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Taste: Coffee Culture: Eat This Now: Coffee

Forget Starbucks or Dunkin’ Doughnuts. Here are our 65 top coffee shops in the area. … and tea, and hot chocolate, even steamed cider. Because […]

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Taste: Spirits: The Half-Caf No-Foam Nonfat Martini?

Coffee, chai and chocolate make the move from Starbucks staples to cocktail shakers. Sweet, creamy drinks are a blast from the distant past. Minty Grasshoppers […]

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Taste: Right-Now Recipe: Apple Spice Coffee Cake

How to make this perfect-anytime cake from Mount Airy’s High Point Café. Coffee Cake 1 ½ c. unsalted butter, plus extra to prepare pan1 ½ […]

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Exit Interview: Dom Irrera

South Philly’s funniest comic comes home for the holidays. Here’s the unfunny thing about comedy — sometimes the guys who get the biggest laughs don’t […]

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Taste: What to Drink: Voyant Chai Cream, $18.99

Few new spirits are as distinctively different and delicious as Voyant Chai Cream, a Bollywood riff on the Baileys theme. The inspiration for this decadent […]

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King Kenny

Why do some people still say that Kenny Gamble isn’t good? Even strolling along the sidewalk, nodding to passers-by, Kenny Gamble exudes a certain grandness. […]

Restaurants

Is Dive A Life Threatening Term?

Sunday’s Inqlings column reported that Atlantic City’s Irish Pub is suing MetroCorp, which publishes Philadelphia Magazine, because the bar was called a dive. “Defendant characterizes […]

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Features: Good to Go

On a hot afternoon four months ago, Larry Shaeffer was driving east on Pine Street in rush-hour traffic when the cars in front of him […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Exhibit: First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image

Take a peek into the personas of the Real Housewives of Washington, D.C. First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image, The National Constitution Center, through […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: On The Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Peer into Starr’s staff meetings, Penn dorm rooms pre-party, and 2nd Street’s VIP lounges. On The Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife By David Grazian […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Ayer

The Ayer: love child of Hahnemann and a W Hotel. The Ayer Condominiums, 210 West Washington Square, theayer.com. The latest entry in Philly’s condo boom, […]

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Features: And Now a Word From Our Fund-Raiser

How Kimmel Center CEO Anne Ewers separates the rich from their money If there’s one place where a newcomer to Philadelphia can get a frightening […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Music Video: Jason Aldean, “Laughed Until We Cried”

The latest crooner trying to claim the mantle of Kenny Chesney. Aldean, the latest crooner trying to claim the mantle of Kenny Chesney Lite, strolls […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Case That Won’t Die

The release this month of Murdered by Mumia (The Lyons Press; $24.95) — an account by Maureen Faulkner, the widow of slain police officer Daniel, […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian

Yes, you can make a difference. Here are 92 great local groups worthy of your time, energy and money. HELP THE POOR GIVE A KID […]