The Guns N’ Roses lyric “take me down to Paradise City” may not traditionally refer to Philadelphia, but next week it will certainly be applicable.
The city has always been known for its dedication to the arts – Broad Street, for example, lives up to its name as the Avenue of the Arts, with numerous theaters, […]

There is a never-ending list of restaurants that specialize in either breakfast or dinner, but finding a unique lunch experience can be difficult. The solution to some midday meal problems  may lay in Chinatown, where hungry lunch-goers can partake in the “dim sum” tradition.
Dim sum is an ancient Chinese style of dining. Its name means […]

A young man in his early twenties enters the store looking for a used guitar, but instead finds a perfectly good lamp that reminds him of his childhood. When the asking cost is a little steeper than expected, the man at the register lets him walk away with his treasure at half price. That’s just […]

Walking into the office of Bryan Poerner, you will see prepackaged Track+Field bags stacked high on shelves, waiting to be shipped out across the country. Others sit patiently, waiting to be sold in the store below.
It may be each bag’s multicolored patterns that make them so desirable, or it could be Poerner’s high energy and […]