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Exit Interview: Lauren Weisberger

You might think Lauren Weisberger, one of the undisputed queens of chick lit, would be a grade-A snob, considering her success: Prada, her first novel, […]

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Power Lunch: Jane Golden for Mayor

For 25 years, Jane Golden has been the maestro of one of the city’s true artistic treasures, the Mural Arts Program. Since she debuted the […]

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Do Kids Cause Divorce?

In June, Melissa* packed the U-Haul with everything that was hers and everything that was theirs — the Disney videos, the Littlest Pet Shop figurines, […]

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Ed Rendell: The Oral History

What can you say about a man who shoves food in his pockets and eats with his hands? Who tore off his shirt and dove […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Portrait of a Ladies’ Clothier: Sophy Curson

At Sophy Curson, the Rittenhouse Square boutique completing its 80th year next month, you must ask for things.Starting at the front door, where you ring […]

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The Good Life: Summer Squash

This is a chair. Its name is “Pumpkin,” and it is famous. French furnishing designer Pierre Paulin created the first -Pumpkin chairs in 1971 for […]

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Pulse: The Buzz: Flipping Out

Let me be clear. There is nothing wrong with flip-flops. Classic rubber sandals — I’d call them thongs, but you’d laugh — are summertime staples. […]

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Pulse: The Buzz: Christina Wills, Makeup Artist

Wills, the newest member of the illustrious team at Gladwyne salon OMG, spent the past six years managing Neiman Marcus’s Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics counter, […]

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Pulse: Pursuits: Hot Tickets: August 2010

Hope It Was Worth ItThat $70 Million PaintingAfter all that fuss, you can finally see Thomas Eakins’s freshly restored Gross Clinic for yourself at its […]

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Tweet Nothings

Sixty-five-year-old Congressman Bob Brady — competing with other House Dems to see who can build the largest following on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — is […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Reel Life

You win one Pulitzer, and suddenly everybody wants a piece of you — especially when you’re part of a duo of investigative reporters (and suburban […]

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Quotable Ed

January 1978Becomes district attorney of Philadelphia.January 1986“I believe, prior to my coming in, the [D.A.’s] office had established a reputation that the fate of cases […]

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Ask a Top Doctor: Do My Kids Need to Wear Sunglasses?

“The greatest amount of UV damage to the eye happens in the first 18 years of life, so it’s even more vital for children to […]

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New Gym in Town

Voorhees’s Versa Fit Studio is famous for its fat-burning, skin-smoothing “Vacu Fit” ellipticals and treadmills. It also offers Pilates, spinning, tae kwon do, zumba and […]

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Dinner Party

On food television — Iron Chef, Chopped, The Next Food Network Star — restaurant chefs are in a constant state of battle, knives out and […]