"Audrey Claire Taichman, owner of Audrey Claire and Twenty Manning Grill, is venturing outside the realm of restaurants with her latest project COOK, a collaborative kitchen-classroom that will be used for cooking lessons, demonstrations and conversations in addition to being a cookware/pantry boutique and bookstore during the day."

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We love marketing geniuses and Peach Street Distillers' TuB Gin's plan to make five locations in Philly into a covert speakeasy tonight has earned our respect (but then immediately lost it with its trendy capitalization of the brand name). Today is the official anniversary of alcohol resuming it's circulation into

Did you cry when Bambi’s mother was shot dead by the hunter in Disney’s famous animated forest tale? Well, we didn’t because us foxes are raised in the woods and the woods are tough. We did shed a tear, however, when Bambi Gallery----the artist consignment shop created by

On a tip from a reader, we trekked out to the northwest corner of Fifth and Washington Avenue to see what trouble we could get into. What we found when we arrived was that the man who was walking away from the site as we were walking up was the owner, and

The second annual Clark Park Community Grants are now accepting proposals for projects to enhance the nine-acre park from permanent improvements to plants or signage. The grants will be awarded for one or more projects (up to $3K) and judging by last year's winning improvements including the maintenance of 30 new trees by UC Green Corps, this year should

On Wednesday, May 11, at 6pm you will have a chance to see Philadelphia's newest park, Race Street Pier, on the Delaware River. This preview event will give you a change to see the new outdoor open space from the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and the City of Philadelphia, which

We’d like to tell you that Jim and Kristina Burke----the culinary couple behind the Bella Vista restaurant James----are moving their restaurant to a larger space in order to accommodate all their accolades and awards, but, sadly, this is not the case. When we spoke with Jim about his restaurant

Alonzo Biggard photographed S. Fourth Street, looking south from the corner of South Street (no, not confusing at all, Department of Records) in 1936. The most important thing we noticed and wanted to share (besides the fact that Borden's Malted Milk "with dipper of ice cream" sounds amazing) is that

A funny thing happened on our way out of the bar last week; our neighborhood stand-by for late-night grub was missing from its usual perch at Second and Poplar Streets in Northern Liberties. Thinking we may have misplaced it like a set of car keys after a bout of drinking,

Grunley Construction Company is heading a project to renovate the exterior of the U.S. Custom House in Penn’s Landing to make the building more energy efficient. The Customs House will get new exterior lighting with energy-efficient fixtures, a high-efficiency boiler and “green” roof. (Attempts to contact Grunley Construction to deduce