This piece had all the makings of a straightforward feature.

Philadelphia has become a town that hosts film festivals all year round. There's QFlix, PFS Springfest, the Philadelphia Latin Film Festival. There’s Cinedelphia in the spring and BlackStar in the summer. 

Your calendar isn’t lying to you. August is almost over, the kids are going back to school and you’re realizing just how much you may have missed out on this summer.

Recently, I processed loss by staring at the ridges cut into the edges of a sliced cucumber at Kyoto Japan, a sushi restaurant in Snyder Plaza at Columbus & Snyder.

No one can tell me how the cheesesteaks from Geno's Steaks became among the most famous in South Philly, or the world, for that matter. 

Before I ate Krispy Krunchy Chicken for the first time, I had heard about it for years, though as more of a tale than an explicit recommendation.

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If you were to light up a joint to celebrate this 4/20, there is little police could do except tell you to put it out or give you a small fine payable in increments.

Take a deep dive into Philly’s parks system and you’ll likely never see the city as a concrete jungle again.At well over 2,000 acres from east to west, Fairmount Park is incontestably the crown jewel of our urban outdoors. But…