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Christmas Village Moved to Love Park

Christmas Village—an outdoor marketplace featuring 50 some booths of food, jewelry, ornaments and the like—is usually set up in Dilworth Plaza at City Hall. This […]

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Google Offers Launches in Philly

Living Social and Groupon now have a new competitor in the Philadelphia region in the form of Google Offers. Google Offers was launched in Philly […]

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Navajo Upset With Urban Outfitters

Navajo Nation is upset with Philly-based retailer Urban Outfitters for using the tribe’s name on a line of clothing. The tribe holds trademarks on the […]

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GQ Publishes Listicle of Cool Places in Philly

GQ has included Philly in quite a few listicles lately and—unsurprisingly—not all of them have given the city much credit. In the current issue on […]

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King of Prussia Mall to Install Electric Car Charging Stations

The King of Prussia mall has taken a large step toward the future by installing a bunch of electric car charging stations. The stations will […]

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Target’s Missoni Sale Shows How Low We Can Go

For over a month, the reminder has hung on my bulletin board, a glossy page ripped out of a magazine featuring a tight shot of […]

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Inspired By Beyonce’s New Scent: Stop Buying Celebrity Perfumes

A lot of press releases cross our desks. We get weird makeup samples (leopard-print eye shadow stencils), countless skin creams with inflated promises to be […]

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Sheet Thread Counts Don’t Matter

I remember standing in Bed, Bath & Beyond, looking at a set of king-size sheets, debating whether or not the $89.99 price tag meant that […]

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The Struggle to Find the Right Eyeglass Frames

Getting new glasses, as I did today, is a little like Christmas for your face. There’s the anticipation of seeing well, and indeed the world […]

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The High Price of a Good Night’s Sleep

Maybe I’ve been asleep for too long, but when did mattresses become as expensive as a used car? Check that. As expensive as a new […]

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I’ll See Your Apple Store and Raise You a Crate and Barrel

For the entire time I’ve lived in this city, I have harbored silly little fantasies about Philadelphia retail the way some people dream about the […]

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We All Make Money Mistakes

After 30 years of couch sessions with her clients—and after dealing with some financial losses of her own—Wynnewood-based psychologist Maggie Baker realized one thing: We’re […]

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Farmers’ Markets vs. Whole Foods

Like many people today who fit in the same general census demographic as myself, I have increasingly become obsessed with food. Not in the typical […]

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Anthro’s Accessories Shop Coming to Suburban Square

For years—decades, really—the fashion whopper that is URBN, Inc., comprised of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, Leifsdottir, BHLDN, and possibly another clever brand I […]

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Footwear Fetish

There are shoe women, and there are non-shoe women. I fall into the latter category. For one thing, my feet are enormous—size 11—and no matter […]