Illustrations by Michele Melcher See Also: People Who Died — Part 1  |  People Who Died — Part 3 Chef Fritz Blank It seems unlikely that a Pennsauken-bred microbiologist of German heritage would be the right person to usher in…

Illustrations by Michele Melcher See Also: People Who Died — Part 2  |  People Who Died — Part 3 LGBT activist Gloria Casarez Gloria Casarez fought hard for LGBT rights, but not simply because she was a lesbian. In college,…

Ryan Scott The Big Philly Beerfest | Fri.-Sat., Jan. 9-10, 7:30 p.m. $45-$55 Can’t wait until June to get your beerfest on? We’ve got you covered. The first annual Big Philly Beerfest is taking over the Convention Center with two…

Only Lovers Left Alive Night Crawler Locke Blue Ruin A Most Wanted Man The Babadook First features don’t come any more fully realized than Jennifer Kent’s debut, a morbid children’s fable that doubles as an essay on single motherhood and…

1. The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian) That one guy called it “beer commercial rock,” but listen: As much as Philadelphia loves its meathead guitar music, this third album by The War on Drugs is not…

City Paper grade: A How does a socially awkward kid from Baltimore end up raging against Muammar Gaddafi’s death squads in Libya? That’s the question at the core of Marshall Curry’s unexpected documentary, which traces American citizen Matthew VanDyke’s inductions…

City Paper and Axis Philly evaluated food safety and hygiene in Philly’s 3,800n restaurants. The evaluations in this database reflect our opinion, based on publicly available Health Department inspection reports of city restaurants over the last five years. The city…

This analysis of food safety and hygiene in Philadelphia restaurants is based on our evaluation of public records of more than 18,000 inspections conducted by the city’s Health Department over the last five years. The department uses a form that…

A sampler: CP points for 20 popular restaurants Restaurant | Stars | Av. Points Citywide Average | ??? | 27 Alla Spina | ???? | 12 Amada | ??? | 35 Amis | ???? | 7 Barbuzzo | ??? |…