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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The trend in magazines these days, as in the culture at large, leans toward fluff. The conventional wisdom holds that we look to media to […]

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The Three Tenors of Soul, All the Way from Philadelphia Shanachie Entertainment; $18.98 The soulful “Sound of Philadelphia” once defined the city musically around the […]

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How Forgiveness Transcended Traged Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy By Donald B. Kraybill, ­Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-­Zercher (Jossey-Bass; $24.95) In the […]

Which one of Philly’s mainstay stores has up and moved from its Narberth location Bryn Mawr? Bryn Mawr is bursting with style these days. (Note […]

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