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In this season of uncertainty, we asked financial, economic and property pros to tackle a bunch of real-world real estate scenarios. Their advice for everyone from nervous new owners to antsy empty nesters could help you protect your investment, too

EMPTY NESTERS Big house. Kids finally out of it. Prices still high. Is it time to cash in — even if we’re not really ready […]

After doubling in the past decade, local real estate prices are finally — finally! — cooling down. But just how much?

NOTHING HAUNTS HOMEOWNERS like these two words: “housing bubble.” We’ve been hearing about it, everywhere and incessantly, for at least a year now. Most people […]

But do I want to tell my daughter that?

“I’m home!” I announce as I trudge through the front door in my overcoat, laden with purse and briefcase and reading matter from the office. […]

A new book says that people will soon be able to live forever. I say: Drop dead

NOW THAT THE Atkins Revolution has gone bankrupt because the food was revolting, the strangest diet book around is one put out by Rodale, the […]

The Good Life: Favorite Things: Khaliah Ali

The daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali wears several hats: model-turned-fashion-entrepreneur, spokesperson for charitable causes, single mom. Raised on the Main Line, she recently moved […]

A Philly doc supposedly has a secret to looking young. But do his skin-care products really work

Marshall Sager is used to trying on new hats. In 1991, after nearly 25 years in practice as a family physician, he set up shop […]

Philly style-istas may lament what the city lacks (oh, Barneys!), but we rule on one front: fashion-forward sneakers. From South Street’s funky skate shops to gems like Kicks USA, you could drown while shopping for new spring sneaks. Instead, use th

IF YOU WANT: A pair that looks as good with jeans as it does with skirts or pants. CHECK OUT: Puma. We have a crush […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Creative Buzz: March 2006

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick’s The Revenge of Thomas Eakins offers a portrait of the artist as a clear-headed pioneer of realism bumping up against prudish Victorian […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: March 2006

DVDs Jerry Blavat: The Lost Episodes ($20; call 215-923-0550) In the year 3420, alien beings digging through the lifeless terrain of our once great planet […]

Pulse: A&E: Local Talent: Zoe Strauss

In 2000, South Philly artist Zoe Strauss embarked on a 10-year project — she would spend the next decade photographing our city’s street-level reality. Five […]

What billboards can tell us about the transformation of A.C.

Lights say a lot about a town, and for the past 30 years, the message of the red neon haze that greets visitors on the […]

Pulse: Chatter: Buzz … March 2006

Bankruptcy, bipolar disorder, a drug addiction, and the burden of having to wear designer shades rain or shine never stopped restaurateur Neil Stein, so why […]

WPVI’s Action News has been inundated with new faces in recent months, and it’s hard to keep track of who’s who. Yet one figure has become impossible to forget: weekend sports anchor Keith Russell

K-Russ on slam-dunking 76er Andre Iguodala: “The other A.I., Andre Iguodala. Doesn’t like to study … knows how to cram!” K-Russ on slam dunks: “Don’t […]

How the city’s top cop became an ex-con’s patron

Within the past year, tough guy/philanthropist Joe Mammana has made the jump from ex-con to basic-cable folk hero (“You Don’t Want Me to Get Angry,” […]

Lenny Dykstra weighs in on Mike Schmidt’s steroid-use intimations

In his new book Clearing the Bases, former Phillie Mike Schmidt writes about the first time he saw the effects of steroids: It was the […]

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