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Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: Winter Bounty

This week marks my last delivery of the CSA season. And I bet, like me, many of you are about to go through serious CSA […]

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Top 5 Shops for Cool Clocks and Watches

After enduring a week of World-Series-induced sleep deprivation, it seems Daylight Savings couldn’t come at a better time. All the focus on turning back clocks […]

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Is This the Only Restaurant in Center City Serving Food Today?

We hear that restaurants and bars within whooping distance of Broad Street have battened down their kitchens, stashed the glassware, and broken out the plastic […]

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What To Drink This Weekend: White Meritage Cosentino “The Novelist”

Many people have heard of Meritage wines — American blended wines modeled after the premium wines of the Bordeaux region of France — but few […]

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Web Original: Street Style: Week 9: Cold-Weather Cool

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Ticket Alert: Ray Davies and the Fake Gn’R

To avoid scalpers and Craigslist scams, consult this handy guide to the shows soon to go on sale… My sister-in-law just picked the name "Lola" […]

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Health: Web Original: A New Way to Whittle Your Waist

Some of us stroll while others strut, but if you’re looking to pump up the calorie burn of your regular walks, try Nordic walking. Developed […]

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Web Original: Style Report: KOP and Nordstrom Have Some Out-of-the-Box Events; Philly Gets a Mole; Smak Goes Domestic

Smak Parlour, that pink shrine to pretty-punk, where most goods are designed by the owners Katie and Abby, has added an adorable home section to […]

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Web Original: Dining Dictionary: Eating Your Words

Today’s word of the meal: “wildcrafted,” as in “hen of the woods mushrooms, wildcrafted by Patrick Murphy.” Spotted last week in the Fair Food Farmstand […]

Restaurants

Get Your Taco America

Don’t forget that from 2 to 6pm today Taco Bell owes you a taco. Taco Bell: Steal A Base, Steal A Taco [MLB.com] Taco Bell […]

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Shopping: Grand Openings

DiEva Designs  A modern 18,000-square-foot addition to this old-school South Jersey furniture showroom has made room for some very new-school shopping: namely, sleek leather couches, […]

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Local Spotlight: Print Liberation

Since 1999, Jamie Dillon and Nick Paparone have been turning out bold, catchy phrases — printed on just about anything — out of a tiny, […]

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Kitchen Mission: Quick Chicken

Sent from the what’s-for-dinner gods, store-bought rotisserie chicken answers my quick-meal prayers. It’s easy, healthy, flavorful and not much more expensive than buying the uncooked […]

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A Boy’s Life: Mother Knows Best

I AM IN the middle of trying to put up the second strip of wallpaper in my daughter’s room, wrestling with it the way I […]

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Home: My New Best Friend: Gifted!

There’s a reason why my friends call me, I swear, “Gifty McGifty.” I absolutely love giving gifts. For Father’s Day, I got my husband the […]