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Ask Dr. Monti: How Can We Lose Weight as a Couple?

Question: My partner and I are both overweight. I would love for us to get healthy together, but I don’t know how to get started. […]

Be Well Philly

Trouble for Toning Shoes

A special shoe isn’t enough to give you a perfectly round rear end? Why I am not surprised? New Balance is about to get a […]

City Life

Are You With the Band?

If Don Draper’s taught the Scoop anything about advertising it’s this: It’s tough to know the difference between impressive and annoying. So how to categorize […]

City Life

Cartoon Brett Mandel Patronizes Cartoon Michael Nutter

There is no one in this city who cares more about Philadelphia’s budget than impassioned tax reformer Brett Mandel. While the former candidate for city […]

Restaurants

Korean Fried Chicken Wings at Meritage

Meritage was so pleased that its Korean fried chicken and Korean tacos made our 2010 – The Menu that they’ve put Korean fried chicken wings […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Bride-to-be Blogger Jennifer: Now for the “Lawfully Wedded” Part

After quite the search, Anthony and I finally met with our first officiant, and I am still feeling a certain amount of pressure to choose […]

City Life

Acme Closing Five Area Stores

Today in Important Journalistic Analysis: The DN has readers weigh in on the possible demise of Tastykake—example: “Nowhere near as good as they used to […]

Restaurants

Tonight

Since we were just talking about Fork & Barrel earlier, how about a quick jaunt to East Falls? Upstairs Bells’ Best Brown is on cask […]

Be Well Philly

Just Opened: Got Pole?

Platinum Pole Dance Studio is closing its Germantown Avenue location and opening a new studio, Got Pole?, at 3rd and South Street. Just opened this […]

City Life

Temple Football Player To Enter NFL Draft

This afternoon, Temple University junior defensive tackle Muhammad Wilkerson announced (via Twitter!) that he’ll be leaving the University early and entering the NFL Draft. This […]

City Life

Tastykake Teeters

The Delco Times reports that, after a wave of setbacks—namely, the move to South Philly hasn’t saved as much money as expected—the 97-year-old Philly institution […]

City Life

Chris Christie’s A Family Man

As you probably know, NJ Guv Chris Christie took some heat for flying down to Disney with his family during the holidays and not cutting […]

City Life

Meatballs, Pizza and a Great New Do

Last night I was heading into the 12th Street Gym and saw something I don’t normally see there: meatballs. No, I’m not talking about all […]

Be Well Philly

Grocery Shopping Secrets

This video from Daily Candy has some great tips from Dr. Frank Lipman on shopping smartly at the grocery store. Some are well known—buy grass-fed […]

Restaurants

Fun with Press Releases: That Not-So-Fresh-Preparing-a-Meal-Feeling

The old Foobooz/Philly Mag inbox is inundated with press releases on a daily basis—some full of very useful information, some full of totally useless information […]