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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 […]

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A Creepy Way to Celebrate the Royal Wedding

How best to mark a momentous occasion? A commemorative doll, of course. And, just in time for Kate Middleton’s long-awaited nuptials to Prince William, the […]

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Fat Mannequins … So Wrong

I just returned from a trip to the mall where I passed a new lingerie store with a window display filled with silky underwear on […]

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Observations from a Macy’s Christmas Virgin

Every Christmas, they come here, to Macy’s. For the past 25 years. A mother and her son and daughter from Stratford, NJ — the kids […]

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Main Line Goodwill Is the New Neiman Marcus

I’ve been purging my closet a lot this year. I feel like I’ve spent a fair amount of time and gas making regular trips to […]