Maria S. Young Tacos from Calle del Sabor, which will be at Made in America This weekend’s fourth annual meeting of Jay Z, Budweiser and Live Nation for Made in America — Sept. 5 and 6 along Benjamin Franklin Parkway…

Neal Santos “I think my new music, my new attitude, will be a breath of fresh air — unlike anything you’ve ever heard from me. It will inspire people.” Photos by Neal Santos Philadelphia rapper Freeway is 37 years old…

MADE FOR THESE TIMES: Andrew Lipke (left) and Bill Ricchini are playing Boot & Saddle and the Roxborough Solstice Festival, respectively, on Saturday. Bill Ricchini and Andrew Lipke have nothing to do with each other, but they do have a…

Rachael Friedman N.A. Poe (left) is joined by Mike Whiter (center) and Rich Russell outside the Phillies’ ballpark on Opening Day in support of veterans getting access to medical marijuana. Richard Tamaccio, 35, is a pothead who played an active…

Whitney Thomas HOMECOMING: Eric Roberson, Black Thought, Kenny Lattimore and more are expected to join Jeff Bradshaw (left) at the TLA on Tuesday. Philadelphia soul-jazz session trombonist Jeff Bradshaw has played on albums for Michael Jackson and Mary J. Blige,…

Ken Howard Heidi Stober and David Daniels in ‘Oscar’ at Opera Philadelphia. When Opera Philadelphia hosts the East Coast premiere of Oscar — based on the life and letters of firebrand author/gay rights avatar Oscar Wilde — it does so…

The first-gen Philly punks in Dixy Blood could’ve kept on doing the punk thing. It’s what they know best. It’s what they’re known for. Their surprising zig into country and honky-tonk comes down to one man’s obsession and his pals’…

Maria Pouchnikova On the morning after the Market at Maglio’s opened on Third Street below Pattison, it’s business as usual — a routine started when the Philly meat-men moved here in 1978 from Sixth and Dickinson. Shop owners and sandwich-makers…

Dusdin Condren If anybody deserves the good year he’s had, it’s Timothy Showalter of Strand of Oaks. Born in Indiana, now living in Philly, Showalter had previously suffered a decade marred by infidelities, house fires, addictions, suicidal thoughts and near-death…