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BOP Spotlight: Urban Pet Sitters

As cute as the critters they care for, Carrie and Lindsay Maria have taken less than a year to become the speed-dialed sitters of choice […]

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BOP Spotlight: Family Salon

There are no race-car-shaped barber’s chairs at Kimberly and David Bond’s indie-rocker-ish salon. There are, however, Boogaboos — squeaky and soft salon mascots whose mantra […]

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The Good Life: Personal Flower Shopping

I once had a boyfriend who gave me a birthday bouquet arranged in a colander. It was like two presents in one. I once had […]

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The Good Life: City ‘Scapes

Three takes on the urban getaway NEW YORK Stay: Sleek and minimal, the London NYC (151 West 54th Street, 866-690-2029; thelondonnyc.com) is all-suites, with oversize […]

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The Good Life: 5 Things to Love This Month: Insider Art

How to find the coolest under-the-radar shops? Walk one block away from a retail district — Chinatown, for example — to find a place — […]

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The Good Life: Photo Facials

Lucky for all of us whose skin could use some lovin’, Rescue Rittenhouse Spa Lounge has added capillary- disappearing, pore- Lucky for all of us […]

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The Good Life: 5 Things to Love This Month: Photo Facials

Lucky for all of us whose skin could use some lovin’, Rescue Rittenhouse Spa Lounge has added capillary-disappearing, pore-shrinking, rosacea-reducing photo facials to its spa […]

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AC Now: The Shorts

Buying swim trunks can be a tricky business. It's not easy steering clear of excessive patterns, elastic waistbands and too-tight inseams. Our advice: Seek out […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Tours: Sound About Philly Podcast

I was skeptical when I heard about this latest offer to show me the city as I’ve never seen it before blah blah blah. I’m […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: CD: Urban Angel

(Dorado Records; $12.99) With the re-release of her underappreciated 2006 debut, there’s hope that a legion of new fans will discover this Fishtown transplant, With […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: The University and Urban Revival

By Judith Rodin, (University of Pennsylvania Press; $34.95) If you’ve ever mused, “Gee, university president would be a pretty cool gig,” Rodin’s urban-studies memoir will […]

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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: There Goes the Gayborhood

A battle for naming rights pits retail kings against local queens This spring, James McManaman, co-owner of the Absolute Abstract gallery on South 13th Street, […]

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The Rebirth of North Broad

Can a Porsche-driving developer, a renowned restaurateur, a septuagenarian mortician and, um, a dentist save this neighborhood? You can always see gentrification happening. The new, […]

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Taste: Seoul, Upper Darby

A food lover goes in search of authenticity I had noticed Pojangmacha before. Sitting in a former White Castle building in a lonely Upper Darby […]