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Try Mian, Not Your Average Asian SugarHouse Casino Restaurant
Story by Tyra Gardner, photos by Cassie Hepler Mian at SugarHouse Casino provides quick service Asian cuisine, perfect for a cold winter’s night. Mian’s Manager Reuben Abasolo provided us with an enlightening history of the restaurants new renovations which consisted of its move of location area within the SugarHouse Casino near the Chinese gaming section of the casino. Mian offers the very best in Asian cuisine to satisfy everyone’s tastebuds. Mian offers customers the option of take out or dining in within its very spacious beautiful Asian motif restaurant. Reuben provided us with a tour of the restaurant and introduced us to our server of the evening Tai whom was…
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French Wine Dinner at Lou Bird’s Full of Great Food, Company and All The Wines
Story, photos by Jennifer Ferrell On a chilly Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of dining at Lou Bird‘s warm brick and wooden elegant neighborhood bar and restaurant. The restaurant hosted a French wine pairing cuisine price fix menu. Greeted with a friendly face and a warm handshake at the front door, I was shown to my seat at the bar. Immediately upon arrival, I was greeted by the bartender, Shane who ended up tending to filling my wine glasses and delivering my delicious colorful plates. I immediately felt at home under the red glow from the specially selected votives adorning the bar. I met with the owner, Norris Jordan,…
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Falling in Love with Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Since I was a teen, I wanted to live a bi-coastal life with my favorite seasons on the East Coast (Spring, Summer and Fall) and escape chilly Philly to somewhere warm in the winter (usually California and sometimes Florida). Perhaps I don’t own any warm weather property (yet) however I can escape the cold to the land of sunshine and lollipops, especially now that my back is fixed up with no pain and I’m literally less than 5 degrees curved now from scoliosis fusion surgery! So this trip was extra special and an encouragement from my Scoliosis Inspire & Inform group to take a one-year “Spineaversary” to celebrate being back…
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Recharge Your Energy Battery With Reiki Near Washington Square
Photos, story by Cassie Hepler Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy. It literally means “universal life energy”. So remember that day that was 50 mph whipping, freezing winds and rain? That’s the tundra we trudged through for this story. And by…
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3000BC WellMed Spa in Chestnut Hill a Place for Zen Relaxation and Pampering
Story, photos by Cassie Hepler Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia has a gem that is not so hidden away. 3000BC was founded in 1992 by Korin Korman as a result of her MBA thesis at the Wharton Business School. During her research, she discovered that Egyptians had fully developed the use of essential botanical oils in and around the year 3000 B.C. In 1993, 3000BC began to provide services as a testing ground for its name sake product line. The flagship spa established a cult following that enabled the relocation of the flagship. In 2008, 3000BC became 3000BC WellMed Spa merging the world of wellness and the world of medicine, with the…
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Spring Forward With Inspiration from Philadelphia Fashion Week 2017
Story, photos by Tyra Gardener Philadelphia Fashion Week one of the most must see events of the season with all of the latest fashions from Philadelphia’s new and brightest designers making bold and trendy fashionable statements on the Philadelphia Fashion Scene. Philadelphia Fashion week kickoff gala was held at the Sugar House Casino toward the end of March. This gala showcased fashions of some of Philadelphia’s finest designers of Spring 2017 clothing lines. The designers were students and former students of the Fashion Incubator located inside of Macy’s Center City (which is one of the sponsors) Designers showcased at this event were: Terese Sydonna, Victoria Wright, Jessica Joy London, Onyx…
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Luxe Living Good Food Flats Opens on Drexel University Campus for Healthy Lifestyles
Photos, story by Tyra Gardner Good Food Flats is new student luxury living on the Drexel University campus centered around maintaining Good Food & Healthy Lifestyles. Students in Drexel University’s Hospitality and Sports Management program and University of Pennsylvania can reside in this state of the art off campus housing property. Good Food Flats is located at 4030 Baring Street and was scheduled to open on March 1, 2017. Cross Properties is responsible for bring this new cutting edge and one of the first modular buildings to the city of Philadelphia. What make Good Food Flats so unique are the state of the art commercial kitchens that are throughout this…
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Behind the Scenes with P.J. Whelihan’s at WIP Wing Bowl 2017
Video, story by Whitney Ullman Every year for 10 years, P.J. Whelihan’s supplies the much anticipated Philadelphia’s WIP Wing Bowl at the Wells Fargo Center with 10,000 wings, and we had a chance to go behind the scenes to see how it’s all prepared and packaged. Check out this rundown of “fowl” facts and figures: 10,000: Wings prepared by P.J. Whelihan’s for the annual WIP Wing Bowl competition, held Friday, February 3 in Philadelphia. 10,000 wings are enough to circle the Wells Fargo Center hockey arena (host of Wing Bowl) 16.5 times or line 8.81 football fields. 122,660: Number of wings served by P.J. Whelihan’s on Super Bowl Sunday in…
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Philly Art Museum Presents Landmark Exhibition on the Watercolor Movement in American Art
Story, photos by Lou Perri The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the most comprehensive loan exhibition in over 40 years devoted to the most important chapter in the history of watercolor painting in this country. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent will bring together more than 170 works—many of them acknowledged masterpieces of this difficult, yet rewarding medium—drawn from public and private collections throughout the country. Tracing the development of the watercolor movement from its passionate embrace by a small, but dedicated group of painters in the 1860’s to the flowering of Modernism, this sweeping survey will examine the remarkable transformation of the medium that occurred in the…
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Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Flower Show Kicks off with Holland: Flowering the World
Photos, story by Tiffany Dubois For 2017 the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show will be featuring the land of tulips, “Holland: Flowering the World”, with a celebration of the beauty and ingenuity of Dutch culture, from the vivid and vibrant flower fields to innovative eco-design. Visitors will pass under a brick bridge inspired by the Amsterdam cityscape that will be decorated with Delft tile patterns, overflowing flower boxes and hanging baskets. A floral canopy will also be on display above the Entrance Garden with more than 6,000 fresh-cut and dried flowers hanging down from multi-colored strings above the heads of visitors. During the press junket held back in February at the Logan…