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With the groundbreaking soaps One Life to Life and All My Children, Agnes Nixon changed television. And all it took was eavesdropping on her Main Line neighbors

THINGS HAVE GOTTEN BITCHY among the denizens of the fictional Main Line town of Llanview, the setting of One Life to Live, but then again, […]

Sweet Suits

How did an ex-deli owner with an air-conditioning fetish become the most powerful force in shaping Philadelphia? A rye tale about politics, deals and hot pastrami

IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY AFTERNOON, but there’s not much love to go around here in the soul-sucking, drab meeting room where the Zoning Board of Adjustments […]

Sick of looking for health information online, only to be told you have cancer, Ebola or the plague — no matter what symptoms you have? Here’s help

What do you suppose are the four most popular categories of Internet traffic? You probably got the obvious ones — news, shopping and porn. But […]

There aren’t many jobs like Sean McKinney’s. In January, the former Sixers ball boy, Malvern Prep student and St. Joe’s baseball player became president of 103-year-old sporting-goods giant Mitchell & Ness. Now, 15 years after he wip

How’d you get into sports apparel? When I graduated from St. Joe’s in 1997, I knew I had no chance of becoming a pro athlete. […]

Friendship: The Promise

HALF A DOZEN YEARS AGO, two 12-year-old boys met on a basketball court in South Philly. They were playing summer league in a magical summer, […]

The Good Life: Receipt: High-School High

Forget about the balloon-filled gym, dyed satin shoes and virginity clichés that defined your high-school prom. As prom season kicks off around Philly, local graduating […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic May 2007

MEMOIR Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball By Bill Giles with Doug Myers (Triumph; $24.95) By Greg […]

The Good Life: Trendspotting: Robo-retail

These days, it’s rare for newfangled retail gimmicks to stand out. But like Daryl Hannah’s mermaid character in Splash’s electronics-store scene, I found myself transfixed […]

Pulse: Kumar Goes to Penn

He may have gotten famous as a stoner in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, but actor Kal Penn — most recently critically lauded […]

As two high-profile partners square off to raise money for opposing candidates, the ’08 presidential election could give new meaning to the term “a Wolf at the door”

Like a lot of high-powered Philadelphia law firms, Wolf Block is no stranger to the intersection of law and high-stakes political fundraising. But this year […]

We all love a little affection from our friends … don’t we?

“I’ve always been a hugger,” says Anne, who lives in Haverford and is the kind of pretty, good-smelling person anyone would want to be hugged […]

Baseball is officially in full swing — meaning yet one more season of high hopes (followed no doubt by dashed ones). Here, some selected shouts and murmurs from the past 50 years.

“They’ve shown me ways to lose that I never knew existed.” — Mets manager Casey Stengel, on the Phils’ 23-game losing streak in 1961. “It […]

Pulse: Chatter: The Appreciation: Jeff Lurie

Earlier this year, Eagles president Joe Banner lamented that folks in Philly don’t seem to have much love for Birds owner Jeff Lurie. “I can’t […]

Philly’s food czar eyes the Schuylkill

Is Stephen Starr looking at the waterfront? Bedrock Group, owners of the old Rosenbluth Travel building at 24th and Walnut, along the banks of the […]

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