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Wedding: How to: It’s a Nice Day for a Green Wedding

Celebrate your nuptials in eco-chic Philly style We never said we were planning a green wedding — it just happened that way,” says recent Philadelphia […]

Restaurants

Tonight

We’ve got odds and ends for you tonight at Monk’s Cafe. They’ve cleaned out the beer cellar and are selling all sorts of odd and […]

Restaurants

Finally a Reason to Go to the Gallery?

Drew Lazor reports over at the Clog that Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill has opened in the Gallery. Beef patties and jerk chicken, oh […]

Restaurants

Pork Wings At Los Caballitos

Philadining had our eyes as wide as saucers as he described “the best bar snack in the city,” pork wings at Cantina Los Caballitos. As […]

City Life

Good Life: City Planter

Recommendations for weather-hardy plantings from Mary Costello and Peter Smith of City Planter in Northern Liberties. LARGER PLANTS FOR LARGER POTS Contorted witch hazel (crazy […]

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Legends: Bernie Parent Has a Secret

It’s a miserable day at the Schooner Island Marina, just over the bridge in Wildwood. A late-October nor’easter is rocking all of the boats docked […]

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Society: A Dangerous Book for Girls

My husband Doug and I were watching the marching band perform at our son’s high-school football game when I noticed something. There on the field […]

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Coupling: Wedding Belle Blues

The trouble started almost immediately after we got engaged. I’ll spare you the details of the proposal since, as it turns out, there are two […]

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Home: My New Best Friend: Heavenly Hostess

I LOVE HAVING houseguests. I’ve hosted all kinds in all kinds of circumstances. When I lived in a studio apartment, an Academy Award-nominated pal happily […]

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The Good Generation

The Lord isn’t the only one who works in mysterious ways. So do rock stars. One day a couple of years ago, Sister Mary Scullion […]

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And Now a Word From Our Fund-Raiser

If there’s one place where a newcomer to Philadelphia can get a frightening dose of reality, it’s the airport. Last winter, when Kimmel Center CEO […]

Restaurants

One More Reason To Love CBP

$6.75 for a beer may not seem like a great deal but it turns out that price makes Citizens Bank Park the cheapest in the […]

City Life

Power: Manage This

It was 1:20 a.m. on February 3rd, 2003, when the ring of the telephone shattered my sleep. “It’s for you,” my wife said as she […]

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Loco Parentis: Beyond Words

When she was four, my daughter Marcy’s favorite TV show was I Love Lucy. While other kids were wriggling to Barney’s theme song, Marcy was […]

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The Godfather’s Daughter

In the picture, she is six years old, wearing a ruffled bathing suit, an inner tube wrapped around her waist, her tiny toes firmly planted […]