Home design: The personal style

Not long ago, most people were satisfied if their homes were simply beautiful, functional and comfortable. Today every homeowner wants to make a personal statement too. But discovering the “real you” is no simple task. A few suggestions from a home designer.

Caroline Dunlop Millett

Apr 29, 2008 · Essays · 7 minute read

Dining bargains

At these three restaurants, you leave contented but neither stuffed nor strapped.

Lynn Hoffman

Apr 12, 2008 · Essays · 5 minute read

Philadelphia Flower Show

The mobs, themes and commercial promotions at the Philadelphia Flower Show were anything but relaxing. The flower arrangements themselves were anything but relaxing, too.

Philadelphia Flower Show. March 1-8, 2008 at Pennsylvania Convention Center, 13th and Arch Sts. (215) 988-8800 or
www.theflowershow.com.

Be'eri Moalem

Apr 08, 2008 · Essays · 3 minute read

The life of a bugout

I left my last full-time job ten years ago. I make little money and rarely buy anything. And here’s the scary part for you: I’m happy, and I’m not alone.

Rob Laymon

Apr 05, 2008 · Essays · 5 minute read

Funding for the arts (reply)

Armen Pandola proposes a “new play contest” financed by a one-dollar surcharge tacked on to the price of Philadelphia hotel rooms. I wish that Pandola, and everyone who supports similar schemes, would stop treating local industries, business owners and consumers as one more resource to plunder in support of the arts.

Jim Rutter

Mar 25, 2008 · Essays · 4 minute read

"Philadelphia Laureates': A proposal

How do we promote Philadelphia as a major arts center? How about one big symbolic, quixotic gesture? How about creating Philadelphia's Office of Laureates?

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 25, 2008 · Essays · 4 minute read

City Hall reconsidered

The Gilded Age died almost before its greatest extravagance was completed in 1901. Philadelphia’s City Hall has embarrassed Philadelphians ever since. Has the time come, finally, to appreciate it?

City Hall. Tours of the tower run every 15 minutes between 9:30 a.m and 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. (215) 686-2840 or click here.

Be'eri Moalem

Mar 23, 2008 · Essays · 7 minute read

Hitler's snack bar

Travel notes from all over:
Welcome to Hitler’s Bavarian snack bar

The Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden is now a tourist attraction where nobody laughs at the ridiculousness of the “Eva Braun Tearoom.” And I tried to work up my indignation. Really I did.

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 15, 2008 · Essays · 5 minute read

Hitler's snack bar

The Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden is now a tourist attraction where nobody laughs at the ridiculousness of the “Eva Braun Tearoom.” I tried to work up my indignation. Really I did.

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 15, 2008 · Essays · 5 minute read

The home as art

Americans spend fortunes on their homes. Why, then, do so many affluent homes look as if they were lifted from a magazine spread or a Ralph Lauren catalogue? Why not think of our homes as artistic expressions of ourselves?

Caroline Dunlop Millett

Mar 08, 2008 · Essays · 6 minute read