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Pulse: Social Diary: The Kiss Army

“I’ve always been a hugger,” says Anne, who lives in Haverford and is the kind of pretty, good-smelling person anyone would want to be hugged […]

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Pulse: (Get) Outta Here!

“They’ve shown me ways to lose that I never knew ­existed.” — Mets manager Casey Stengel, on the Phils’ 23-game losing streak in 1961. “It […]

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Pulse: Chatter: The Appreciation: Jeff Lurie

Earlier this year, Eagles president Joe Banner lamented that folks in Philly don’t seem to have much love for Birds owner Jeff Lurie. “I can’t […]

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Sponsor Shout Out

Someone more shallow than us once said money makes the world go round. We’re not exactly sure why the Earth spins on its axis but […]

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Pulse: Chatter: A Starr Turn West?

Is Stephen Starr looking at the waterfront? Bedrock Group, owners of the old Rosenbluth Travel building at 24th and Walnut, along the banks of the […]

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Pulse: That Other Election

In a one-party town like Philadelphia, the May primary, not the general election, holds all the juice. But while the five donkeys vying for the […]

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Pulse: No sale, T.O.

It’ll be a big commission, but Voorhees realtor Erica Lacey is working for every dime. She’s the listing agent for the region’s most famous (or […]

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Pulse: 5 Stupid Questions for: John Butterworth

Why would anyone in his right mind drive the Conshohocken Curve at 8 a.m.? It usually takes about 20 minutes to get through the delay, […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Survey: Beverly Hills 19104

Tyler Ritter, Class of ’07 Not only does the son of the late, lovable Three’s Company buffoon John Ritter boast an impressive 500-plus Penn friends; […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Five Questions for: David Walter

How did you prepare for the competition? I had a couple of almanacs — I was more worried about breadth than depth. I focused on […]

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Pulse: I’ll Have Some Gerber And a White Wine Spritzer

It seems it was only a Bur-berry season or two ago that we discovered we had to start strategizing shortly after Lamaze to get our […]

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From the Editor: April 2007

I like to think of this magazine as the chronicler of the soap opera that is the Philadelphia region. Like any good daytime drama, we […]

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From the Editor: May 2007

Sometimes it’s cool to be running a magazine. For about 10 days in late March, I did little else but ask beautiful women to take […]

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Off the Cuff: April 2007

I realized I needed a break from Philadelphia when I was so fed up with the state of things that I started writing a column […]

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Pulse: Politics: Liberal U.

Long before Grover Norquist and Karl Rove became GOP superstars, they were trained in the political arts by Morton Blackwell, who now heads the Leadership […]