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Foie Gras Reporting

Gasp! Actual reporting regarding foie gras and whether it is inhumane. An excellent article in this week’s City Paper as David Snyder actually visits America’s […]

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Duck Spring Rolls At Silk City

Rick Nichols profiles the duck spring rolls at Silk City. Good Taste [Philadelphia Inquirer]

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All Aboard For Bar Crawl

The Camden Courier Post comes up with a fun thing to do with the New Jersey Transit River LINE. Let it be your designated driver […]

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070707 At 707

707 Restaurant & Bar introduces their 707 Lounge concept this Saturday, July 7th or 07-07-07 if you want to keep the 707 theme going. The […]

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Cheap Dates: G-Ho And The Schuylkill

The intrepid duo of Audrey and Mark visit G-Ho and the Schuylkill River trail on their latest cheap date. The couple visits Grace Tavern, walks […]

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The Times, They Are A Changing

Joe Sixpack gives a rundown of some Pennsylvania state laws that may be changing and what they’ll mean for consumers. Can you say six-pack sales […]

City Life

Coupling: It’s not me, it’s you

“I’M ONLY TELLING YOU this because you are a horrible person and you’ll understand,” said my friend Rose. She had just returned from Thanksgiving with […]

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Contrarian: Springtime for Santorum

Last year, when Senator Rick Santorum published his anti-liberal, anti-feminist, anti-gay manifesto It Takes a Family, a lot of political pundits were stunned by his […]

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The Good Life: Winter Spa-tacular

PHILADELPHIA 1: Winter Body Renewal at Adolf Biecker Spa & Salon This full-body exfoliation includes a mini-facial and Vichy shower, too. The vibe: Total. Utter. […]

City Life

The Good Life: Sun Direct

BERMUDA By Blake Miller Why: Barely a two-hour flight, and you’re walking on petal-pink sand beaches or taking in the other manicured charms of this […]

City Life

The Madness of John Chaney

HOW YOU START IS HOW YOU FINISH. The old man loves little sayings that capture the whole deal, and he sprinkles them through practice on […]

City Life

Media: John Grogan Likes It Ruff

ON A TUESDAY on the cusp of the New Year, a cloud of existential angst drifted over the newsroom at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Two­thousand-five had […]

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Thursday Night

Check out the Sidecar Bar & Grille tonight for BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) plus drink deals all night. SPONSORED BY

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: February 2006

AD CAMPAIGNS Comcastic! By Maureen Tkacik Once in a great while there comes an ad campaign I’ll wait through hours of mindless television in vague, […]

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Pulse: Local Talent: Linda Goss

It was clear to Linda Goss, long before Mayor Wilson Goode declared her the official storyteller of the City of Philadelphia, that telling stories was […]