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Bourbon Blue

More than 20 years ago, Caf� Nola opened on colorful South Street. It immediately became a hit with the critics and the public. It was always Mardi Gras at Caf� Nola. Owners Bill Curry...

Caught in the web again

It has everything the first one had: a perfectly cast title character in Tobey Maguire, a believable love story and mind-bending special effects. It's obvious from the opening credits that Spider-Man 2 is yet another...

Silent alarm?

After feeling her way along a smoke-filled corridor, Karen Pasquerello bounded downstairs to her kitchen and found her coffeemaker ablaze. Flames climbed her kitchen walls on the 900 block of Federal Street and threatened...

Tour de course

"There is a communion of more than bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk," wrote M.F.K. Fisher. I thought about the gastronomy writer's marvelous musing during lunch on a...

Into her groove

When Dawn Noel Pignuola was 5 years old, she danced around her living room on the 1500 block of Porter Street to Madonna tunes. All that practice has paid off bigtime....

No move’s a good move

Regional Produce Terminal merchants finally made up their minds about whether to stay in Philadelphia or pack up and move to Camden. And, much to the satisfaction of local officials, they decided...

Adaptation of note

The Notebook PG-13 Starting tomorrow at area theaters Three reels out of four Nick Cassavetes apparently learned quite a bit from his late father, and most notably how to extract the truth from...

Dialogue in sentences

For those of us on the outside, prison dramas rarely fail to hold us captive. The clang of metal bars, the powder-keg emotion, the numbing routine and the salty language can get...

Porsche power

How did I get to my ripe old age without ever driving a 356 Porsche? I've admired the lovely upside-down bathtub shape for decades, but only from afar. Nobody ever offered...

Eulogy Belgian Tavern

Eulogy Belgian Tavern 136 Chestnut St. 215-413-1918 Credit cards accepted Bathroom up a flight of stairs www.eulogybar.com Belgium invented one of America's favorite side dishes -- French fries. Local Belgian restaurants, most notably...
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