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Domestic Bliss: Details on Garces’ New Menu

The JG Domestic menu has finally emerged from the secret vault where Jose Garces was storing it. (In a gilded lock box, obvs.) Included among descriptions of the all-domestically-sourced fare is a Farmers List featuring quite a few local notables, including Branch Creek Farm, Mill Creek Farm, Keswick Creamery and Griggstown Quail Farm. And how bout

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The Night Kitchen Cometh: NW Bakery Expands

As we told you in this month’s Grid, Night Kitchen Bakery has expanded. City Paper‘s Meal Ticket has pics of the new space, and a link to the new cafe menu. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Chestnut Hill sweet shop—legend has it that, as a young child, I threw

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November Letters

Swim FanThanks so much for the Dispatch you printed in the September issue of Grid (“The River Wild”). Five years ago, I lived for a while in Heidelberg, Germany, and was able to swim in natural waters pretty often.

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Intersections: Brake Dance

Viridity Energy, local pioneers of smart grid technology (featured in Grid’s August Energy Issue), have announced an exciting partnership with SEPTA. The city’s trains already employ regenerative breaking, generating electricity when they come to a stop.

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Intersections: Fair Play

The Philadelphia Center for Architecture and the Ed Bacon Foundation have launched their Fifth Annual Ed Bacon Student Competition. This year’s theme—“Designing for the Fair of the Future”—asks local and international college students to transport themselves to the year 2026, designing a venue for the World’s Fair celebration, held on the occasion of America’s 250th

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Intersections: Sunny Days

By Mark Syvertson The Bourse at Independence Mall recently installed a 43-kilowatt solar array on its roof, becoming one of the first historic buildings in the city to employ photovoltaics. Due to the Bourse’s landmark status, there were concerns about preserving the integrity of the structure. SolarDock, a green energy company from Wilmington, DE, installed

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Spread the Wealth

After graduating from NYU’s Stern School of Business, Marina Levtov took a job with IBM. Her first client was a tobacco company. “My first day of work, I walked onto the site and people are smoking, in the office,” she recalls.

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Universal Appeal

Mt. Airy’s Food for All Market, a café and artisanal grocery opened in early October and catering to those with food sensitivities, was originally inspired by owner Amy Kunkle’s three small children—they all suffer from food allergies.

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Night Watch

Night Kitchen Bakery, a Germantown Avenue staple dedicated to producing delicious cakes and pastries in an environmentally responsible manner, is expanding.

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Local Business: Into the Woods

Throughout Philadelphia, crumbling factories recall a faded past. But in the wooden beams that once held them up—century-old timber taken from vanished virgin forests—Steve Ebner sees beauty, opportunity and a chance at renewal. “You can’t get better than this,” he says, gesturing toward the massive stacks of reclaimed wood that make up the stock of

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