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Taste: A Nouveau Season
Roll out the barrel — well, the bottle — for the first sips of this year’s Beaujolais nouveau Originally intended as a celebratory toast to […]
Loco Parentis: Much Ado About Turkey
Our parenting columnist looks at holidays past and wonders: What happens when you really can’t go home again? Marcy is moving out. I’ve seen this […]
Eat This Now: Drinking Chocolate
This hot chocolate isn’t Swiss Miss, or even high-end Schokinag. Served in a delicate demitasse cup and made with three different types of the dark […]
The Good Life: The Mix: Look We Love: Hats
Straight-up skullcaps are so two minutes ago (wink). This fall, have fun with Straight-up skullcaps are so two minutes ago (wink). This fall, have fun […]
Tuesday Morning Makeover
“ALL RIGHT EVERYONE, LET’S REFOCUS,” says Mary Anne Whalen, clapping her hands together, her voice cutting over the din in a house that’s rarely this […]
Pulse: Chatter: Five Questions for Janice Woodcock
Janice Woodcock, newly appointed executive director of Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission, who will try to follow in the footsteps of William Penn and Ed Bacon […]
The Good Life: Obsession: Japanese Powder Brushes
Thanksgiving may celebrate this country, but our favorite toy this month takes its inspiration from across the world: The new Kabuki Artisan Brushes from NARS […]
The Good Life: The Mix: Shopping at … : Near & Far
The perfect present for dad this year? A lacewood and beech chess box designed and made by Drexel alum Neil Curlett, whose new Indonesian furniture […]
Real Estate 2005: Will The Bubble Burst?
Want the good news first? Prices still up! Rates still low! In fact, the average house-price in the Philadelphia area in 2004 increased by a […]
The Good Life: Health: Backs of the Future
Two years ago, a trip on the stairs left my husband with chronic, sharp pains shooting from his back down along his left leg. An […]
Taste: E-Groceries
Why go to the supermarket when it will come to you? Acmemarkets.com How to: Register free at Acmemarkets.com, choose an available two-hour window for delivery […]
Taste: Reviews: Water Works-in-Progress
The views at the Water Works Restaurant are so fabulous, it’s tough for the kitchen to compete What are you looking at? Probably not much, […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Venues: Johnny Brenda’s
Johnny Brenda’s 1201 Frankford Avenue; 215-739-9684 After a year’s combat with the Zoning Board and a cranky old neighbor who happens to be a state […]
Travel: One-Night Stands
Upper Black Eddy 1:38 Head to the top of lovely Bridgeton House, where the Penthouse room has a lofty, romantically lit feeling, a marble bathroom, […]
Spring Travel: Warning: Kid Zone
We arrived later than we’d expected—seven-ish on Saturday evening, having spent what seemed like six days caught in a Poconos traffic jam—and so we immediately […]