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The Essential Shore

ROLL DOWN THE CAR WINDOWS By Carrie Denny When you ease back on the gas after stopping at the Great Egg toll, you can smell […]

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The Good Life: 5 Things to Love This Month: Sneaker Immortality

Those of us who ran (and, to be completely honest, nearly won) Broad Street last month briefly considered bronzing our beloved Asics. Instead, we’ll send […]

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Good Life: Trendspotting: Local Style Blogs

Philly food fanatics aren’t the only scenesters blogging about anything and everything around town (shhh … don’t tell their bosses): Lately, steadfast design junkies have […]

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BOP Spotlight: Cheap Modern Art

As Center City apartments continue their morph from trinity to loft, expansive, blindingly white walls from Fishtown to South Philly cry out for a respite […]

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The Most Famous Weatherman in Philadelphia

THEY WERE TALL and short, fat and thin, old and young. They wore army fatigues and crisp suits and rhinestone-encrusted t-shirts that read “Queen Bitch” […]

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Taste: Sweet Cherries

What they are: They’re not the artificially rosy maraschino cherries found in too many cocktails, nor are they tart pie cherries. They’re just deliciously sweet, […]

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Taste: Where We’re Eating: June 2007

DUNE RESTAURANT You’d think sweet, casual BYOBs like Dune would be a dime a dozen in Shore towns. After all, the formula makes perfect sense. […]

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Taste: Eat This Now: Popsicles

Forget the teeth-staining orange, grape and cherry twin pops of Philadelphia childhood. The cream and fruit bars at Kennett Square’s La Michoacana have only their […]

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The Good Life: The 411: Beach Reads

No, these aren’t books to take to the beach. (That status is reserved for paperbacks with pink covers or the words "By John Grisham" on […]

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The Good Life: Quest: Smaller Is Better

Sayonara, SUVs. Whether you’re a commuter, a Center City dweller, or just a sufferer from Gas-Price Anxiety Syndrome, you may finally be thinking that big, […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: June 2007

CINEMA The Pearl Theater at Avenue North 1600 North Broad Street; 215-763-7700 By Jihan Thompson The Pearl is the first new movie house North Philly […]

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Pulse: Social Diary_The Battle of Waterloo (Gardens)

Last year, my husband John and I were at a party when he ran into a banker he knows. We met the banker’s beautiful wife, […]

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Pulse: Chatter: 5 Stupid Questions for Allen Rothenberg

Everyone in Philadelphia knows Allen Rothenberg — “THE Injury Lawyer” — thanks to his barrage of cheesy TV ads. We caught up with the 67-year-old […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Nearly Nobody Reads the Bulletin

Less than three years after reclusive millionaire stock trader Tom Rice hijacked the Bulletin name and hyped the rebirth of the storied broadsheet, the “new” […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Kill Phil

Is it time to take out Punxsutawney Phil? The ubiquitous rodent — who each February 2nd draws media hordes upstate for Groundhog Day — failed […]