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The Good Life: Health: Backs of the Future
Two years ago, a trip on the stairs left my husband with chronic, sharp pains shooting from his back down along his left leg. An […]
Eat This Now: Drinking Chocolate
This hot chocolate isn’t Swiss Miss, or even high-end Schokinag. Served in a delicate demitasse cup and made with three different types of the dark […]
Wisdom: Tuesdays With Frannie
It looked like a clear career move when Penn hoops coach Fran Dunphy left the Ivy League for Temple. But the change really had to […]
The Good Life: The Mix: Q&A: Gavin McKay
Fusion’s workout plan will get you off the couch It’s cold — really cold — and you don’t need to be beach-ready for at least […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: Last Team Standing
Last Team Standing By Matthew Algeo (Da Capo Press; $26) In 1943, the National Football League faced a serious problem: Most of its best players […]
Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Creative Buzz November 2006
Penn political science prof Ian S. Lustick questions White House policies in Trapped in the War on Terror (Penn Press; $24.95). … South Jersey’s Christian […]
Taste: Spirits: Looking for the Next Buzz Aldrin
Can Stephen Starr set the cocktail standard in the new A.C.? Though post-Prohibition Atlantic City was a hot spot of cocktail culture through to the […]
Taste: Raise a Glass to the Newest Restaurant Row
It’s Phoenixville. At least, the guys from Iron Hill hope it is Last month, entrepreneurs Kevin Finn, Kevin Davies and Mark Edelson opened the doors […]
The Good Life: Travel: The In-Laws Are Coming!
When the Center City hotel standbys fill up, these B&Bs are perfect for holiday guests Hamanassett Bed & Breakfast Innkeeper Ashley Mon has spent the […]
The Good Life: Obsession: Japanese Powder Brushes
Thanksgiving may celebrate this country, but our favorite toy this month takes its inspiration from across the world: The new Kabuki Artisan Brushes from NARS […]
Taste: E-Groceries
Why go to the supermarket when it will come to you? Acmemarkets.com How to: Register free at Acmemarkets.com, choose an available two-hour window for delivery […]
Spring Travel: Warning: Kid Zone
We arrived later than we’d expected—seven-ish on Saturday evening, having spent what seemed like six days caught in a Poconos traffic jam—and so we immediately […]
The Good Life: The Mix: Look We Love: Hats
Straight-up skullcaps are so two minutes ago (wink). This fall, have fun with Straight-up skullcaps are so two minutes ago (wink). This fall, have fun […]
The Trouble With Harry Jay Katz
It’s a sultry summer evening, and the pulse of Philadelphia night life is flat-lining. By dusk on this Monday, most of the dwellers of America’s […]
Rick Santorum: “I Was Basically Pro-Choice All My Life, Until I Ran for Congress”
IN THE SUMMER OF 1989, Rick Santorum and a fellow associate at the Pittsburgh law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart left work to drive to […]