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Good Life: Trimmings: Making a Statement
Woven necklace, $278 at Anthropologie. Armani Collezioni asymmetrical mirrored-glass necklace, $950 at Neiman Marcus. Maison Martin Margiela chrome necklace, $595 at Joan Shepp. Alexis Bittar […]
Distrito: Mexing It Up
The neon signs of Distrito, Jose Garces’s new Mexican restaurant, light up 40th Street in University City like a beacon to everyone in a five-block […]
Parc Review: The Second Coming
In the beginning (13 years ago), there was the Continental. Stephen Starr had left a 15-year career in the music industry to open his first […]
Pulse: Chatter: Crime: Women’s Work
In a city known for macho swagger, it may come as a surprise to realize that nearly all the top law-enforcement officials — the toughest […]
How Did This Guy Turn This Guy Into Phillys Most Popular Pitchman?
IT’S A TESTAMENT to the determination of Jon Runyan, or to whatever else is driving him, that he is here this Tuesday afternoon, in front […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Favorite Son
Main Liners may know David Wolpe — rabbi of L.A.’s Sinai Temple, author, talking head — as the son of Gerald, former rabbi of Penn […]
Pulse: Chatter: Crime: Sweating the Small Stuff
NOT ALL THAT long ago, the biggest problem on Walnut Street — a.k.a. Philly’s sparkliest shopping district — was trying to lure people to it. […]
Web Original: Critic’s Notebook: A Call to Farms
Michael Pollan, the New York Times Magazine‘s go-to scribe on food politics, is at it again with an open letter to our future president. In […]
Exit Interview: Taylor Swift
In case you wouldn’t know Tim McGraw from a McNugget, here’s what Taylor Swift will have accomplished before she turns 19 next month: released a […]
The Last Great Lady
Matt Hamilton already knew that his mother was one of your more independent billionaire heiresses. But even he wasn’t quite prepared for the Bermuda trip. […]
The Judge Makers
ONE DAY IN early March 2007, at the Keystone Building in Harrisburg, there was a lottery drawing. Not for cash, but to decide who would […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Legend
Patti LaBelle Recipes for the Good Life (Karen Hunter; $25) and Back to Now (Verve) Patti LaBelle’s been busy, with a new cookbook, Recipes for […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction
Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case of America’s Unknown ChildBy David Stout (Lyons Press; $16.95) In his fifth book, New York Times reporter Stout […]
Good Life: Homegrown: Sleeping Beauty
Four years ago, JoAnn Means had a vision, and it was of her three-year-old daughter’s bedroom. She turned to her husband Johnny, a self-taught carpenter, […]
Media: Tuned Out
THE WELLINGTON BUILDING stands at the corner of 19th and Walnut streets, overlooking Rittenhouse Square. The place is staid, stuffy. Heavyweight lawyers, and women who […]