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Miss Spelling

Most fully grown adults would pause for a minute or two if someone asked them to get up in front of a room full of people and spell "cosmozoic." Or "gnomonics." Or "spadiceous."...

Cook up gifts for mother’s day

Sunday is Mother's Day, the day Mom can relax, put her feet up, enjoy a good book and look forward to brunch or dinner in a restaurant or at home. We never go...

Civil action

As a resident of Bella Vista, Lee Carpenter enjoys the sense of a friendly and close-knit neighborhood. But she's well aware that not everyone is neighborly. There's the case of the...

Reality housework

The scene: Two best girlfriends and their guys living on the same block, working like dogs for 48 hours aided by two slightly crazy, egomaniacal interior designers, redesigning one room in each...

Pad Thai

Pad Thai 606 S. Second St. 215-592-1168 Credit cards accepted Wheelchair-accessible BYOB Every country has its national dish. Some nations, such as Italy, France and the United States, are famous for more than...

Drawing a blank

The temptation to start off this piece by paraphrasing Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is simply too strong to resist. "Big Nothing," a citywide art happening spearheaded by Penn's Institute of Contemporary...

That Cobra man

I must confess to never having been a car-racing fan. I've been to Watkins Glen, Lime Rock and other tracks, interviewed Paul Newman while he was still racing for Bob Sharp, and...

Growing up in a ‘Minute’

New York Minute PG Starting tomorrow at area theaters Two reels out of four Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are the focal point of a billion-dollar empire that includes videos, CDs, fashion and...

Burned out

Ivan Smith was wheeled out of St. Agnes' Center for Advanced Burn and Wound Care last week and up to his fourth-floor room. Such transfers were once a matter of routine...

Court holds bank accountable

The money must be paid back. That's the opinion of two Pennsylvania Superior Court judges regarding a local bank, a life savings and questions of judgment. The judgment of both an 84-year-old...
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