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Health: Stay Out to Stay Fit

When it comes to having fun this summer, don’t let your kids settle for the computer screen. A recent study in the Journal of the […]

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Good Life: The Mix: Lowdown

Saturday, August 9th, just might be our favorite day of the year. That’s when Old City boutiques Third Street Habit and Sugarcube come together for […]

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Good Life: Homegrown: Making History

Quality vintage is fashion’s trump card. Wear it well and you’ll be admitted to the most exclusive of clothing clubs. So it’s no surprise that […]

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Good Life: The Mix: Plant Ahead

In the spring of 2005, Chestnut Hill-based garden designers Mary Costello and Peter Smith realized there wasn’t a place that sold the stuff — window […]

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Exit Interview: Patti Smith

EXIT INTERVIEW AND rock legend Patti Smith have something in common: both went to Rowan University (Glassboro State in her day). That’s where the similarities […]

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Good Life: Luxuries: Water World

When a hotel opening in A.C. proclaimed it was setting a new standard for glamorous accommodations this side of the Delano, we were skeptical. Believe […]

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Home: Domain: Gardening: Blueberry Thrill

Come July, fields of ripening blueberries are a South Jersey roadside staple. To make this summertime crop yours, you need a little backyard space, direct […]

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The Couple That Loves Us Back

AS FIRST DATES GO, it wasn’t the stuff of storybook romance. Jen Cooper, an artsy dance major at UCLA, was just back from a year […]

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Best of Philly 2008: The Best Philadelphian is Mary Seton Corboy

MARY SETON CORBOY IS just a farmer. A farmer in a faded Greensgrow Farm t-shirt and two right-handed gardening gloves. A farmer with a constant […]

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Wyeth’s World

SPANNING THE BRANDYWINE River, where Pennsylvania and Delaware meet, there’s a bridge to an imagined place. [sidebar]The bridge looks as you might expect: It’s a […]

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Good Life: Debut: Estetiks

Lifetime Doylestown resident Shael Fisher owns more than 250 pairs of sneakers, many still in their original boxes, dating back to ’87. But these aren’t […]

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Celebrity: “Do You Know Who I Am?”

IT’S ME — KENNETH KEITH! He had long strawberry-blond hair, parted in the middle. Swooping. Feathered. The comparison was unavoidable: Farrah Fawcett. That — along […]

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Good Life: Postcard: Greetings From … Beijing

If, this month, you find yourself as taken with the Olympics’ exotic locale as with the Games, now’s the time to plan the trip of […]

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Train Wrecks: McGreevey v. McGreevey

“If you had it to do all over again,” the girl said, “would you do something else?” “Nobody has it to do all over again,” […]

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Sports: How Merion Got Its Groove Back

ON THE LAST Friday of each September, the members of Merion Golf Club celebrate Bobby Jones’s ascension — on September 27, 1930, to be exact […]