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Home: Shop: Atlantic City & the Shore

It used to be the place to see and be seen, but since the days IT USED TO BE THE PLACE to see and be […]

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Travel: Island Hopping: On the Cusp

This 27-mile-long Windward Island used to be one of the less developed Caribbean spots. That's about to change. Thanks to ultra-resorts going up in every […]

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Pulse: Steel Pier Helicopter

At the very tip of Steel Pier sits an impossibly tiny Robinson R44 Clipper, which will take you on a wobbly tour of Atlantic City’s […]

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PM This Month Middle 07.09.07

Booze czar Jonathan Newman miraculously made state stores customer- friendly, then quit in a snit when Governor Rendell undermined him by appointing a political hack […]

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Travel: A Sweet Escape

The first thing my eyes set upon when I enter the suite at the Hotel Hershey is the bed It is king-sized and magnificent, draped […]

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Exit Interview: Jim Cramer

After seeing Jim Cramer scream and stomp through his nightly financial advice inferno on CNBC, Mad Money (think Wall $treet Week meets Jerry Springer), one […]

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Taste: No More Meatloaf

When David Ansill got his first cooking job at Queen Village’s Judy’s, serving up plateloads of meatloaf and apple pie, he never thought he would […]

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Taste: On a (Spring) Roll

Spring rolls were once the sole domain of Asian restaurants, with fillings limited to julienned carrots, cabbage and wood ear fungi, interlaced with pork or […]

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Taste: Seeing Red

Like all fine wine grapes, zinfandel has European origins; its roots were traced recently to southern Italy’s primitivo variety, which originated along Croatia’s Dalmatian coast. […]

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Taste: Tea Time

The shelves of the small shop on Rittenhouse Square are dotted with neat, informative signs organizing the merchandise by variety and geography. Behind the register, […]

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Taste: Choppy Seas

Estia quite literally puts fish on a pedestal. The cavernous Greek restaurant, which faces the Academy of Music from Locust Street, packs its finny finest […]

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Taste: True Tapas

We have placed our orders at Amada, after lengthy debate about the more than 60 tapas possibilities, and are ready to explore the artistry of […]

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Taste: Cape May Salt Oysters

Though often thought of as a cool, relaxing summer food, oysters store up sugars in the frigid winter waters and are actually sweeter, plumper and […]

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The Dancing Master Part Two

IN A MATTER OF MONTHS, the Korean press had begun to get word that all was not well at the Foundation headquarters in Sosa. A […]

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The Ultimate Philly Face-Off

WHO’S THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME? You know how it goes. You’re at Dirty Frank’s, minding your own business, when some moron starts spouting off […]