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What Makes a Good Sports Bar?

We’ve been meandering past the Bellevue in the late afternoons recently where we’ve been witnessing an interesting promotion. It involves attractive girls clad in form-fitting […]

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Home: The Art of Craft

In 1912, architect William L. Price designed a grand house for the crest of Chestnut Hill. Outside, the house was sand-colored pebbledash. Inside, it was […]

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The Overture

WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH HAD JUST SAID YES. IT happened in Munich over lunch at a restaurant above an open-air market a few blocks from the Vier […]

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Home: Domain: Next: The Light Aquatic

With Victorian curves and glassy luster, artist Adam Wallacavage’s plaster chandelier doesn’t immediately register as an … octopus. But take a second look, and there […]

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Home: Editor’s Note

Although I’m a word person by trade, photo shoots are my favorite part of my job. I like them because they’re exciting: fast-paced and artful, […]

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Band on the Run

ON THE 7TH of this month, go down to Dave and Buster’s, Philadelphia’s adult romper room on the Delaware, and you’ll see a private party […]

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Norman Carol Bows Out

IT WASN’T SUPPOSED to end so soon for the concertmaster. And it wasn’t supposed to end like this — his forced-farewell season marred by the […]

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Features: The Unfinished Symphony

BOB HOLMES RAISED the binoculars to his eyes. He had been a college music teacher for two decades and, after years of living in North […]

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Home: Domain: Before + After: Beach Boys

Who needs fairy godparents when you’ve got fairy-tale-worthy grandparents? To turn the third floor of their 1930s Ventnor Avenue summer home into a sleepover paradise […]

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The Arts: The Fractious Philadelphians

SWEEPING WESTWARD across Europe this past May, the Philadelphia Orchestra played with as much virtuosity as anyone could recall. From Warsaw to Amsterdam to Madrid, […]

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Home: Domain: Shopping: Brilliant Encores

The Hill Company This sunny suburban sister of Chestnut Hill’s classic outdoor-living store stocks the same patio essentials — Pawleys Island hammocks, Kingsley-Bate teak, Summer Classics […]

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Home: Domain: Hire Her: Paige Chapman

Shot by shot, photographer Paige Chapman teases out the details of clients’ houses with an expert eye: the legend of a Main Line colonial, the […]

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Gift Certificate Deals From WOGL

A reader tipped us off to this WOGL deal. Each week radio station WOGL partners with local restaurants to offer gift certificates for half-off. Right […]

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Food Blog Round Up

Photo by Philadining.com A quick tour around the RSS reader reveals that spring has gotten people out and checking out spots all around the area. […]

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Taste: A Rose Is a Rose

Another unique storefront has popped up near 13th and Sansom, a corner already abuzz with an eclectic mix of tenants (foodie destinations Lolita, El Vez […]