These days, former nightlife star and '70s trans icon Rachel Billebault, once known around the world as Harlow, is known by her neighbors in the Greater Northeast as a sweet — and still quite beautiful — senior lady who mostly keeps to herself. The only thing to indicate her former high-style life is her insistence on maintaining it. “I’m always the best-dressed woman at the Acme,” she says. Here, Philadelphia writers Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez explain why they’re writing a biography on

The Atwater Kent Collection’s holiday potluck in November involved jello salads, ham and pineapple spreads, and frankfurter creole. The undisputed star of the potluck? Horn and Hardart’s Cardinal Salad — a gelatinous bundt with beets, grated onion, and celery. Some offices host cookie swaps or catered lunches during the holidays. At Atwater Kent, a repository of roughly 130,000 objects related to Philadelphia history that is managed by Drexel University, staffers threw a potluck in which every d

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