By PW Staff
What to do in Philly this week.
By Peak Johnson
The game has a way of turning on its players, and within a few years Jamal Nasir’s choices started him down a 20-year path of crime and prison stints.
By Michael Alan Goldberg
You know when I sleep? From 1 a.m. to 1:15 a.m. You know what I did this morning? I bench-pressed 500 pounds for three hours. Then I wrote 12 poems. Are they any good? Fuck no. But I did it.
By Roberta Fallon
Now in its 75th year, the Whitney Biennial is still the big kahuna—the show every American artist wants to be in and every art lover wants to see. This year, the career-boosting show includes no Philadelphia artists.
By J. Cooper Robb
Directors typically bend over backward to make Shakespeare seem fresh and contemporary but director Matt Pfeiffer takes a different route.
The soda tax is stupid. Where will it stop? If people stop drinking soda, like the city says it wants, then it gets no tax money. ...
“Making bacon at home is so much easier than you might think,” says Café Estelle’s breakfast meat maestro Marshall Green. “It just takes a little bit of time.”...
Growing up Muslim in America has its temptations. Of the rules ripe for breaking, there is none less enticing than indulging in the forbidden pork. But it took just one...
More than 20 years ago, the National Pork Board started pushing the leanest, cleanest parts of its little piggies with the slogan, “Pork. The Other White Meat,”...
If you're too lazy to chew it, read on......
A Prophet becomes fascinating when it veers away from your typical prison-life misery-porn and turns into a distorted Horatio Alger story. It’s a sick joke of an immigration...
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Mark Krikorian, the Census and the American race
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Philly's Top 50 Bars
From upscale to down home, we really know...
Refugees settling in Philadelphia
Philadelphia may not seem like the ideal...
Hot Potato Cafe: 'Nightmare' No More
PW's Brian McManus reviewed the Hot Potato...
Better Than Best: Food
Once they had Japanese sushi chefs making...
Angel of the Morning Radio Show
A bubbly riot in person, Michaela Majoun’s...
Better Than Best: Philly Bars
PW names the coolest bars, bartenders, brews...
Clothes Make the Man
There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to...
Nutter and the Big Budget Gap
Mayor Nutter gives the 2011 budget address...
The 15th Line: A Play For Twitter
Is Twitter just another social-networking...
