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Quest: Start Yer Engines!

It’s summer, and you know you want to take your top off. So we drove four new convertibles a gajillion miles to help you do […]

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Top Doctors 2006: Profiles

Heart Disease Harvey Waxman Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Cardiologist Harvey Waxman is surprisingly upbeat about American heart health, considering our cheeseburger intake. That’s because Waxman […]

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Summer Food: The Tastes of Summer

Fireworks, the Orchestra at the Mann, and a week at the Shore. It’s more than 90-degree temperatures and Friday-night traffic. Summer in Philadelphia is the […]

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What to Drink: Louis Latour “1er Cru—La Grande Roche,” 2002; Montagny, Burgundy, F

This month's stunning PLCB Chairman’s Select has three things going for it. This stunning wine has three things going for it: The white wines of […]

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Eat This Now: Backyard Barbecue, Barclay Prime-Style

It’s the weekend, and you have that most irresistible of fair-weather urges: to barbecue. For a mere $350, Barclay Prime will provide you and five […]

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Eat This Now: Grits

The first time chef Alison Barshak drove to the World Grits Festival in St. George, South Carolina, she returned to her Blue Bell BYOB with […]

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Look We Love: Summer Jogging Gear

Enough with the Rocky-inspired running looks, people. It’s time to update your workout wardrobe. Enough with the Rocky-inspired running looks, people. We’re partial to beat-up […]

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Taste: Almost Osetra

With the export ban on Caspian Sea caviar extended, here's what you'll find in its place on area menus. The ban on the export of […]

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The Tastes of Summer: Grill Some Meat

Put down the knife, get out the blender and do your marinades right. A long soak in a simple marinade can transform a dry, bland […]

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The Good Life: Obsession July 2006

There’s something so-summer-sexy about a watch tan-line, and the one we want on our wrist this month has to be water-resistant and sporty, like Baume […]

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Local Talent: Anthony Smyrski & Dan Murphy

Contrary to its name, Megawords, the photo magazine started last year by graphic designer Anthony Smyrski, 26, and his artist friend Dan Murphy, 30, doesn’t […]

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60-Second Critic: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

By Ken Kalfus (Ecco; $24.95) If you greeted those post-9/11 trend stories about the small-scale considerateness and minor acts of blah-blah it had fostered with […]

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Ask April July 2006

Q: We want to celebrate out anniversary at a romantic restaurant with music and possibly dancing. We will be staying in the Rittenhouse area. —Nancy […]

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A.C. Now New Borgata Restaurants

Bobby Flay (pictured), Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina will all be at the Borgata this weekend to open their cash cows — did we say […]

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A.C. Now

It's not the grand debut you've been expecting, but the first dozen luxury shops at The Pier have quietly opened. Go this weekend to exercise […]