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Taste: Eat This Now: Cold-Stone Ice Cream

A new crop of chains — Cold Stone Creamery, Marble Slab Creamery, Maggie Moo’s — and Newtown’s own Zebra-Striped Whale are redefining classic ice-cream texture […]

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Taste: Reviews: On Fire

 Barbecue is one part smoke, one part patience, and five parts bragging. Competition cooks throw down immodest adjectives to describe their methods, their rubs, their […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Pets

Pet accessories: Two Dog Studio This pawsitively chic new Old City store and designer makes the cutest dog beds, in funky fabrics from dots to […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Home

Place to get your Kid Coiffed: Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids This new Chestnut Hill hair cuttery is more than any kid could hope for. […]

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Real Estate 2005: Selling Savvy

Last spring proved a seller’s dream. “We saw more multiple offers than anyone could remember,” says Marjie Frankel, a Gladwyne-based realtor for Prudential Fox & […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Home

Discount Appliances: ABC Discount AppliancesFrom $269 stoves to $6,900 four-oven ranges, ABC promises one sure thing—all prices are below the MSRP. Known for a huge […]

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Real Estate 2005: Where to Buy Now

As the frenzy abates (a bit) and the interest rates stay low (for now), buyers are facing friendly conditions indeed. But while the end of […]

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Pulse: Power: They’re Building It. Will Anybody Come?

It was, to say the least, a sweet deal: The state would designate the plot of land at 17th and JFK Boulevard as a Keystone […]

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Best of Philly 2005: Style

Women’s Style Bathing suits: Cameo Water Wear Forget the long lines and sloppy inventory of the department store. Single-focus Cameo simplifies this dreaded search with […]

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Features: Best of Philly 2005: Beauty & Spa

Spa brand: Bluemercury                                                                           With its recent opening at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, Bluemercury is expanding its specialty apothecary-plus-spa approach. But it hasn’t lost its […]

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The Best Philadelphians 2005

Liz and Jay Scott needed to raise $5 million. They didn’t have to do it. And no one would have blamed them if they decided […]

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Travel: Island Hopping: Kid Luxe

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Family travel compromise exists. At the all-inclusive Paradisus Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, new family concierges will ply your kids […]

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Lowdown: Picture Perfect

Ursula Hobson Fine Art Framing, Inc.1600 Spruce Street, 215-546-7889; ursulahobson.com For almost two decades, Center City’s cognoscenti have headed to Ursula Hobson to frame everything […]

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Personal Best: Lewis Wexler

When I first heard “Lewis Wexler, owner of the Wexler Gallery in Old City, former assistant vice president at Christie’s, ­expert on 20th-century decorative arts,” […]

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Ragas Report: Shop Talk: Stich

Eric Fisher could be the boy next door — were it not for his $250 Terra Plana slip-ons and his black polo with the collar […]