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How About Some Color In That Kitchen?

Stainless steel appliances and gray or black granite countertops are the center-hall Colonials of kitchen design: There’s just no escaping them, it seems, and once […]

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How Rewarding Myself With Lululemon Instead of Food Helped Me Lose 30 Pounds

Changing your body takes hard work, persistence, and dedication. Here’s one local’s story. Want to share your Transformation Story? Email ccunningham@phillymag.com Who: Gabby Patterson (@gabbygetsfit), 28, a charter […]

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A True Original in Glenside for $530K

If ever you doubted that houses are also living things, this Colonial farmhouse in Glenside should remove all doubt. This is no “revival.” It didn’t […]

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A President’s House in Rittenhouse for $2.895M

Before the University of Pennsylvania turned Horace Trumbauer’s 1907 mansion for cigar baron Otto Eisenlohr back into a mansion in 1980, its presidents lived wherever they […]

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10 Things You Need to Know Before the Broad Street Run

This post was originally published in April of 2015. Now that your training is pretty much done, it’s time to focus on race day, because a […]

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Life Time Ardmore’s Fancy New Gym and Co-Working Space Are Now Open

While the Life Time Athletic facility in Ardmore may be the region’s fourth from the chain of luxury big-box gyms, the addition of a co-working […]

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This Adventure-Loving Jersey Couple Hosted a Travel-Themed Wedding

For Amanda Agosto and Luis Grullon, an adventure-loving pair hailing from Maple Shade, New Jersey, hosting a travel-themed celebration of their love seemed like a […]

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I Say I Want to Be Healthy. Why Do I Choose to Eat Junk Anyways?

Healthy eating, at its core, is pretty simple. We’re supposed to eat a wide variety of plants — fruits and vegetables — lean proteins, and complex carbs. […]

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On the Market: Reconstructed in Chestnut Hill for $774K

The Union and the Confederacy had buried the hatchet just two years before this classic Colonial farmhouse was built in what had yet to become […]

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An American Tale

The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 27 percent of the approximately 850,000 practicing physicians and surgeons in the United States are foreign-born. I am part […]

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Girl Power

This is an extraordinary time for female athletes, especially in the United States. Serena Williams — arguably the greatest American athlete of all time — […]

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Having a Heart (Or a Kidney)

I traveled to Philadelphia in 2002 for a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) consensus conference to discuss the state of the national kidney allocation […]

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Today I Told A Woman She’s Going to Die

I told my patient today that I think she’s going to die. Not because she has any one terminal illness, but because she’s the prototype […]

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A Good Death

I was a brand-new doctor, in my first week of residency after med school, working overnight in the ICU. I called home to check on […]

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Top Doctors 2018: The Stories They Tell

A Good Death What our patients really need is honesty. By Mary Kraemer, Temple University Hospital Read more » On Mistakes Everybody makes them. For us, […]