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Ragas Report: Trendspotting

Gauchos do not call their gauchos “gauchos.” That might be reason enough to avoid these pants — that they reduce an entire proud-if-impoverished people to […]

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Pulse : Getaway: Where the du Ponts Sleep

Wilmington is a weekday town. That’s when business types fill its hotel rooms and happy hours, and the fluorescent lights of its bank-building skyline burn […]

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Pulse: Health: A Coronary Close-Up

Perry Weinstock wasn’t sure why his patient, a 55-year-old Cherry Hill resident, was suffering chest pains severe enough to send her to the ER. She’d […]

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Pulse: City Life: Feel Free to Squeeze the Melons

Thump that watermelon all you want; you’ll never know whether it’s ripe until you bring it home. Unless you buy from Mark Levin, a vendor […]

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Pulse: Controversies: More, Michael?

Outside City Hall, Michael Marcavage stands behind a tarp that reads “SODOMY SEPARATES FROM HOLY GOD,” singing “Victory in Jesus” along with a crowd of […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Cheesesteak Nation

It wasn’t a very tough job, and nobody had to do it. It’s the evening of Thursday, June 16th, and I’m sitting in the last […]

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Pulse: Style: Personal Best: Ruth Bowen

If you’re a local designer with a pricey grasscloth or handpainted roll that needs to go up, Bowen is the pro on your speed dial. […]

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Pulse: 60 Second Critic

TV: Quite Frankly; ESPN2, Monday — Friday, 6:30 p.m.; B- Spend a few minutes watching Quite Frankly, the new sports talk show hosted by the […]

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Pulse: Quick Takes

Buy This Book Last April 8th, 50 of the world’s best female photographers spent 24 hours shooting women across the country. More than 200 of […]

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Pulse: Sports: Bird Power

In their contract battle with Terrell Owens, the Eagles have held to a pretty consistent line: They wouldn’t renegotiate T.O.’s deal because, well, an agreement […]

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Pulse: Power: How Not to Take a Compliment

In August, the New York Times ran a story on the front page of the Sunday Styles section about how cool Philadelphia is. Headlined “The […]

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Pulse: Power: Chaka’s Renee Problem

During Congressman Chaka Fattah’s year-long public dalliance with a mayoral candidacy, political insiders have mused about where his wife, NBC 10 anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah, fits […]

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Pulse: Olympics 2016: Q+A: Hugh Long

Last month, Hugh Long, ­Wachovia Bank’s Pennsylvania and Delaware CEO, agreed to help lead the campaign to bring the Olympics here in 2016. He’ll head […]

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Pulse: Player: Rosalind Remer

It wasn’t easy to woo Ros Remer away from teaching early American history at Moravian College, but Ben Franklin has always been a charmer. And […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Restaurants & Food

New BYOB: Marigold KitchenPhilly is America’s BYOB capital, and no newcomer is better than this one in West Philly’s Spruce Hill. Chef-owner Steven Cook cooks […]