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City Life

It’s Official: Dead Musicians Are Now Touring as Holograms

I’ve been hearing rumors of hologram concert tours coming to the United States for six years now, ever since the Tupac Shakur hologram made its […]

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Be Well Philly

Daydreaming About Quitting Your Job to Become a Spin Instructor? Read This First.

I can hear Shoshana Katz shouting from the lobby of the gym. She screams a couple of words I can’t repeat here, and I eventually […]

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Property

Is West Philly the New Portland?

When I moved out West from Philly in 2010, it felt like striking gold. In Portland, Oregon, I found a beautiful city with a sense […]

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City Life

The Looming DROP Apocalypse

He was the only son of the Big Bambino, but even that couldn’t save him from the political firestorm over DROP. Seven years ago, Frank […]

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City Life

I Used to Love Steak — Then I Met a Cow

When I was in my 20s, I started working at an alternative weekly, which I should explain to younger readers was a free tabloid-format newspaper […]

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Things to Do

Kingston and Saugerties: Fall More Deeply In Love

So you’re already a regular in Hudson, and your first visit to Storm King happened in college. Ready to deepen your love affair with HV? […]

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Things to Do

Hudson: The Perfect Maiden Voyage Upstate

If you’re skeptical about this whole New-York-beyond-the-five-boroughs thing, the city of Hudson is the place to start. Getting there is easy — you can Amtrak […]

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Things to Do

Rhinebeck: Go to Indulge Your Inner Gwyneth

With its multiple yoga and Pilates studios and an across-the-board emphasis on locally sourced foods, it’s easy to turn Rhinebeck — a quaint town on […]

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Things to Do

Beacon: Art, Hiking and, Oh, the Views

You know this story: A busy Northeast town loses its factories in the 1960s and ’70s, shriveling to a shell of its former self. Artists, […]

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Things to Do

2018 Fall Travel Guide: Your Hudson Valley Escape Awaits

If you still think of New York’s Hudson Valley as a sleepy riverbed best known for landscape paintings, think again — these days, the small […]