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ASK THE EXPERT: Couture in a Crunch?

Question: Our dream venue has an open date about 18 months from now — or two months from now. We’d really like to take the […]

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Finding The Dress: Trunk Shows Coming to a Bridal Salon Near You

The Wedding Shoppe, Wayne December 9-12: Designer Accessory Event This event includes special deals on shoes, tiaras, headpieces, clutches, and more: You’ll receive 8 percent […]

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GETTING OUTTA HERE: Quick Winter Jaunts

There may be no place like home for the holidays, but the roster of hotels and resorts offering sweet holiday deals sure does give the […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Wisdom: Winning Advice

Most Philadelphians know Bernard Hopkins—who boxes at the Liacouras Center on December 2nd—as the 10-year world middleweight champ who creamed guys like Oscar De La […]

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Pulse: Character: James Sugg

Age: 41Known best as: Regular Pig Iron actor, Barrymore Award winner, and recent recipient of New York’s coveted off-Broadway award, the Obie. Also, Philly’s most […]

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Taste: Eat This Now: Pie

 Pie for dinner and dessert? Sounds good to us. Particularly when the slices come from the oven of baker Stephanie Thaw, at her six-week-old retro […]

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Taste: Spirits: Drink Here Now: Square 1682

What:The new Hotel Palomar’s bar, lounge and restaurant. Date opened: October 14th. The mood:Sleek and swanky. Beers: 16 by the bottle. Wines: 85 bottles; 15 […]

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Tastes: Spirits: Wine: Drinking Buddies

Selecting a foreign bottle of wine is always intimidating. Only the most savvy connoisseurs know how the juice from the French vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin differs […]

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Pulse: Pursuits: Books: Read This (Nonfiction) Now

Boardwalk Empireby NJ judge Nelson JohnsonWhat’s inside: The gangsters, gamblers and crooked pols who built A.C. Soon to be an HBO series from Scorsese. Everything […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Brooke De La Villanova: High Society

Aloha, dumplings! Edgar and I are just back from the Maui wedding of Phillies teddy bear Shane Victorino, at which 500 of his and fetching […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Film: Screen Test

Mayor Nutter’s cameo in the recent Jamie Foxx Philly-based action flick Law Abiding Citizen may have been small (five seconds), but it generated big reactions […]

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Pulse: Chatter: World Leaders: Musharraf on the Main Line

Pervez Musharraf, the 66-year-old retired general and former president of Pakistan who was pressured to resign in 2008, likes the ambience of the Water Works […]

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THE SALE REPORT: Sales & Events in the City and ‘Burbs

Lolita: New Location & Sale This fashionable Delaware boutique has moved and will be opening up this weekend in it’s brand new location in the […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Institutions: Saving Private Dining

It was quite a blow to Philly’s upper crust when, in 2003, the Platinum Club of America ranked the country’s best private clubs, and the […]

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Exit Interview: Stephen Lynch

THOUGH SONG-WRITING FUNNYMAN Stephen Lynch was born in Abington, he probably won’t spend much time during his shows at the Borgata on the 4th and […]