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Summer Food: The Tastes of Summer: Corn

Exurban legend: We’ve heard about the farmer so fanatical about freshness that he won’t sell you corn unless your water’s already boiling. Pete’s Produce Farm […]

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Summer Food: The Tastes of Summer: Tomatoes

They have charming names like Arkansas Traveler, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, Cherokee Purple and White Wonder. Their colors range from dusky bronze to ghostly pale. […]

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Summer Food: The Tastes of Summer: Soft-Shell Crabs

This may be our favorite part of the delicious summer season: the moment when a crab molts its shell and the sweet meat can be […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic

DVD The Art of Vinyasa Flow Yoga Jennifer Schelter Available at yogaschelter.com; $20 If the phrase “chaturanga dandasana” isn’t part of your everyday vocabulary, this […]

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A.C. Journal: Hip Dreams

The Ascot Motel ought to be my favorite thing in Atlantic City right now. Opened in the 1950s and closed last year after a 40-foot […]

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Out and About: July

1. Sports Recreation Schuylkill Banks river kayak tours Get a good look at the Schuylkill River — one that’s a little different from the view […]

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Chatter: The Immodest Proposal

1. May be the only thing big enough, ever, to force SEPTA to improve its service and infrastructure. 2. Many of the physical amenities — […]

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Sports: Eagles Eyed

The Eagles’ 2006 season officially begins on July 20th, when training camp opens at Lehigh. And while it’s too early to judge how rookies and […]

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Culture: Lou Dobbs Wouldn’t Understand

When we heard recently that an elementary school in Cherry Hill had spent most of the past school year reading its morning announcements in both […]

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Philadelphian to Watch: July

WHO: Lobbyist/political operative Michael Karloutsos, 35, who, after running Paul Vallas’s unsuccessful campaign for governor of Illinois, moved to town to work with Vallas on […]

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Icons: The Numbers

The city’s recent proposal to return the eight-foot-six-inch bronze Rocky statue that once stood outside the Spectrum — given to Philadelphia by Sly Stallone upon […]

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The Snapshot: Pitchmen

WHERE: The Phillies’ bullpen, Citizens Bank Park. WHO: Brett Myers throwing warm-ups to catcher Carlos Ruiz. HOW THE BULLPEN IS LIKE A PRISON CELL: Lack […]

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On the Street: Pant Patrol

We may have to twiddle our thumbs forever till that no-smoking law officially goes through, but in the meantime, we’re instituting an all-out Bad Pants […]

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Shopping At … : Scarlet Fiorella

After running a Hoboken boutique for 11 years, Philly native Michele Giunta Cimillo is back in town with a new, ¬shoebox-sized home-and-child store. She’s named […]

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Off the Cuff July 2006

Every morning before I drive from Margate to Philadelphia, I have a compulsion to glance through the Atlantic City Press, which chronicles almost daily the […]