Photo courtesy of Peggy Baud-Woolsey by Emily Kovach If you’re looking for a place to celebrate a happy birthday, or just a happy hour, here are some of our favorite cocktail spots in the city. Get comfy at the bar and get up close and personal with a coupe glass or two. 1 Tippling Place 2006
MorePhoto courtesy of Coeur by Emily Kovach These small-plate-focused experiences aren’t supporting acts—they’re the main event. One of the best ways to experience a restaurant is, oddly enough, to not sit at a table and delve intothe full menu. Drinks and a few snacks at the bar let you soak up the atmosphere and sample the
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Photo courtesy of Tired Hands Brew Cafe by Emily Kovach You’ll never find a Sysco truck unloading produce into the kitchens of these restaurants—their goal is to keep it local, all year round. The farm-to-table trend certainly had its moment, and in some scenes that moment may have passed. But in our neighborhoods, there is
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Photo courtesy of V Street by Emily Kovach We have many culinary treasures to take pride in, but one of the greatest is the fact that no vegan, vegetarian or health conscious diner will go hungry on our watch. But, to echo omnivorous local food enthusiasts who are reminding the world that Philly is about more
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Photo courtesy of Barbuzzo by Emily Kovach A few bites of a well-composed, balanced, exciting dessert is how all dinners should end.Sadly, lots of restaurants phone in an obligatory dessert menu with a smattering of mundane items that make it all too easy to say, “No, really, I shouldn’t.” We want desserts whose siren song
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Illustration by Corey Schumann Water, Water Everywhere by Jerry Silberman Question: How can I reduce my personal water consumption to protect the environment? The Right Question: How can I reduce my energy consumption to protect fresh water? Kayaking down the Schuylkill a couple of weeks ago, in the zone of cool air just above the
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Photo courtesy of Plate 3 Photography Into the Woods by Heather Shayne Blakeslee At the Fringe Festival two years ago, Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre offered audiences an abstract performance piece that retold the story of Little Red Riding Hood via a duet with dancer Kate Abernathy and cellist Rachel Icenogle. Wire’s artistic director
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Photo courtesy of Lars Jan Alone, Together interview by Heather Shayne Blakeslee In “Paradise Lost,” John Milton’s epic poem about the fall of man, he envisions the mythical city of Pandæmonium as the capital of hell, a mansion built on a lake of fire by the demon Mulciber. For Philadelphia choreographer and dancer Nichole Canuso,
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Photo courtesy of Bradley’s Bucks Rebirth of the Jungle by Heather Shayne Blakeslee Bradley’s Bucks—an all-male dance troupe that has been offering up semiregular performances this past year at bar and burlesque hub Franky Bradley’s—makes its Fringe Festival debut with “Jungle.” The production will explore the rebirth of the jungle in a post-apocalyptic ecosystem where—after
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Photo by Jared Gruenwald Big Brother or Big Ag? by Justin Klugh Dripping with sweat at North Philadelphia urban farm Life Do Grow, Mike Durkin is mapping out staging areas for talking pigs. “I call over here!” says one of his actors, racing to a hammock in the shade. Unlike actual pigs, who don’t sweat
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