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Good Life: Postcard: Greetings From … Charleston

Why we headed down to Charleston for good eats, posh digs, and an altogether leisurely weekend. Stately antebellum mansions behind a haze of Spanish moss, […]

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Critic’s Notebook: Eat This Now: Lassi

Lassi, a cool Southeast Asian beverage based on yogurt and often enhanced with sugar, salt, fruit purée or spices, is almost as good as a […]

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Critic’s Notebook: Smell Test

When I go out on a reviewing meal, I strive to keep the situation favorable for accurate tasting and observing. I bring a companion who […]

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Critic’s Notebook: Second Bite: The Ugly American

Back in the April issue, I sang the praises of The Ugly American on Front Street. I recently revisited the place, and I’m happy to […]

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Off the Cuff: August 2008

A recent controversy at the University of Pennsylvania strikes me as one of those things that, the more I think about it, tell us much […]

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Tan Fan

I’m super pumped. I’m a bit of a self-made self-tanning guinea pig. I’m blonde, fair, and slam-packed with various events every weekend this summer, keeping […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Brooke de la Villanova: High Society

The annual Ball on the Square is ostensibly about the flora, fauna and general folderol of the Rittenhouse set, but this year seemed more like […]

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Medicine: Doctor Who?

IN SIMPLER TIMES, childbirth was fairly straightforward: A woman picked a doctor, and that doctor attended to her from day one to delivery. But if, […]

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Pulse: Chatter: 100 Years: “Saving Becca”

When 13-year-old Becca Piccini of Doylestown was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in 1997, it marked the start of an agonizing year she and her family […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Restaurants: Kitchen Confidential

EVER SINCE CHEF Shola Olunloyo left Bleu in 2000 and started teensy Studiokitchen — a storied eight-person private dining room in his West Philly apartment […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Survey Says … What?

When, a few months back, J.D. Power and Associates named Philadelphia International Airport number one among the country’s big hubs when it came to customer […]

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Pulse: Philadelphicon: None Such Farm

Time was, if you were eating sweet corn in Philadelphia, you were eating sweet corn from Buckingham’s None Such Farm. There, the Yerkes family has […]

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Terrain Review: Well-Charted Terrain

Those of a certain age remember being treated to a burger at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s. Others recall egg salad sandwiches and petits fours […]

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10 Arts Review: Top 10

Philadelphia is hardly a magnet for celebrity chefs. Sure, Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina have set up outposts in Atlantic City, but except […]

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Good Life: Seasonal Style: White Washed

THE ISLAND-CHIC BABE Calypso dress, $300, Alexis Bittar earrings, $330, and Basia Lucite and sterling silver necklace, $335, all at Knit Wit, 1718 Walnut Street, […]