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7 Ways You Can Be the Best Broad Street Run Spectator Ever

I don’t have much interest in running the Broad Street Run. Maybe this makes me a bad Philadelphia runner. I hit the pavement four or […]

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10 Signs You’ve Moved Too Many Times in Your 20s

I am writing this post while sitting on my couch, which is wedged between a bookcase and an armchair in the corner of my cluttered […]

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NFL Draft Guide for Casual Eagles Fans

The NFL draft is a bore. I remember it used to be fun, when I was a kid. The TV production was slightly amateurish; it […]

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10 Celebrity Apologies We Wish Would Happen

Lesson learned: Reese Witherspoon is kind of a diva. When her husband got pulled over for a DUI, she made a big old Hollywood scene […]

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Philly Burger Joint Ranked One of Best 38 in Country

Not to be confused with its “25 hottest burgers” list released last month, the food blog Eater has unveiled its definitive ranking of the best […]

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Guess Which Area Governor Made Time’s “100 Most Influential” List?

No, not Tom Corbett, silly! Recent Time coverboy Chris Christie, for his role during Hurricane Sandy. (The entry was written by a fourth-grader whom he […]

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The Most Interesting Man in the World (or At Least Harrisburg)

With Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz running for governor, a power vacuum has opened up in the 13th District. Bob Brady’s picked his guy. The seat’s former occupant, […]

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Hey Twentysomethings: Here Are 16 Things You Can Do With the Sunday Inquirer

As my colleague Joel Mathis reported last week, the launch of the Daily News and Inquirer paywalled websites isn’t just about pageviews. It’s also about […]

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4 Extreme Ways Companies Have Restricted Smoking on the Job

  Next year, states will begin implementing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the most controversial of these being the “individual mandate”—which requires all […]

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Food & Wine: East Passyunk Ave One “Ten Best Foodie Streets in America”

But we knew that already. Now the tourists can too. East Passyunk Ave gets the Food & Wine magazine treatment, landing on its list of […]

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Why I’ll Never Be Caught in a Cruise Ship Disaster

Over one century ago, a grand ship named the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 1,502 of her 2,224 occupants. Since then, there […]

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More Than Just Steak ‘Em Up: Best and Worst Phillies Commercials of 2013

Phillies fans have a lot of options when following the team. The media sources come in flavors ranging from official to broadsheet to tabloid to […]

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Barbara Walters Should Quit The View and Go Work for Fox News

Last week, news trickled out that longtime television interviewer Barbara Walters planned to retire next spring. It seemed, perplexingly, both inconceivable—can TV news exist without […]

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Phillies 5th-Most Valuable Team in Baseball

Valuable, of course, is a relative team. On one hand, The Phillies are worth $893,000,000, good for fifth-best in baseball, and tops in the National […]

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9 Totally Ridiculous Personal Questions Your Employer Might Ask You One Day

Are you an employee? Is it 2013? Then welcome to the new reality! Because it’s a great time to be an employer. Those in the […]