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Insider scoop on sales in Old City and a custom t-shirt shop in Wildwood, NJ.

Saturday, August 9th, just might be our favorite day of the year. That’s when Old City boutiques Third Street Habit and Sugarcube come together for […]

A unique new jewelry line uses antique materials to create one-of-a-kind pieces.

Quality vintage is fashion’s trump card. Wear it well and you’ll be admitted to the most exclusive of clothing clubs. So it’s no surprise that […]

How to get your city garden ready for fall

In the spring of 2005, Chestnut Hill-based garden designers Mary Costello and Peter Smith realized there wasn’t a place that sold the stuff — window […]

The pride of Deptford High is the subject of a new book and documentary

EXIT INTERVIEW AND rock legend Patti Smith have something in common: both went to Rowan University (Glassboro State in her day). That’s where the similarities […]

An inside look at A.C.’s newest — and swankiest — hotels.

When a hotel opening in A.C. proclaimed it was setting a new standard for glamorous accommodations this side of the Delano, we were skeptical. Believe […]

Come July, fields of ripening blueberries are a South Jersey roadside staple.
To make this summertime crop yours, you need a little backyard space, direct sunlight — and about $15.
Pie-bakers require a variety that can bear bigger berries, like ‘Bluecrop’; if you’re dreaming of pancakes and muffins

Come July, fields of ripening blueberries are a South Jersey roadside staple. To make this summertime crop yours, you need a little backyard space, direct […]

From nights out in Center City to working with abused pets, Chase and Jen Utley have embraced Philadelphia as much as the city has embraced them

AS FIRST DATES GO, it wasn’t the stuff of storybook romance. Jen Cooper, an artsy dance major at UCLA, was just back from a year […]

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Worried about crazy food prices? Urban farmer Mary Seton Corboy says the solution might be right beneath our feet

MARY SETON CORBOY IS just a farmer. A farmer in a faded Greensgrow Farm t-shirt and two right-handed gardening gloves. A farmer with a constant […]

The art — and lives — of Andrew and Jamie Wyeth are stranger and darker than they first appear

SPANNING THE BRANDYWINE River, where Pennsylvania and Delaware meet, there’s a bridge to an imagined place. [sidebar]The bridge looks as you might expect: It’s a […]

A shoe boutique in Doylestown focuses on limited edition sneakers.

Lifetime Doylestown resident Shael Fisher owns more than 250 pairs of sneakers, many still in their original boxes, dating back to ’87. But these aren’t […]

How did Howard Stern favorite Kenneth Keith Kallenbach end up dead after a stint in a Delaware County prison?

IT’S ME — KENNETH KEITH! He had long strawberry-blond hair, parted in the middle. Swooping. Feathered. The comparison was unavoidable: Farrah Fawcett. That — along […]

Insider tips on what to see and do in Beijing.

If, this month, you find yourself as taken with the Olympics’ exotic locale as with the Games, now’s the time to plan the trip of […]

An ugly divorce trial reveals everything we didn’t really want to know about the former governor and his wife

“If you had it to do all over again,” the girl said, “would you do something else?” “Nobody has it to do all over again,” […]

The inside story of how the venerable Main Line golf club landed the 2013 U.S. Open

ON THE LAST Friday of each September, the members of Merion Golf Club celebrate Bobby Jones’s ascension — on September 27, 1930, to be exact […]

The spooky Main Line mansion Jennifer Finney Boylan grew up in still haunts her to this day

“THIS IS THE street,” said my father, as we drove past big houses with wrought iron fences on a summer day in 1972. At first […]

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