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Coupling: It’s not me, it’s you
“I’M ONLY TELLING YOU this because you are a horrible person and you’ll understand,” said my friend Rose. She had just returned from Thanksgiving with […]
Contrarian: Springtime for Santorum
Last year, when Senator Rick Santorum published his anti-liberal, anti-feminist, anti-gay manifesto It Takes a Family, a lot of political pundits were stunned by his […]
The Good Life: Winter Spa-tacular
PHILADELPHIA 1: Winter Body Renewal at Adolf Biecker Spa & Salon This full-body exfoliation includes a mini-facial and Vichy shower, too. The vibe: Total. Utter. […]
The Good Life: Sun Direct
BERMUDA By Blake Miller Why: Barely a two-hour flight, and you’re walking on petal-pink sand beaches or taking in the other manicured charms of this […]
The Madness of John Chaney
HOW YOU START IS HOW YOU FINISH. The old man loves little sayings that capture the whole deal, and he sprinkles them through practice on […]
Media: John Grogan Likes It Ruff
ON A TUESDAY on the cusp of the New Year, a cloud of existential angst drifted over the newsroom at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Twothousand-five had […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: February 2006
AD CAMPAIGNS Comcastic! By Maureen Tkacik Once in a great while there comes an ad campaign I’ll wait through hours of mindless television in vague, […]
Pulse: Local Talent: Linda Goss
It was clear to Linda Goss, long before Mayor Wilson Goode declared her the official storyteller of the City of Philadelphia, that telling stories was […]
Pulse: Social Diary: “It’s Casual!”
Not long ago, John and I were invited over for dinner by two well-connected Gladwyne tastemakers. It was a Thursday night, so it wouldn’t be […]
Pulse: Let Them Eat Cookies
When Amanda Bennett came to the Inquirer in 2003, reporters were excited by their new editor’s résumé: a career at the Wall Street Journal, authorship […]
Pulse: Liberal U.
Long before Grover Norquist and Karl Rove became GOP superstars, they were trained in the political arts by Morton Blackwell, who now heads the Leadership […]
Pulse: Who Will Buy Ardrossan?
Since the death of beloved society stalwart Robert Montgomery Scott last October, Ardrossan watchers wonder: What will happen to his Villanova estate, which is owned […]
Pulse: Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?
Back in December, Paul Vallas was proud to announce that Philadelphia test scores were up for the fourth consecutive year, a gold star on his […]
Off the Cuff: February 2006
Valentine’s Day is the 14th of this month, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about one of my lost loves. This love affair began […]
Let Him Entertain You
Comcast’s new president of programming could maybe use a beer right now. He is sitting in a sterile conference room on the ninth floor of […]