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The Appreciation: Comcast SportNet’s Fred Bibbo

There’s a good reason to note this month’s release of Invincible, about former Eagle Vince Papale, and it has nothing to do with our love […]

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Music: Down-Loathed

That Geoffrey Beauchamp is hated should come as no surprise. He’s a lawyer. But Beauchamp commands an especially reviled place in the hearts of many […]

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Politics: Raj Against the Machine

Ask Apprentice addicts how they remember Raj Bhakta, the bow-tied flirt from the show’s second season, and you’ll get something like “goofy, but smart,” or […]

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Pulse: Mail Bonding

What with founding Postmaster General Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday, the issuance of a Franklin stamp, and the opening of a new mail-processing facility in South […]

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Transport: Breaking Away

The murder rate is still shockingly high, the long-awaited smoking ban includes gaping exemptions, and a former councilman was convicted of bribery, fraud and money […]

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Games: Now That Takes Balls

Occasionally these days, Daily News staffers wander past a vacant portion of the paper’s increasingly vacant newsroom and say, “You know, this would make a […]

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The Snapshot: In Plane Sight

Who: Jared Alexa. What: Flying a Piper J3 Cub. Where: Somewhere above Wildwood. Why: Alexa flies for Paramount Air Service, one of the region’s best-known […]

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Wounded Eagle

Donovan McNabb’s feud with receiver Terrell Owens has called everything — his play, his character, even his blackness — into question. Can he handle being […]

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From the Editor August 2006

Thirty-two years ago, this magazine, with our sister publication Boston, introduced readers to the “Best Of” format. Back then, it was called “Best (and Worst) […]

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Governor Comeback

Ed Rendell was dead in the water five months ago. Now it appears he’s a shoo-in to get reelected, and there are whispers about a […]

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Exit Interview: Elizabeth Banks

Chatting up Hollywood starlets is an occupational hazard for Exit Interview. Yet Penn grad Elizabeth Banks made us feel like it was the eighth-grade dance […]

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Coupling: Shore to Score

“Shotttts!” A post-collegiate guy with a red baby face and beefy arms busting out of a Polo shirt orders a round for his friends and […]

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Contrarian: Dialing for Dollars

Local nonprofits always seem to be crying for money. So why do they pay their executives so much? Earlier this year, Pete Hoskins left his […]

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To Do On A Monday

How about a West Philadelphia Monday? University City’s Dining Days are going on, just four nights left. So have a meal, and maybe a movie […]

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Books: Anatomy of a Beach Read

After less than three hours of sleep, Lisa Scottoline woke with a start. It was 4:45 a.m. She dragged herself out of bed and into […]