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Taste: Eat This Now: Pie in the Sky

This Thanksgiving, local food-aid organization MANNA will Strike It Rich. That’s the name of this decadent pie, its tender crust filled with cheesecake and topped […]

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Pulse: Rip-Off of the Month

Buying tickets to this month’s Police concert at the Wachovia Center? For many shows at the Wachovia, ComcastTix is now the official source for tix, […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Don’t Call Me Coach: A Lesson Plan for Life

Don’t Call Me Coach: A Lesson Plan for LifeBy Phil Martelli (Camino Books; $24.95) “When my Jewish friends refer to a ‘mensch,’” writes St. Joseph’s […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Best of World Cafe

The Best of World CafeBy David Dye (Running Press; $19.95) David Dye’s World Cafe is one of Philly’s underappreciated cultural gems. The show, produced at […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It’s Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaFX, Thursdays at 10 p.m. If Seinfeld and Arrested Development gave birth to a love child, it would be It’s Always […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Suzanne Roberts Theatre

The Philadelphia Theatre Company last month graduated from its cramped home at Plays and Players to the brand-new $25 million Suzanne Roberts Theatre, a 370-seat […]

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Pulse: Sam Katz’s Power Lunch: Many Tasty Returns

For 93 years, Tasty Baking — known colloquially around town as Tastykake — has baked the cupcakes and pies that generations of Philadelphians have claimed […]

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Features: Best Places to Work: The New Philly Workplace

We know — it seems like you work all the time. But fear not: We found some local companies that make the office feel a […]

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Good Life: Prime Finds: Totally Clutch

This glam fold-over clutch, made from buttery-soft, new-car-smelling leathers and suedes, is totally me — and the brainchild of Willingboro resident Terina McKinney, who’s added […]

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Good Life: Prime Finds: Sweet Treat

I can’t bake. But I can trick Thanksgiving guests into thinking I can by making my home smell fresh-out-of-the-oven apple-pie delish with this cutie candle. […]

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Health: Put to the Test: Instant Oatmeal

Is your go-to breakfast as good for you as you think? It’s getting to be that time of year when the temps finally start to […]

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The Last Resort

WITH SYMBOLISM THAT WAS RIPE AND THICK AS THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL IN JUNE, THE OLD POCONOS DIED NEAR THE END OF LAST CENTURY WITH A […]

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Lost in Translation

Joey Vento started a big brouhaha by demanding that his customers order in English. But the reason why he did runs deeper than you might […]

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Features: Mystery at Rohm & Haas

There is good science, and there is bad science. The distance between the two is an infinitesimal divide. THERE IS GOOD science, and there is […]

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Departments: Society: Score-chester!

‘‘It’s the true walk of shame,” says a guy-about-town we’ll call Mr. Horndog. He’s harking back to his single days in the early ’90s, when […]