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Pulse: Retail Report: Now Open: Moving Home

There’s a lot you can do with an extra 800 square feet of space. Which is why when Jay Lamancuso decided to move the Pine […]

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Pulse: Retail Report: April Sales

Skippack’s quaint stationer Leap Frog Paper is holding a one-day sale on April 25th to celebrate its new Lilly Pulitzer paper line . All day, […]

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Pulse: Seasonal Style: Chill, Dude

 SEE OUR FAVORITE FOUR LOOKS HERE Paired with the right threads, light jackets can do more than just take the nip out of Philly’s spring […]

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Pulse: How We Spend: Shopping: We’re Looking Good

The rumors had been swirling around Philadelphia since I moved here in 2003. Fashionistas whispered into one another’s diamond-studded ears that a friend of a […]

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Pulse: Pursuits: Q&A: Mark Segal

Gay. Queer. What is the right word these days?  It depends on the age group. I mean, some still use “homophile”! “Queer” for many people […]

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Exit Interview: Adam Gertler

It’s been a strange road to stardom for Adam Gertler, the 31-year-old actor/cook who, in just four years, went from executive chef of the Smoked […]

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Bistro Confidential

MAGGIE WASSERMAN (née Stein) isn’t worried. She sips a cup of sweet-potato soup inside Rouge, the restaurant that was once her father’s darling and is […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Brooke De la Villanova: High Society

Are Advanta chief and major Temple donor Dennis Alter and his lovely Austrian wife Gisela splitting? That’s the talk on the Main Line social circuit. […]

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Politics: Holy War

JOHN MCCAIN WAS down in the polls — and, more troubling, down in projected electoral votes. The Republican needed to pick off a big state […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Naming Rights: The State Vs. Hell

Maybe “I Choose Hell Productions” isn’t the most wholesome name for an indie movie-making business. But it’s the one local filmmaker and former Banyan employee […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Feuds: Burn Notice

Budget cuts burned down Regina Anderson’s house in Frankford. That’s what the firefighters union has been saying, loudly, in rallies with signs like “Burn, Nutter, […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Wildlife: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!

In light of the harrowing bird-induced water-landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson in January, the nearly 30 million travelers who pass through […]

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Pulse: Character: Ruben Amaro Jr.

Half Latino, half Jewish, the new Phillies GM is only 44 but has already beaten the baseball odds twice. “My father advised me to be […]

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Pulse: At Your Service: Happy Campers

 SEE OUR 8 PICKS HERE Forget tag, hours of TV and pee-filled pools — we rounded up eight local day camps that will fuel your […]

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Taste: Dining Out: Dinner With … Rich Landau

Your vegetarian classification: I’m not vegan. I’m an ovo-lacto vegetarian, so I eat milk and egg products. These days, “vegetarian” can mean almost anything. Last […]