Stephanie Farr

1 week ago | timesdaily.com | Stephanie Farr

As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and over a royal purple carpet featuring Freemasonry’s iconic Square-and-Compasses symbol, I thought: “What’s next? A pyramid with the disembodied Eye of Providence floating on top?”kAmp=2D[ :E H2D ;FDE E96 7C@?E 56D<[ 3FE E92E H2D 8@@5 E@@ D:?46 >J 9FD32?5 2?5 x H6C6 E96C6 E@ 4C@DD 2 E@FC @7 E96 E6>A=6 @77 @FC !9:==J 3F4<6E =:DE]k^AmkAm%96C6’D ?@ >:DE2<:?8 H96C6 J@F 2C6 2D D@@?

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Meet Adam Barrist, a personal injury lawyer who had a private, British-themed speakeasy installed in his Media office this year.

3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Sometimes when I walk the streets of Old City, I imagine the people of colonial times who walked those roads before me, before Philadelphia was Philly and before this nation secured its liberty and identity. I mostly think about the smells folks had to endure before indoor plumbing, but I also wonder how those men and women traversed the cobblestone streets in their heeled shoes when I look like a wombat in flip-flips doing it in sneakers.

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Whenever I went to an arcade as a kid the first thing I ran to was a sit-down racing game called Cruis’n USA, a game so slick and so quick it didn’t have time for all of the letters in “Cruising.” I felt cool playing that game, where I could pick my own car and track. Not Speed Racer cool, but close.

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

The city’s Parks & Recreation Department is seeking out-of-this world ideas for potential businesses that could bring life — extraterrestrial or otherwise — back to the circular building at LOVE Park known as the “flying saucer.” Faced with the question: “What would you do with the Saucer if the sky was the limit?” Philadelphians on social media this week have suggested everything from turning it into a museum (one devoted to meats and cheeses and/or skateboarding) to making it into an actual...