If you're gluten-free in Philly, you probably already know that your options have been growing in recent years. One of the newest offerings is possibly one of the best. Toté Bakery & Store set up shop in the Italian Market about 3 months ago, and it's already a well-patronized addition

The north side of the 1600 block of Sansom Street has a fascinating recent history.

On the eastern side of the block, the former American Patriots Building, which nearly became a Hampton Inn in the late 1990's, is home to Oakwood Apartments. This building offers both corporate housing and market-rate rental

A reader asked us about the large, surprisingly vacant lot adjacent to Clark Park on Baltimore Ave., and we set out to investigate. What we found was disappointing, though not altogether surprising.

4224-26 Baltimore Ave. is a huge lot on the southwest corner of 43rd & Baltimore, directly to the east

Since Clybourne Park covers gentrification and issues surrounding residential rehabs, we're asking readers to submit a photo of the worst rehab they can find in Philadelphia. We'll accept either a tasteless rehab or an unfortunate new construction building. Something that doesn't fit in with its surroundings, or the rest of the

We're a cultured bunch here at Naked Philly, and recently had the chance to catch a performance of Clybourne Park at the Arden Theater. The play, written by Bruce Norris and recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, examines a transforming neighborhood in both 1959 and 2009.

Act One describes the

Metropolitan Bakery's neighbor is reluctantly moving out of its Rittenhouse address, a move that may have been necessitated by the bakery's desire to expand. Avanda Flower Shop, at 264 S. 19th St. and a half a block from the square, is closing up shop and moving to 16th & Pine.

On the narrow, curiously numbered 400 block of Memphis St., Triangle Property Partners has proposed five new homes to replace a one story, red brick, triangularly shaped building. Though this block is a little tough to find if you don't know where it is (especially because the houses on the

After staring at a vacant, overgrown lot behind their home in West Philadelphia for a few years, a couple purchased the parcel and turned it into an urban farm through the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest Grower’s Alliance Program, which provides supplies for homeowners interested in running their own urban farm.

Yesterday,

Smack dab in the middle of the revival of North Broad Street, you can easily spot Congregation Rodeph Shalom, located at 615 N. Broad St., pretty much across the street from the newly redeveloped 600 N. Broad Street. The congregation has made this address its home since 1871, and has

Over the summer, we told you about the newest addition to the University City hospitality scene, a new Homewood Suites hotel. Located at 4109 Walnut St., this new hotel will include 136 suites, which will include kitchenettes. One of the ideas behind the idea of building this hotel is to provide extended-stay