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Pulse: Chatter: Real Estate: Bart’s Big Bet

Blatstein leads the makeover of Northern Liberties into an enclave of chic urbanity with an Old City cocktail scene… When Bart Blatstein recently announced his […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Cinema: A New Philadelphians?

A Main Line novelist’s feisty daughter is fighting to preserve his legacy — if she can get Paul Newman’s help Last year marked the 50th […]

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Pulse: Philadelphicon: The ’85 Wildcats

Rollie Massimino and his team didn’t just win in ’85… They inspired underdogs everywhere. Long before March Madness, they defined just how far under an […]

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Why Are Men Who Build Skyscrapers Afraid of This Woman?

Find out who’s not afraid to call a much-hyped downtown condo “a Frankenstein mix of historical elements” SURROUNDED BY STEEL AND GLASS, she stands in […]

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Ideas: Run for Your Life

Anne Mahlu passed up a job with Comcast to follow her strange vision—help homeless men by getting them to jog. EARLY IN THE morning of […]

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Fall Travel Guide: Custom Weekends: I Need a Beach Butler

Ocho Rios, Jamaica It was in the spa that I realized: Not only was the setting of Royal Plantation as improbably upscale as some glossy […]

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Health: Kettlebells: From Russia, With (Tough) Love

Russian athletes and Hollywood A-listers swear by these unusual — and gut-busting — free weights It’s only five minutes in and I can already see […]

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Travel: Just Breathe

Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, Stowe, VT Two and a half months from walking down the aisle, fatigued by tax law (him) and wedding planning […]

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Health: Late-Night Lotus

Forget the bars and hit the mat ’til midnight This Friday, while everyone else is either at home on the couch or tossing back yet […]

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Health: V-Day: Open, Heart

Try this yoga pose before heading out with your honey on V-day   Saturday morning I was sweating it out with a class at Power […]

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Domain: Projects: Posy Up

Effortless DIY arrangements (that look florist-delivered) 10-minute idea: Perfect for quickly prettying up a bedside table. To do: Wrap vase in cut-to-size bark and secure […]

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Home Spring 2008: Domain: Shopping: Grand Openings

Age of Content The ever-antique-obsessed Main Line can now get its fix of eclectic period furnishings, French chateau shutters and shoulder-high candle pedestals at Lisa […]

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Home: Editor’s Letter

Remember when practicing environmental awareness — or, in today’s lingo, being green — was un-fun? It meant shopping in cramped, musty, flour-floored natural food markets […]

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Column: Art-Buying 101

Fear not, young collector. Getting past that feeling of being overwhelmed by a gallery and possible break-the-wallet prices is step one. Step two is taking […]

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Fuji Review: Beyond Sushi

At the new Fuji, chef Masaharu Ito reminds us what Japanese cuisine is really about.     Too many foodies take the narrow view of […]