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Taste: Shopping List August 2006

Goodies you can buy from your favorite local restaurants. Jams from Pif David Ansill isn’t Pif’s only chef. His wife, Catherine, turns out beautiful jams […]

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20th Annual Rum and Reggae Caribbean Street Party

The White Dog Café transforms its stretch of Sansom into a coconut-infused tropical fest this Friday for the 20th annual Rum and Reggae Caribbean Street […]

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Taste: Make Mine a Blue Lagoon

Ready-to-drink cocktails bring happy hour home Cocktails were once indulgences reserved for nights out on the town. Continental bartenders whipped up flavorful creations one couldn’t […]

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Trendspotting: Local Baby Gear

Everywhere we look lately, local moms and creative types are banging out lines of hipster baby clothes. Our favorites inside. Everywhere we look lately, local […]

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Taste: In Search of … Salsa

While the backyard grill is heating up, chips and salsa are the perfect antidote for growling stomachs. We blind-tasted 25 locally made salsas to bring […]

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The Good Life: Obsession August 2006

We’re already having panic attacks about summer winding down. Our therapy? Packing in tons of BBQs, with our favorite movable music player in tow. This […]

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Seussical the Musical

Oh, the people you’ll see when Dr. Seuss’s beloved characters come to life in the fast-paced “Seussical the Musical”! The Cat in the Hat, Yertle […]

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Taste: Wine Time

New wine bar Vintage advances the city’s growing grape trend Wine bars began popping as a national trend in recent years, but the phenomenon bypassed […]

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B.O.P in A.C.: Hot, Stringy and Delicious

Tucked behind the high-stakes table games of the Showboat’s Asian gaming room, the Royal Noodle House is a quick-service bistro that channels a mod Shanghai […]

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The Mod Squad

The owners of a midcentury modern house on the Main Line open up for a summer cocktail party that is part pop art, part pool […]

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Wartime: Illustrations by Norman Rockwell

“Wartime: Illustrations by Norman Rockwell,” currently on display at the Atwater Kent Museum, brings together 34 of the illustrator’s famous Saturday Evening Post covers depicting […]

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Cravings: Melon Madness

Ninety-plus-degree temperatures demand watermelon. We’ve always loved ours icy-cold — sprinkled with sea salt, spiked with sweet Riesling, or milkshaked at Nifty Fifty's. But this […]

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A.C. Now: Chill Cocktails

Frozen Tundra 32 Degrees (Quarter at the Tropicana) Stoli Orange, melon liqueur, triple sec, lime juice and orange juice. ($10) Strawberry Vanilla VOMO B-Bar (The […]

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Taste: Remember Shrimp Cocktail?

Maria Gallagher reviews Nineteen, the stunningly perched restaurant that's challenging an era of avant-garde cooking with back-to-the-classics seafood. The architectural splendor and soothing champagne-and-cream color […]

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Taste: How Philly Eats August 2006

33% of you think City Council shoud ban foie gras