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Kitchens You’ll Covet: Arts & Crafts

The owners of a classic 1920s Arts & Crafts-style house on a tree-lined street in suburban Narberth waited 20 years to redo their kitchen — […]

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Second Helpings: Amazing Kitchens You’ll Covet

Four kitchens — in Narberth, Fitler Square, Wayne and Chestnut Hill — receive note-perfect second-time-around renovations by local designers and architects. Turn the page for […]

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Real Wedding: Page + Mac

Now here’s a groom who knows how to plan. On Valentine’s Day 2008, Page Schmucker returned to the Doylestown home she shared with Mac Small […]

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Pulse: Chatter: That’s Boss

“My boss said, ‘If you’re not happy here, quit.’ I quit the next day and moved back to Philadelphia.”  — Steve Duross, former Key West, […]

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The Good Life: The Look: Fleetwood Magnificent

From KOP to Rittenhouse, fall fashion feels like it’s 1977, and Stevie and Co. are again taking the stage at the Spectrum.

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The Bicycle Diaries

DAY ONE: Equipped with my brand-new helmet (Kmart, $14.99, sleek metallic blue) and not-so-new bike (neighbor’s garage sale, $20, unfortunate shade of yellow), I pedal […]

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Business: Traveling Man Hal Rosenbluth’s Next Act

“Is this car going to explode?” wonders Hal Rosenbluth, steering a rented beige Cadillac down Highway 840 outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on a blazingly hot […]

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Emanuel Freeman: The Man Who Duped City Hall

“Miss Rogers, there’s flies, there’s flies.” “What? What are you talking about?” Sherri Rogers (not her real name) figured the girl in the back of […]

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John M. Maris

When the going gets tough, the tough get … iPhone applications, evidently. That’s the game plan for mega-developer John Westrum, whose business took a McMansion-size […]

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Robert N. Baldassano

IN CONCERTClass ActsR&B/gospel lady Mavis Staples — as in the Staple Singers — visits World Cafe Live (10/4); the Academy of Music welcomes folk legend […]

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David A. Piccoli

Everyone is pissed off at the unions. Their greed — from teachers unions to government workers to labor unions in this city — has reached […]

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Martha D. Bardsley

Photography by Jeff Fusco

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Michael A. Levine

Coventry Deli oatmeal.  Top a 10-ounce portion of Coventry’s double-boiled creamy wonder with fresh fruit and nuts of your choosing for an extra 25 cents […]

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Francesco DeLuca

“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” — H.G. Wells THE SECOND SCARIEST THING that ever happened to Michael Sanders occurred on a sunny Saturday in June, […]

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Wellness: Pure Barre

The past few years, the sleek and slim of L.A. and New York (e.g., Kelly Ripa) have been flocking to barre classes, for fast-acting, ballet-derived […]