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“Nordstrom Fetishists” Have Wrong Ideas About Center City Shopping

No sooner did HughE Dillon post this on Philly Chit Chat than I heard hearts racing from the Delaware to the Schuylkill: “I hear that the […]

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The Price of Cheap Clothes

For years I’ve practiced a little ritual when I shop for clothes. I got it from watching my father, who, like his father before him, […]

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Wall Street Journal: Male Golfers Want Clothes That Won’t Embarrass Them

Thank God for weekends. If there weren’t weekends, my house would never get clean. I’d never get to the post office. And I’d never get […]

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The Brooklyn Flea Is Coming to Philadelphia

If you’ve spent any time in New York City in recent years, you should know that the five-year-old Brooklyn Flea is one of the coolest […]

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3 Million Men Are Just Like Buzz Bissinger

Buzz Bissinger, besides his bipolarity, self-loathing, and mid-life crisisdom, seems also to have a bad case of Compulsive Buying Syndrome. It’s a real thing, says […]

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How Does One Ask to See the Whips-and-Handcuffs Room at Coeur?

A New York Times story today discusses how the naughty masterpiece Fifty Shades of Grey has been very, very good to the lingerie industry, with […]

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Joan Shepp Closing Walnut Street Boutique

Philadelphia women who want to look impeccably stylish, with just the right amount of edge, know who to call: Joan Shepp. Even willowy leading lady […]

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Anthropologie Selling $400 Racist Lamp

Gawker flags the offending item: a racially insensitive candlestick featuring some caricatured versions of an Asian person, what might be a clown or Inuit person, […]

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What We Love: Prop Love

Harvey Milk once said that “hope will never be silent.” That’s likely what they had in mind when they created Proposition Love, an LGBT jewelry […]

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Starbucks Now Selling $450 Stainless Steel Gift Cards

When its ballyhooed seven dollar cup of coffee was unveiled a couple weeks ago, it seemed Starbucks had reached a plateau in the art of ripping […]

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Last-Minute Gift Guide

Still need to find that perfect gift? We have some great gift ideas – just in time for all the house parties, soirees and gift […]

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Joe Biden’s D.C. Costco Trip Nets Modest-Sized Television, Large Apple Pie

  The first Costco in Washington, D.C. opened today, receiving an inaugural visit from Vice President Joe Biden. Though he did semi-important stuff like address […]

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Philly Was Too Smart to Fall for Small Business Saturday

We had Black Friday. Then Cyber Monday. For God’s sake, now someone’s even come up with Giving Tuesday. And in the middle of it all […]

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Beau Monde Guys Talk Tavern on Green

Philadelphia restaurateurs Jim Caiola and David Salama, owners of Creperie Beau Monde and L’Etage, are profiled in Crain’s New York, where they’re getting ready to revive the […]

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IKEA Apologizes for Using BILLY Clubs on PRYSYN LÅBÖRERS

Apparently the Swedo-Dutch DIY retail giant has tortured more than just its customers. The company is apologizing today after a report that some of its […]