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Property’s Morning Obsession: Those Planks, Those Bricks

Each morning we start the day with Property’s Morning Obsession—anything from staging to woodwork to the fragment of a building.

Birds 24/7

Eagles Wake-Up Call: Birds Adding Another QB?

The Eagles could be close to adding Tulsa product G.J. Kinne to their roster.

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Property

Can Zillow.com Get a Kid Into Kindergarten?

According to Town and Country, telling a private school how rich you are and how much you’ll donate if your child is admitted is a no-no. But private schools would prefer parents to be wealthy, of course, so they’ll find your home on Zillow.com.

Restaurants

Marc Vetri Serves Up Horse Meat On the Huffington Post

Last week, Marc Vetri told us that he’d love to serve horse meat, adding, “Seriously, who decided what animals to eat and not to eat? […]

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Property

Breaking: Oprah’s Home Makeover Takes Her From Stone to Oak

Oprah’s home doesn’t represent the real Oprah, so she’s revamping the manse she calls “my own private Tara.” Three homes in Philly that can be Oprah-fied as well.

Philadelphia Wedding

Bride-to-be Blogger Kristy: Hammering Out the Details: Menu Selected, Dress Fitted, Wedding Hair Style Decided!

Finally this week, we got down to some details! It’s my professional and personal preference: I love the knitty gritty details. It was a wedding-packed […]

City Life

Southern Spring Travel: Nashville

I’d been in Nashville for all of 15 seconds when I heard it: the familiar pluck of acoustic guitar strings accompanying a man’s voice, crooning […]

City Life

Southern Spring Travel: New Orleans

On Friday afternoon, I rode in from the airport with the slowest cabdriver in the entire city of New Orleans. He was an old-timer, with […]

City Life

Southern Spring Travel: Charleston

It hit me, as I strolled through Charleston’s gas-lit and cobblestoned French Quarter, that everything I loved about this unapologetically historic city was something I […]

City Life

Southern Spring Travel: Savannah

There weren’t many other visitors meandering through Savannah’s downtown cemetery as I tentatively began to wind my way along the tombstones. The city has a […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Hide a Video Camera in Your Bouquet & 7 Other Cool Techy Tools To Use At Your Wedding

Can you even imagine what the footage would be like if you were to hide an itty bitty video camera inside your bridal bouquet? Certainly […]

City Life

Tonight: William Way Caps Off Unique Fundraising Campaign with Margaritas

This month, William Way Community Center (WWCC) has been running “5 Dollar February,” a fundraising campaign to show how even the smallest donations work wonders […]

Birds 24/7

Twitter Mailbag: On Revis, Foles And the No. 4 Pick

Every Thursday we select a few of your Twitter questions and provide the long-form answers they deserve. For a chance to have your question published on Birds 24/7, send it to @Tim_McManus.

Restaurants

Bourbon, Barrels and Bugs At Iron Hill This Weekend

Ew, bugs in my beer? Why would I want to put bugs in my beer? I nearly had to be resuscitated when I choked down […]

Restaurants

The Washington Post Sports Wood Over Philly Barbecue

Okay, so not really. Really, it was just a one-line mention in a much larger story about the new (?) prevalence of wood-fired BBQ on […]