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Last week, a City Council committee held a hearing on Philadelphia2035, the City Planning Commission effort to update Philly’s land-use and zoning...
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Is Skinny Puppy's new record worth buying even if you're not Canadian?
The thing about Canadians is that they’re unpredictable. Sure, Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion and Shania Twain are Canadian, but so are Leonard...
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Restaurants opening, closing and pending.
A Northern European restaurant comes to East Passyunk, a joint doughnut/salad stall arrives at Reading Terminal and more.
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City Paper's First Friday hitlist
If you’re a sixth-grader at heart, like me, your eye will immediately wander to one part of the exhibit “Woman Inherits the Earth”: the firecrotch.
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A.D. Amorosi on the news, nightlife and bitchiness beats
For a couple weeks now, I’ve been Ice-packing about what Philly’s top-notch theater lasses will be up to in the immediate future. Deborah...
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Julie Crist knows a thing or two about the school-cafeteria staple.
“Our faculty... are recognized as some of the most esteemed thought-leaders in their industries,” boasts the slogan above Julie Crist’s...
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Once thought to be Hershey, Pa.’s answer to The Smiths, The Ocean Blue rocks once again.
For a band that was never a household name, with no gold records, a peak only in the bottom quarter of the Billboard 200 and just a handful of alt-rock...
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Justin Bauer makes our hearts melt.
Toward the end of Max Barry’s Lexicon (June 18, Penguin Press), Virginia Woolf describes love to William Butler Yeats: “I’m not sure...
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Julia West on Philly's sartorial happenings.
It’s time, men, to suit up. Suitsupply has made the long journey from Amsterdam to Philly, and is settling in nicely at a corner location in Rittenhouse...
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Like all other music lovers, fans of the classical genre are prone to the rather silly game of ranking performers and composers. Even the haughty New...
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When news breaks, we make jokes.
Strange things are happening in New Jersey....
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The week in eats
Resurrection Ale House tempts us with an all-scrapple menu and barrel-aged brews, the city's food trucks compete for an esteemed Vendy Award and more!
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