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Pulse: People: The Return of Cubism

The Rubik’s Cube is hot again, and a 17-year-old from Central Bucks West is the American record-holder. Quinn Lewis had just become the fastest American […]

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Pulse: Power: Passing On The Bucks

After popping up in a book about the Clintons, Dawn Dugan gets an offer she can refuse. This summer, local media was a-twitter with the […]

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Power: Is Ken Smukler for Real?

With Red/Blue, the Philly campaign consultant wants to create an American Idol for the 527-set. Will TV viewers take to a reality show about politics? […]

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Pulse: The Shore: And Now … Atlantic City

The best bet in A.C. right now isn’t at the poker table. For years, the one tepid spot in the blistering Jersey Shore real estate […]

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Pulse: Big Ideas: Why Philadelphia Needs the Olympics

It isn’t a pipe dream. It’s a realistic goal that could transform the city. We know what your first reaction is going to be: Here? […]

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Pulse: Player: Tamala Edwards

At Action News, an anchor on the rise. Spend a few minutes talking with Tam Edwards, and the names, naturally, just start flowing. There’s a […]

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Off the Cuff

Rick Santorum is behaving very strangely of late. He’s never been a politician afraid to speak his mind, but he seems to have gone off […]

Restaurants

Changes In Store For Center City Sips

The hugely popular Center City Sips will be back this spring but with at least one change of note, appetizers are no longer a dollar […]

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Blue Horse Restaurant & Tavern Review: Menu Makeover

Can a talented new chef revive the Blue Horse Restaurant & Tavern? Like many suburbanites, chef Grant Langdon Brown, formerly of Center City’s Meritage, wanted […]

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Morning News with Advice

Drinking advice for Hillary Clinton. [The Moderate Voice] Etiquette advice for lazies: Evite is lame. [NYT] More pity for pumped-up pizza prices. [NYT} Is the […]

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Column: In the Garden: Trial Run

My yard runneth over with plants — free plants Three springs ago, Karl Lagerfeld offered to send me a box of his latest creations — […]

Restaurants

Observations and Burblings

Some observations, some burblings… Is Patou for sale? Sure looks like it from these pictures, which match their website pictures. We hear lots of Old […]

Restaurants

Last Night, It Was Time for Time

Photo by Matt O’Hara The ‘official’ opening is Saturday, but Time, the new restaurant/bar/lounge from Vintage owners Jason and Delphine Evenchik was wide open last […]

Restaurants

Abbey Road

Tria is hosting Koningshoeven Brewery, one of only eight authentic Trappist breweries and the only one in the Netherlands this Monday night. Gijs Swinkels and […]

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Tria’s Oh-So-Spring (And Totally Good for You!) Salad

Chill a white wine, take this dish to the porch and welcome spring. Bon appetit! The city is finally feeling like spring. Trees are starting […]