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Pulse: Chatter: Five Questions For … Pat Hines, Quizzo King

In honor of National Trivia Day on January 4th — what? You didn’t know that? — we query Pat Hines, who launched Philly’s thriving pub-quiz […]

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Travel: The Caribbean: Anguilla

Anguilla, a slender sliver of an island in the British West Indies, smells so good you want to bottle the air — it’s jasmine mixed […]

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Travel: The Caribbean: Curacao

Curaçao claimed independence from Holland last fall, and if the island follows typical Caribbean development trends, commercialism and U.S. tourism (Americans currently comprise just 13 […]

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Travel: The Caribbean: St. Martin

This well-developed, cosmopolitan island, with its two national faces — the French northern half of St. Martin and the Dutch southern part dubbed St. Maarten […]

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Good Life: The It Dog

Spend a short time in a tree-lined Philly neighborhood, and you’ll likely cross paths with a hipster-chic 20- or 30-something walking a 
pittie. Pit bulls […]

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Department: Mario Lanza Isn’t Dead Yet

“MARIO WOULD HAVE BEEN 89 THIS YEAR,” says Jeanette Frese, the treasurer and volunteer tour guide at the Mario Lanza Institute and Museum, on a […]

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Department: Is Darren Daulton Crazy?

DARREN DAULTON HAS A TOOTHACHE. Not just a dull annoying toothache. A four-alarm somebody-hand-me-a-gun dental calamity. “Didn’t sleep last night, nothing,” he says when he […]

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Feature: The Problems of the Post-Racial Politician Operating in an Economic Downturn and Facing an Electorate Still Largely Segregated Along Lines of Class and Skin Color

ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, at the end of a week when John Street told anyone who would listen that Michael Nutter was an Oreo, the Mayor […]

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Allen Iverson: Fallen Star

I’m operating on extreme hope. I am in Instanbul. All I know is that Allen Iverson 
is here — in this city of 13 million, […]

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Off the Cuff: January 2011

I’VE BEEN CONCERNED lately about just how far American students have fallen behind the rest of the world in academic achievement. But there’s a companion […]

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What We Want: Urban Cabin

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The Philly Mag 50: The Best Restaurants Even We Can’t Get Into

What restaurant has plenty of tables, but not a single seat for you? That would be 1862 by Martin Hamann, the to-die-for restaurant in the […]

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The Philly Mag 50: Methodology

For the third time in four years, we’ve assembled our definitive list of the 50 best restaurants. As with previous rankings, we adhered to one […]

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The Philly Mag 50: Hall of Fame: Le Bec-Fin

Since July, when Georges Perrier put Le Bec-Fin’s building up for sale, there’s been plenty of speculation about when, exactly, the iconic restaurant’s famed dessert […]

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Travel: The Caribbean: St. Kitts

There are few things more breathtaking than a landscape where the ocean marries the mountains. The island of St. Kitts, with its British flair and […]