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One dead, one critical in fall from apartment

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Published Aug. 30, 2009 at 3:04 p.m.

After a man died and a woman was critically injured in a fall early this morning from a fourth-floor fire escape, code enforcement officials have evacuated the building and shut down a popular Belgian restaurant on the first floor ...

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DINING OUT A new course: Vast, ritzy out; cozy, modest in

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Published Aug. 30, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Economic forces continue to pummel the restaurant industry, with more than three dozen closings in the region this year. Yet, surprisingly, at least as many eager opportunists have stepped in, checkbooks in hand, to open new ones ...

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Needlepoint shop stitches together a community

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Published Aug. 27, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Laura Stonecipher, a 28-year-old insurance account manager from Chicago, came to Philadelphia a few weeks ago on business. In the cab from the airport to her hotel, she passed the corner of 18th and Chestnut Streets and noticed a wave of script flowing across the wide glass windows: "Rittenhouse Needlepoint, instruction, coffee, conversation." ...

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Rich Hofmann: Pedro Martinez? Dominicans still eat him up in New York

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

NEW YORK - At the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and West 191st Street, the menu of El Nuevo Caridad restaurant features the Pedro Martinez special: pollo guisado, arroz, habichuelas, ensalada de aguacate and agua. That is, chicken stew, rice, beans, avocado salad and water. At lunch yesterday, it seems like the way to go. (The cerveza is an improvisation.) ...

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Comfort from Kong

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Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.

After dispensing with a few last-minute provisioning questions - where to source the "sky-facing peppers" that heat up Hong Kong's street food; how to get a customized slip tucked into the fortune cookies - the restaurant called Kong opened with a bang last week, strings of firecrackers dancing on the sidewalk on Second Street at Fairmount Avenue ...

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Defense Rests In Philly Subway Beating Death Case

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Published Aug. 21, 2009 at 6:33 p.m.

Closing arguments are set for Monday in the trial of three teensaccused of beating a coffee shop manager to death on a downtownPhiladelphia subway concourse. Eighteen-year-old Ameer Best,17-year-old Kinta Stanton and 17-year-old Nashir Fisher are facingthird-degree murder charges in the death of 36-year-old Sean Conroy inMarch 2008. Attorneys for the teens wrapped up their case Friday ...

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Defense rests in subway beating case

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Published Aug. 21, 2009 at 1:39 p.m.

Closing arguments are set for Monday in the trial of three teens accused of beating a coffee shop manager to death on a downtown Philadelphia subway concourse ...

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Is Myers throwing us a curve?

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Published Aug. 19, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

This Brett Myers business is curious. He missed a rehab start and first told the Phils that he hurt himself because his toddler fired a baseball into his eye. Then he told the Phils that he tripped and caught his eye on his wife's car. Now there's a report that he was down in Florida at a restaurant when a friend of his got into a shoving match with some locals. Witnesses say he wasn't involved ...

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Noble American Cookery

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Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 2:04 p.m.

With a lofty name like Noble American Cookery, it should come as no surprise that every aspect of this promising new restaurant is steeped with tall ambition and a deliberately haute-Yankee twist ...

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