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Taste: Dining Out: Dinner With … Stephen Starr

Usual breakfast: Granola and bananas. How you take your coffee: One Equal and skim milk. Number of times per week you eat in your restaurants: […]

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Taste: Spirits: Vermouth Truth

Vermouth has had a tough ride. The sweet version of the beverage was born in 18th-century Italy, when some bright bulb took cheap, nasty-tasting wine […]

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Taste: Spirits: How We’re Drinking

Hear the words “bar cart,” and the first thing that comes to mind may be a creaky booze jalopy rattling up an airplane aisle. But […]

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Feature: Media: Game On

MIKE MISSANELLI had no idea The Punch would change the face of Philadelphia radio forever. It was St. Paddy’s Day 2006, and it was a […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Just Don’t Call Him Two-Faced

Even if you don’t know John Saler — Stradley Ronon lobbyist, political insider, onetime film producer — chances are you know his face. Especially if […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Big Mother Is Watching

In this age of hyper-vigilant helicoptering, summer overnight camps are stepping up efforts to convince parents it’s okay to let Junior out of their sight. […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Media: Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad, World

It was, by many accounts, the tipping point in the heated Democratic primary race for a Senate seat: After Joe Sestak’s camp ran a TV […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Media: Poof!

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Pulse: Chatter: Safe House Beautiful

As long as the world keeps ending, business will be good for George Welhaf Jr. His company, Green Eye Technology in Feasterville, sells high-end underground […]

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Pulse: Chatter: Wanna Ride?

Just as the city unveiled its first-ever licensed bicycle-propelled cabs — a.k.a. “pedicabs” — the website CabCorner, already established in NYC, San Francisco and Tokyo, […]

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The Good Life: Model Citizen: Beth Dunn, author of “Social Climbers”

The three things you need to know about Beth Dunn: 1. She’s from the Main Line. 2. She and her family now live year-round at […]

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The Good Life: The Getaway: Cape May Beach Shack

Remember when Cape May was just a cloudy-day destination, the sort of place where grandmotherly types sipped tea on doily-strewn Victorian porches, and binoculared birders […]

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High Times on the Main Line

Ah, the bliss of suburban Philadelphia in summer. [sidebar]On a recent balmy, breezy Wednesday night, Amanda*, a pretty, youthful-looking mom in her early 40s who […]

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Five Reasons To Be Careful About Cannabis

Pot may not seem as bad for you as booze and cigarettes, but it isn’t risk-free. And while smoking every other weekend might be a […]

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Should Pot Be Legal?

THE POLS In favor of full legalization:  0%   State Senator Daylin Leach, 17th District, Montgomery and Delaware counties “I don’t think it’s unreasonable for […]