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Avalon Review: Avalon Redux

WHEN JOHN BRANDT-LEE bought Avalon in 2002, it was a struggling 10-month-old restaurant ­teetering between success and failure. The former Web designer was convinced that […]

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Good Life: Homegrown: Goodie Bag

It’s hard to do much of anything these days without encountering a self-congratulatory attempt to go green. Whole Foods bans plastic bags! Ikea does, too! […]

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Elegant Wedding: Cake Walk

The sugar-covered star of your reception gets a new look The drama. The elegance. The "How can that possibly be made out of sugar?" moment […]

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Good Life Daily: Wedding Cheer

Giving wedding guests donations in their name instead of lame candle favors is all the rage these days, but the Omni Hotel at Independence Park […]

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Good Life: Trend: Rental Riche

Even if “sub-prime” and “mortgage crisis” aren’t in your lexicon, we’re all feeling the squeeze. We say, if you don’t make it, fake it: Here, […]

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Web Extra: Four Decades of the Philadelphia Orchestra

1960s Ormandy’s Orchestra Spectacle: Mimeographed Music The Lost Accord Rhapsody in White 1970s Have Cello Will Travel Books: Oboe Jungle Music: Is There a Maestro […]

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Good Life: The Mix: Branching Out

Urban Outfitters, Inc.’s transformation of 118-year-old J. Franklin Styer Nurseries into a brand-new home and garden concept store, Terrain at Styer’s, is nothing short of […]

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Good Life: The Mix: Lowdown: June 2008

Doylestown’s Sweet Blossoms Lingerie Boutique has new digs, which means more space for cute PJs from Pine Cone Hill (left). In the world of the […]

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Good Life: The Mix: Heat Wave

Summer in Philly means three solid months of hair-wrecking humidity that requires more than a deep-­conditioning treatment to keep locks in line. We’ve found the […]

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Good Life: Debut: Moko

No wonder Monique Mason, owner of Old City newbie Moko, describes her gleaming, weeks-old shop as “holistic” — many of her services, from the 45-minute […]

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The Shore ’08

LONG BEACH ISLAND THE VIBE Thought of as Jersey’s answer to the Hamptons in recent years (one of its towns is called Loveladies, for God’s […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Business: Vernon Goes Green

It’s only been a year since Commerce Bancorp founder ­Vernon W. Hill II was ­ousted as CEO (accused of too much bank biz with ­family […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Philadelphia Magazine 100 Years: “The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter”

In honor of our centennial, we look back at some of the stories that shaped Philly Mag By 1965, Gaeton Fonzi had read the Warren […]

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Pulse: Philadelphicon: The Hallahan Splash

When, on June 13th, the school bell rings for the last time this year, the young ladies of the near-century-old John W. Hallahan High (originally […]

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Exit Interview: Jim Florentine

LONG BEFORE JIM Florentine became a regular on Comedy Central’s prank-call puppet show, Crank Yankers, and The Howard Stern Show, he was just another Jersey […]