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Power: The Next Howard Dean?

“I don’t believe Philadelphians are getting their money’s worth,” Knox offers, sitting in his office. “Nobody pays a higher wage tax than we do.” Population […]

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Couplings: The Angelina Problem

 Despite our Puritan roots, our culture applauds a certain amount of sexual liberalism. Or at least the appearance thereof. For instance: We love it when […]

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Exit Interview: Andrea Mitchell

We tried. We honestly tried to uphold a more intellectually refined discourse in honor of NBC News correspondent and former KYW reporter Andrea Mitchell, whose […]

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Contrarian: Boys ‘R Us, Inc.

Say what you will about sleaze and self-dealing in corporate America, I doubt there was ever a company like the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where the […]

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Poker Prodigy

Because minors are barred from online casinos, many of Jordan’s poker accounts have been in Pagona’s name. While he works the lucrative graveyard shift, she […]

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Features: Sweet City: Our Favorite Cookie

To find our favorite cookie, we asked more than 350 pastry chefs and bakers to send us samples of their favorites. We were in search […]

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Sweet City: Best Bakeries

A hazelnut gâteau, Chantilly cream puffs — or even straightforward from-scratch brownies — can intimidate the most accomplished home cook. But the region’s ever-expanding assortment […]

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Sweet City: Classic Confections

Doughnuts   These heartier versions of hole-less doughnuts get their sweetness from butterscotch sauce and creamy gelato. “I added cold ice cream to warm doughnuts, because […]

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All the Vince That’s Fit to Print

IN ANOTHER ERA, perhaps the bad old days when the Annenbergs almost ran it into the ground, the Inquirer might have treated Fumo as a […]

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The Passion of T. O.

I met L.C. “Tit” Russell at his home, sitting on that same sofa. Behind him a copy of Terrell’s old 49ers jersey hung framed on […]