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Pulse: Other People’s Money

The Pennsylvania Treasury Department is currently holding around $1 billion in unclaimed cash and property. While the state is supposed to make some effort to […]

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Home: Pressing On

One looks like a child’s pinwheel, another resembles an impish face, a third suggests a mottled stingray seen through rose-colored glass. Whether a purple cosmos, […]

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Pulse: Exit Strategies

Those looking for clues to the city’s big political guessing game — how many of the six quasi-announced Democratic mayoral candidates will still be candidates […]

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From the Editor: June 2006

Run, Carl, run. That’s been the sentiment around our office ever since Carl Singley sat down with us for the interview that appears on page […]

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Home: Bay Window

The Philadelphia businessman has lived all over the world, but he remembers exactly where he was standing four years ago when he first saw this […]

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Off the Cuff: June 2006

I know it sounds ridiculous, but recently I’ve been thinking about Jimmy Carter. Back in the ’70s, during the first oil crisis, Carter (who was […]

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Exit Interview: Gay Talese

Exit Interview: It’s a pleasure to speak with one of the forefathers of magazine journalism. Should I call you Mr. Talese? Gay? Daddy? Gay Talese: […]

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Taste: Edible Art

THE FLOUR POT COOKIE BOOK, FROM ­AMBLER-BASED BAKER-ENTREPRENEURS MARGIE AND ABBEY GREENBERG, IS 100-PLUS PAGES OF MARTHA STEWART-LIKE ­INSPIRATION. THEIR COOKIES RE-CREATE THREE-TIERED WEDDING CAKES, […]

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At Your Service: From Drab to Fab

She was my favorite chair when I was a kid — I would wake up extra early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons and snuggle […]

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Taste: Where We’re Eating July 2006

Royal Flush The main sources of light at South Philly’s Royal Tavern (937 East Passyunk Avenue, 215-389-6694; royaltavern.com) seem to be the single TV by […]

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Harrah’s Big Hurrah

First came the shopping. Then came the rest- aurants. Now comes First came the shopping. Then came the restaurants. Now comes the pampering: A.C. has […]

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BOP Spotlight: Eyewear

Blink too long, and you might walk right by Margot & Camille, all tiny and tucked practically under the Ben Franklin Bridge. Inside the yellow-walled […]

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Serving Peace

The Polished Plate — that new-ish, glass- enclosed corner The Polished Plate — that new-ish, glass-enclosed corner shop along Haddonfield’s bucolic stretch of Kings Highway […]

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The Good Life: Homegrown: Taking Flight

Bright, sturdy, youthful, Philly-made TRKFLD (stands for “track and field”) bags seem to be everywhere. Find them in the window of Old City’s Deep Sleep. […]

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Home: Blades of Glory

It’s the word-association game. Ready? Quick — I say “grass,” and you say … “green,” right? Rick Darke wants to change that. Darke, who was […]