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Pulse: Chatter: Brooke De la Villanova: High Society: November 2009

Popped into the kickoff luncheon for the Princess Diana exhibit at the Constitution Center, where CC prez Linda Johnson looked like she was headed to […]

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Pulse: Style Scene: Now Open: High-Minded Style

With the opening of SA VA in Center City, Philly entrepreneur Sarah Van Aken proves that her design skills are as impressive as her business […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Life In Philly: A Moveable (Cupcake!) Feast

Seven ladies stand on the corner of 34th and Walnut, waiting. It’s 12:02 p.m.The truck is late. But when they see it chugging toward them, […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Kids These Days: Fang Gang

Everywhere you turn of late—at least in film, television and teen lit—vampires are enjoying their day in the sun (er, metaphorically speaking). But now the […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Restaurants: Say Cheese!

In these high-tech times, the fact that you may be videotaped by hidden cameras while you dine in your favorite restaurant may not be as […]

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THE SALE REPORT: Fall Events and Sales Throughout the Region

Tony: Phillies Sale!In honor of our fabulous champion baseball team, this trendy Old City boutique is marking down all red items in the store — […]

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Pulse: Seasonal Style: Hide Pride

You won’t find your mother’s floor-length mink in Philly’s boutiques this fall. Instead, fur is reinvented for the times via discreet, subtle touches like trims, […]

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WHAT WE’RE SHOPPING FOR: Fur Accents

I’ve never been much of a fur girl. It always just seemed — I don’t know, a bit too much for me, or something. But […]

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GETTING OUTTA HERE: Autumn Getaways

Cheesy as it may be, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York — live! In person! —  is something of a dream of […]

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Spirits: Taste: Sipping Savant: Liquid Assets

At some point in the very near past, somewhere around the time unemployment reached record highs and the Dow record lows, I received an e-mail […]

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Loco Parentis: Sheets Happen

“I GOT THE job,” Marcy announces, bouncing into the kitchen in early June, smiling proudly. I look up from chopping onions. “What job?” “Housekeeper at […]

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Pulse: At Your Service: Art Capital

Philadelphia’s art scene is unstoppable: Galleries are overflowing with new local talent, and artists from around the globe are opening studios in our city. How […]

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Taste: Dining Out: Where We Are Eating: Sonata

In NoLibs, home of the gastropub, an upscale BYOB is a welcome change of pace. And while Sonata’s menu falls into the same pan-roasted-chicken-breast-and-lobster-mac-and-cheese trap […]

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Taste: Dining Out: Where We Are Eating: Tiffin Etc.

Tiffin’s Indian-food delivery empire is growing not only in size (look for spots in Wynnewood and Bryn Mawr), but also in breadth. This unusual spin-off, […]

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Taste: Dining Out: Where We Are Eating: Village Whiskey

VW may be Jose Garces’s fifth Philly establishment, but it’s his first non-tapas, non-Latin one, and this corner spot feels more like a bar than […]