Articles by nick.stropko

As I sat beneath the shade of a tent in Saunders Park July 20, slowly wilting from the midday heat, I couldn’t help but wonder…

Ah, the humble grilled cheese sandwich. Long a staple of the college diet, it’s best known for being easy to make and equally easy to…

“To Fool The Eye,” 1812 Productions’ adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s “Leocadia” by Jeffrey Hatcher, does admittedly feature visuals worthy of the play’s title. A rotating…

Johnny Brenda’s featured a fundraiser Jan. 12 for Weathervane Music, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit known for producing the Web video series “Shaking Through,” which documents “the…

A challenge that many bands are facing as of late is how to translate electronic music into an entertaining live display. While an energetic light…

Chinese food has, ironically enough, become a staple for Americans everywhere. However, the food has become an unrecognizable shadow of its true self — everything…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and state an opinion that may be entirely too controversial for an upstanding publication like The…

The Roots Picnic, a music festival curated by The Roots, returned to The Penn’s Landing Festival Pier June 2 for its fifth year. The picnic…

Franklin Square is one of the more whimsical destinations in Philadelphia. Between the carousel, the prominent fountain, and the miniature golf course featuring replicas of…

With spring fully in bloom and the weather (finally) starting to warm up, now is as good of a time as any for a date…