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Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Hand to Foot

These gorgeous handmade shoes prove that Italians age shoes as well as wines: The mini-works of art are kept on a mold for four weeks, […]

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A.C. Now: Déjà Dress

Remember when Banana Republic sold teensy A-line dresses made of stretchy wool (like 10 years ago)? They’re doing it again, with puffier sleeves, paler colors […]

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Keen to Be Green

More than 100 exhibitors will throng to South Street to demo new ways to reduce, reuse and recycle through music, food, art and fashion. Ever […]

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Why Do We Care So Much?

Paul Campise is 76 years old, a retired court reporter who lives on Main Street in Moorestown, with a summer place on Long Beach Island. […]

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High Steaks: Table Scraps

As a longtime food critic for Esquire, John Mariani sits down at the best tables in America for a living. Given Philadelphia’s current food-crazed state, […]

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High Steaks: So Really, How’s the Food?

While the lawyers debate what, exactly, Craig LaBan ate, we sent two visiting food critics to see how the steaks in question rate. Our outside […]

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Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Reporting Live

Junior’s first day of school deserves to be documented. In HD. Directly to a DVD. Junior’s first day of school deserves to be documented. In […]

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Good Life: Prime Finds: Back to Cool: Beyond the Brown Bag

Paul Frank’s lunch boxes are so cool and tough, they’re like insurance against lunchroom bullies. Paul Frank’s lunch boxes are so cool and tough, they’re […]

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Art on the Edge

Go to extremes with the 11th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe Starting tomorrow, some 2,000 artists are expected to entertain, enlighten and […]

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Fall Travel Guide: Custom Weekends: Try the Mud Wraps and Mysticism­

After my early-morning flight and drive through the Arizona desert, I’m looking forward to drifting off during the Sedona Clay Wrap I’ve booked at the […]

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Power: Reformer R.I.P.

Paul Vallas was the most effective Philadelphia schools chief in a generation. So why did he leave for New Orleans? The story of his downfall […]

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Exit Interview: Ali Larter

Cherry Hill’s hot, vibrant-haired Heroes star comes to theaters this month in Resident Evil: Extinction When we first interviewed Ali Larter, she was best known […]

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Loco Parentis: Minority Report

I WANTED A boy. I’ve admitted as much to my daughter Marcy, my firstborn. When I was pregnant with her, I longed to give my […]

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Receipt: Larry Mendte

A week of receipts from Larry Mendte, CBS 3 Eyewitness News co-anchor. DAY ONE Toll (E-ZPass): $2, Atlantic City ExpresswayToll (E-ZPass): $.70, Garden State Parkway […]

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The Eagles: Rotisserie Birds

Brian Westbrook, RBTake him: 1st RoundAfter busting out for 1,217 rushing yards and 77 receptions last year, the Villanova product comes into this year ranked […]