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The hula hoop, a '50s fad, has come back with a serious side - hooping it up to lose weight.
Marisa Grasso is a hooper. The walls of her Northern Liberties home have scuff marks. Her art students have seen her do it between classes. Once in a while, she'll have a bruise on her legs or on her face after her hoop goes astray.
 
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A Kensington man and his crew are hunting for the tattoos and tales of those indelibly linked to the defunct punk band Black Flag.
In this world of the oft-tattooed, it's inevitable that multiple people will have the same design or logo etched into their skin. But those who have the four vertical rectangles that symbolize the punk-rock group Black Flag are a special breed, says the architect behind a book devoted to the bars.
 
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A class teaches how to become one with a fine-quality knife - to slice sleekly, dice deftly, mince magnificently.
Whenever I was allowed to sleep in on the Saturday mornings of my youth, I'd listen for the peddler with the sharpening stone. "Knives and scissors," he'd sing-song his way through the alley behind our rowhouse. Unfortunately, my mother was deaf to his calls. To her, cheap knives were good enough. And to my knowledge, she never had hers sharpened. Thus, I came to cooking inadequately armed.
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Opportunity doesn't always knock. In the case of Amy and David Pollack, it crashed in their front yard. Almost 10 years ago, Hurricane Floyd uprooted the enormous century-old beech tree that dominated the couple's traditional front lawn in Swarthmore. Today, that same space is a naturalistic landscape of soft lines and sweeping color, with a pond that rocks in spring with the kreek-eek, kreek-eek of frisky frogs looking for hookups.
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Before reaching for the garden hoe or hand tiller, dig into this page for expert gardening tips and blogs. Don't miss the slide shows and garden videos, or the chance to post your own photos.
The Drosts' Shore home - nicknamed the Lobster Lair - went from cottage to year-round home.
The Drosts do not run a seafood restaurant, though there's a "Lobster Lair" sign over the front door of their three-story house in North Beach Haven.
 
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