie visionary Shannon Maldonado has loved LeSportsac bags since she was a teen — she appreciates the way they straddle the line […]

Steve Brasovankin at his new South Street store Pop Culture Vulture, which rents DVDs.
City Life

Break Your Streaming Addiction and Learn to Love DVDs Again

“Let me just turn down the music,” says Steve Brasovankin as he leads me into his brand new South Street store, Pop Culture Vulture. “This […]

One of the South Street trash cans on the removal list
City Life

South Street Is About to Get Even Trashier

Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Thursday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]

Life & Style

Inside Queen Village’s Chic, Colorful Yowie Hotel

Retail and design visionary Shannon Maldonado will tell you her new Yowie hotel — a 13-suite invisible-concierge concept on South Street that opened in August […]

Philadelphia's South Street, which USA Today somehow missed on its world's biggest tourist traps list
City Life

USA Today Somehow Misses South Street on Biggest Tourist Traps List

Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Friday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]

Copabanana on South Street in Philadelphia
City Life

Copabanana South Street Declares Bankruptcy Yet Again

Check phillymag.com each morning for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly Mag reporters (or […]