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Good Life: Postcard: Greetings From Alaska
No roads lead to Alaska, and relatively few run through it, so for most, the only way to see the 49th state is by ship. […]
Wedding: How to: It’s a Nice Day for a Green Wedding
Celebrate your nuptials in eco-chic Philly style We never said we were planning a green wedding — it just happened that way,” says recent Philadelphia […]
Good Life: City Planter
Recommendations for weather-hardy plantings from Mary Costello and Peter Smith of City Planter in Northern Liberties. LARGER PLANTS FOR LARGER POTS Contorted witch hazel (crazy […]
Legends: Bernie Parent Has a Secret
It’s a miserable day at the Schooner Island Marina, just over the bridge in Wildwood. A late-October nor’easter is rocking all of the boats docked […]
Society: A Dangerous Book for Girls
My husband Doug and I were watching the marching band perform at our son’s high-school football game when I noticed something. There on the field […]
Coupling: Wedding Belle Blues
The trouble started almost immediately after we got engaged. I’ll spare you the details of the proposal since, as it turns out, there are two […]
Home: My New Best Friend: Heavenly Hostess
I LOVE HAVING houseguests. I’ve hosted all kinds in all kinds of circumstances. When I lived in a studio apartment, an Academy Award-nominated pal happily […]
The Good Generation
The Lord isn’t the only one who works in mysterious ways. So do rock stars. One day a couple of years ago, Sister Mary Scullion […]
And Now a Word From Our Fund-Raiser
If there’s one place where a newcomer to Philadelphia can get a frightening dose of reality, it’s the airport. Last winter, when Kimmel Center CEO […]
Power: Manage This
It was 1:20 a.m. on February 3rd, 2003, when the ring of the telephone shattered my sleep. “It’s for you,” my wife said as she […]
Loco Parentis: Beyond Words
When she was four, my daughter Marcy’s favorite TV show was I Love Lucy. While other kids were wriggling to Barney’s theme song, Marcy was […]
The Godfather’s Daughter
In the picture, she is six years old, wearing a ruffled bathing suit, an inner tube wrapped around her waist, her tiny toes firmly planted […]
The Good Life: Travel: City ‘Scapes: Washington
Stay: Swann House (1808 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 202-265-4414; swannhouse.com), a red stone mansion off Dupont Circle, has all the amenities of a luxury hotel […]
The Good Life: Travel: City ‘Scapes: Boston
Stay: The recently opened InterContinental Boston (510 Atlantic Avenue; 617-747-1000; intercontinentalboston.com) is the first good thing to rise above the site of the Big Dig […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Cinema: The Pearl Theater at Avenue North
The Pearl is the first new movie house North Philly has seen in more than 50 years. But if you’re expecting any of the luster […]