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Events: Draggin’ Boat

I’D BEEN APPREHENSIVE about dragon boat camp in the first place, and after a quick survey of the other paddlers in my boat on the […]

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Good Life: Homegrown: Waxing Poetic

There’s something about Wixwax, Kim and Joe Pacini’s six-year-old candle line, that’s absolutely spot on. There’s something about Wixwax, Kim and Joe Pacini’s six-year-old candle […]

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Good Life: How We Spend: Receipt: Deejay

Day One: Gas: $13.50 CITGO, PennsaukenDay Two: Utz pretzels and strawberry Trident: $13.25 CVS, Upper Township; Gas: $10 Wawa, Marmora Day Three: Lunch: $87.37 Sfizzio; […]

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Good Life: How We Spend: Trend: After Hours

Center City stores get ready to stay up past their bedtimes Not too long ago, my entire wardrobe consisted of clothes from two stores. Not […]

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Features: He Said, They Said

How could two juries find Jeffrey J. Marsalis more believable than the 10 women who accused him of rape? LIKE THE REST of them — […]

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Features: Tortured

Eric Fair tells his story that paints a harrowing picture of a rogue, outsourced war. ON A WINTER NIGHT IN IRAQ, darkness stole across the […]

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Taste: Food for Thought: Anatomy of a Restaurant Closing

One Wednesday night in June, every seat in Washington Square West’s M Restaurant was filled. The epicurean crowd, including restaurateurs Alison Barshak and Mark Bee […]

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Features: Class Warfare

Did Michael and Sheryl Pouls use their muscle to get Baldwin School teacher Patsy Tollin fired? Or are Tollin’s old-school ways out of date? ON […]

Restaurants

Tonight

Chick’s Cafe is hosting an Italian beer dinner tonight at 6:30. And of course Restaurant Week is underway. Alma de Cuba has plenty of reservations […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Dog Dyeing

An interesting way suburbanites are spending their disposable income Styles Dog Grooming, 3049 West Chester Pike, Broomall, 610-355-0805 That suburbanites are now putting their disposable […]

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Pulse: Social Diary: Help Unwanted

You need Botox,” said a friend — more of an acquaintance, really, a woman I’d met twice before — some months ago, eyeing my forehead […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Is Entourage Killing Pablo?

This season, HBO’s hit comedy Entourage played up Vincent Chase (above) struggling to make Medellin, a film bio of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. As episodes […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Power: Rage Against The Machine

When a U.S. president is unpopular, the American people have a pretty tried-and-true way of letting him know it: They throw out all his buddies […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Trouble: Holy Wars

In this heavily Catholic state, there’s little political appetite to take on the Church. So it didn’t shock anyone that attempts last year by Pennsylvania […]

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Pulse: Philadelphicon: Walnut Street Theatre

You would think the Walnut Street Theatre would rest on its laurels. After all, the country’s oldest continuously operating theater has, in its 198-year history, […]