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The Perfect Low-Carb Side Dish

Cool, fall weather brings with it one of my favorite foods: spaghetti squash. When baked and scraped from its shell, the flesh of this yellow […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Save the Earth

Help save the Earth and get paid for recycling. What could be better? Plant SomethingSince 1974, Philadelphia Green, a program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Aid the Elderly

Donate Your LeftoversReally! Aid For Friends provides needy, isolated shut-ins with free daily home-cooked meals. When you join as a cook, you’ll be given aluminum […]

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Politics: Cleaning House

At 34, an Abington reformer is Harrisburg’s fastest-rising young star. But is there a place for Jimmy Stewart in Pennsylvania’s smoke-filled back rooms? LAST DECEMBER […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Rescue an Animal

Save Whiskers, Adopt a pet, or donate to PAWS Philadelphia. Take Your Pet to Visit SomeonePals for Life’s pet visitation program brings unconditional love, warm […]

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Some (Damn) Goode Advice!

Here’s Wilson Goode’s guidance on some classic (but questionable) Philly behaviors. Hey Mr. Mayor: My grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, passed away 14 years ago, and […]

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Departments: 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 […]

Restaurants

Veggie Dining At The Belgian Cafe

Living On The Vedge tries some of the numerous vegetarian options at the Belgian Cafe. The “Scallops” were really pieces of smoked tofu wrapped in […]

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AC Now: Dining: Private Dining

Knife & Fork Inn: This vaunted restaurant’s year-old third floor “wine room,” all handsome hardwood and exposed brick, looks out toward the ocean.Seats: Up to […]

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Health: Thanksgiving: Tweaking Turkey Day

Don’t banish healthy eating to the back burner this Thanksgiving Pilgrims, Indians, friends, family … Thanksgiving celebrates many things, but what takes center stage in […]

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Health: Thanksgiving: Trot Before You Gobble

Before you hit the road to Grandma’s, pound the pavement at a local Thanksgiving Day race For many of my high-school classmates (and me, too), […]

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Novemberfest Tomorrow

Hey you’re going to go out drinking anyway. So why not start early and justify it by knowing you’re abusing your liver on behalf of […]

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Health: Diabetes Expo 2007: Diabetes: Living Daily With Diabetes

Learn how to fight this silent killer at the Philadelphia Diabetes Expo Eighteen years ago, Douglas Cairns was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune […]

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Health: Surviving Thanksgiving

Tips for your post-meal workout plan Ah, Thanksgiving. Time to break out those pants reserved solely for a gut-busting meal such as this one. Not […]

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Chester County Loves Variety

Joe Sixpack relays the impressive stats on what will be on tap this weekend at 15 northern Chester County beer joints. 121 unique beers 57 […]