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The Good Life: Strike!

Adults are making like li'l ones at Philly's luxe lanes If rented shoes, drinks served in plastic pitchers, urethane balls and neon-lit gutters summon fond […]

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60-Second Critic: Filmadelphia

Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a City’s Movies By Irv Slifkin (Middle Atlantic Press; $17.95) There’s something about seeing your hometown on the silver screen that […]

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The Good Life: Reading Retreats

Still wound up from the holidays? Head to the Inn at Lambertville Station for a reading retreat — sit by the Still wound up from […]

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BOP Spotlight: Big Wine List

Stepping outside the large-list formula — breadth, depth, high prices and trophies — Nineteen presents a globe-trotting mix of more than 200 selections to please […]

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Fork in the Road

If Philadelphia really wants to be a player on the national food scene, we have a choice to make. There's a secret in the city's […]

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Contrarian: A Burning Question

What’s the smoking ban in bars really about? Finally, on the fourth try, Philadelphia City Council passed a smoking ban in bars and restaurants that […]

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Views: Radical Departure

Is Daniel Pipes, the country's most controversial Middle East scholar, mellowing? The first thing that strikes you about Daniel Pipes is his size. He's six […]

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A.C. Now: Putting on the Dog

Strangely spring-like weather throwing a wrench into Fido's wardrobe? Keep pup's sweaters packed away. Send him out for his morning constitutionals in a sensible Burberry […]

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A&E: A Pip Off the Old Block

An exuberant revival of Pippin opens at the Forrest Alas, that old storybook struggle to find one's rightful place in this wicked world is a […]

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Style: Sales and Deals 05-31-07

Take a Test Drive for Cancer Research, Lloyd Hall, 1 Boathouse Row, Fairmount Park : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. : August 4 SugarHabit Warehouse […]

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Wedding Fashion: The American Dream

A handsome groom, a perfect dress, a beautiful wedding by the sea: If you plan it, they will come … A handsome groom, a perfect […]

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Market Report: What Lies Beneath

There are two kinds of homes: the kind with a pile of shoes at the front door and the kind without. If you came from […]

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Ask the Experts: Boldly Going Where No Dress Has Gone Before

Q: When I envision the perfect wedding dress, I don’t see white. I’m dreaming in a purple haze! Dare I boldly break with tradition? A: […]

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Quick Trip: Baltimore

By the end of this month, assuming all of the stars align properly, Suchita (that’s my wife) and I will have made settlement on our […]

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The Good Life: Relax!

Need a winter (um, summer) break? Check in for a stint of spa pampering — and more — at a roadtrip-close resorts For the ’Burbanites […]