Zack Wagner Victor Cafe undergoes a name change.      Residents around Dickenson and 13th streets in South Philly say their neighborhood today has been turned into a movie set, with lights, trucks and lots of action.      Victor’s Cafe is…

City Paper grade: B+ If you’re going to hop into that weird pool filled with acclaimed actors dabbling in late-career ass-kicking (“Don’t be shy, the water’s fine!” shouts Liam Neeson), it pays to make the dive with the right director.…

City Paper grade: C Let’s hope the marketing prodigy who suggested Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson fake like they hate each other in interviews gets a big fat raise. He/she has hedged all bets on Fifty Shades of Grey‘s inevitable box-office…

  The most romantic day of the year is upon us. The universal panic sets in for select restaurant reservations, adventurous couples purchase their 50 Shades movie tickets, and men and women scramble to find the perfect gift for their…

     All we can say is that its been a long time between drinks of water.      The news announced this morning that the Democrats have chosen Philadelphia for their 2016 nominating convention sent us to the history books looking…

I Love You, I Hate You is City Paper‘s infamous column dedicated to all things urban woe, and we’re looking for new submissions. Are you hopelessly in love with someone you saw on the El? Are you disgusted by your…

Broad Street Media has purchased Philadelphia Weekly and the South Philly Review, publisher Perry Corsetti confirmed today.  He said the sale was finalized at the end of January, and staffers were being told this morning. Broad Street Media is the publisher…

Daniel Denvir, a senior staff writer for City Paper, has accepted a job with The Atlantic’s CityLab news site and plans to move to Providence, R.I., this summer. Denvir, 32, has covered criminal justice, public education, socio-economic injustice and statewide…

City Paper grade: B+ As much as casting perma-posh Jude Law as a hardscrabble Scotsman with salt water in his veins seems like an odd reach, it’s one of many aspects of Kevin Macdonald’s claustrophobic deep-water thriller that works. Built…