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Pulse: At Your Service: Letter Perfect

Forget flowers and candy. To make Valentine’s Day memorable this year, we suggest you cheat. Sort of. For a small fee, local author — and […]

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Pulse: Retail Report: Teen Scene: First Dance

Media’s sweet, sister-owned Sorella Boutique has added a prom lounge to its lower level, giving doe-eyed girls a place to browse reasonably priced dresses in […]

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My Buys: Jessica Troiano

WHO: Jessica Troiano OWNS: Piccolini MOST RECENT PURCHASE I’M LOVING: It’s a tie: my silver dog-tag necklace; and a black halter dress by Splendid DISCOVERED […]

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Local Spotlight: Ellen Himic Designs, LLC

Long gone are the days when stringing some beads on a piece of string qualifies as designing jewelry — and we, frankly, couldn’t be happier. […]

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Health: Save Lungs — and Bucks — With Free Quit-Smoking Kits

Of course you know: Smoking is bad for you. But with taxes looming, layoffs left and right, and that big Christmas shopping bill to pay […]

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Alison Two Review: Twice as Nice

A QUARTET OF 30-somethings raises cocktails for a toast. The women haven’t seen each other recently; they chat away, with extra time and attention given […]

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Eat, Pray, Live.

WE ARE SITTING in a hole-in-the-wall bagel and coffee shop in Frenchtown, 16 miles upriver from Lambertville, and Liz Gilbert is talking. Liz loves to […]

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1978 Called. It Wants Its Newspaper Back

IN THE HEADY early days after Brian Tierney’s ownership group purchased the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News in 2006, one of his new employees […]

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Street Style: Office Invasion

So … in case you haven’t noticed, it’s cold. Like, really cold. So cold that my camera freezes solid as soon as I leave the […]

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Exhibit B: The Ice Cyclist

Extreme biker Lucas Brunelle likes nothing more than riding where he doesn’t belong. He has risked international incident with a spin on the Great Wall […]

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People: A Cause to Adopt

THERE’S NO PAYMENT plan for adoption. That’s something Becky Fawcett found out as she sat across from her lawyer in his Doylestown office, looking down […]

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Do This Now: The Zoo

While it might seem counterintuitive to visit the Philadelphia Zoo in the dead of winter, I can tell you by personal experience (went last weekend) […]

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Last-Minute Tables for Restaurant Week

Last week we uncovered the best deals. This week, we tell you whether you can still get them. As promised, we’re doing all we can […]

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Local Spotlight: Sheila Frank

Designer Sheila Frank certainly knows a lot about making something out of nothing: Growing up in Upper Darby, she resorted to toilet paper and tape […]

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First Bite: El Camino Real

I love small-plate eating: There’s no better way to sample what a restaurant really has to offer and keep up with our short-attention span world. […]