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Pulse: Chatter: Politics: Checks and Balances

In an effort to answer the Dems’ fund-raising  tsunami this election cycle, a feisty conservative group is  tapping some local heavyweights for cash. Edwin Starr […]

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Pulse: Philadelphicon: The Light Show

A city’s tradition that endures after 50 years. It was as much about the journey as it was the show: dressing up, the train ride […]

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Fall Getaways: Custom Weekends: Spend Some Quality Time “Together”

I did feel a slight pang of guilt as the freshening wind shot my sail-kayak through the marina’s mouth and past my paddle-bound wife and […]

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Health: Thanksgiving Tips for Staying Trim

Eat your favorite holiday treats without having to unbutton those pants Look, it’s the holidays. Nobody in their right mind should be dieting right now. […]

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The Perfect Low-Carb Side Dish

Cool, fall weather brings with it one of my favorite foods: spaghetti squash. When baked and scraped from its shell, the flesh of this yellow […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Save the Earth

Help save the Earth and get paid for recycling. What could be better? Plant SomethingSince 1974, Philadelphia Green, a program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Aid the Elderly

Donate Your LeftoversReally! Aid For Friends provides needy, isolated shut-ins with free daily home-cooked meals. When you join as a cook, you’ll be given aluminum […]

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Politics: Cleaning House

At 34, an Abington reformer is Harrisburg’s fastest-rising young star. But is there a place for Jimmy Stewart in Pennsylvania’s smoke-filled back rooms? LAST DECEMBER […]

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How to Be a Better Philadelphian: Rescue an Animal

Save Whiskers, Adopt a pet, or donate to PAWS Philadelphia. Take Your Pet to Visit SomeonePals for Life’s pet visitation program brings unconditional love, warm […]

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Some (Damn) Goode Advice!

Here’s Wilson Goode’s guidance on some classic (but questionable) Philly behaviors. Hey Mr. Mayor: My grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, passed away 14 years ago, and […]

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Departments: 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 […]

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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 […]

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AC Now: Dining: Private Dining

Knife & Fork Inn: This vaunted restaurant’s year-old third floor “wine room,” all handsome hardwood and exposed brick, looks out toward the ocean.Seats: Up to […]

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Health: Thanksgiving: Tweaking Turkey Day

Don’t banish healthy eating to the back burner this Thanksgiving Pilgrims, Indians, friends, family … Thanksgiving celebrates many things, but what takes center stage in […]

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Health: Thanksgiving: Trot Before You Gobble

Before you hit the road to Grandma’s, pound the pavement at a local Thanksgiving Day race For many of my high-school classmates (and me, too), […]