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Late Spring 2014 22 Front Runners 34 From the Editor-in-Chief 36 From the Publisher 38 …Without Whom This Issue Would Not Have Been Possible 41 Invited 56 The List

People 59 Turning the Tide Liza Cartmell, president of the Atlantic City Alliance and leader of the city’s revitalization effort, brings the beach to the boardroom (and vice versa).

62 Radio Waves SoJO 104.9 DJ Heather DeLuca talks about her life on radio, the sound of the Shore, and what makes an ideal playlist.

64 The Amazing Race Shore native and Challenge triathlon promoter Stephen Del Monte was born to run.

68 Where the Wild Things Are Dr. Lenore Tedesco steers Stone Harbor’s Wetlands Institute’s outreach opportunities like the Spring Shorebird and Horseshoe Crab Festival.

72 Charity Register May your giving spirit flower at these charitable events.

Culture Pop’s iconoclastic songstress throws an ArtRave at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall.

76 Eastern Expression The Philadelphia art world looks east for the second annual Art Basel Hong Kong and local experts talk trending topics in the international market.

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Lady Gaga should garner quite the “applause” when her ArtRave tour hits Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on June 28.

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Late Spring 2014 Taste 78 ....Two If By Sea Between his namesake restaurant in Atlantic City and his Philly newcomer Avance, Chris Scarduzio is making waves on the beach and further inland.

82 Jersey Fresh The Jersey Shore highlights its local bounty with the Garden State-to-Plate movement.

86 Bottle Service At local watering holes like Atlantic City Bottle Co., craft beer is fast becoming a summer staple.

88 Cornering the Market Local legend Pinky Kravitz talks about his history in Atlantic City radio over seaside fare at The Knife & Fork Inn.

Style 92 Growing Up Fisher Eileen Fisher goes green—but stays glam—as her brand celebrates its 30th anniversary and plans for the future.

94 Style Spotlight Zac Posen gowns star at a gala lunch for CHOP’s Daisy Day, and Louis Vuitton’s Emprise collection draws inspiration from the brand’s iconic travel trunks.

96 A Day to Detox Author and filmmaker Danielle Gomes reveals her favorite Shore beauty shops.

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104 East Meets West Atlantic City spas turn traditional with ancient treatments to cure the body and spirit.

108 High Brow City experts explain the best spots to raise your brows to another level.

112 Observe and Report NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has traveled the world over covering global politics, but Philadelphia remains her philosophical home base.

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Features 112 Observe and Report Despite a broadcast career that’s taken her deep into political conflicts around the world, Andrea Mitchell still feels at home on the streets of Philadelphia.

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124 Changing of the Guardian Mayor Don Guardian—Atlantic City’s first openly gay mayor—talks AC’s developing present and dynamic future.

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Nine of Philadelphia’s most vital female leaders discuss the past, present, and future of their beloved city and explain how they are raising the bar to meet their own high standards.

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Philadelphia’s diverse restaurant list continues to grow with new openings from hip NoLibs BYOs to old-school Graduate Hospital steak spots.

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Talking spring fashion trends on Fox 29’s Good Day Philadelphia with hosts Sheinelle Jones and Q Deezy.

With my cohost Jimmy Contreras and the four fashionable winners of the third annual Red Carpet Party at The Ritz-Carlton. The cocktail party is held each year before the Academy Awards.

Of Mercer designers and Wharton graduates Emelyn Northway and Dorie Golkin recently returned to Philadelphia to host a trunk show at Knit Wit. Owner Ann Gitter frequently hosts pop-up boutiques for local and emerging fashion labels.

circulated early last fall announcing that Philadelphia Style, along with our Niche Media sister publications, would be producing our first-ever Women of Influence issue. Boldfaced names from all manner of industries would grace our pages, talking about those aspects of their professional pursuits that were influential and inspiring.

For answers I turned to my “ideas book” for future issues. (No Microsoft Word document or fancy Excel spreadsheet here—I’d much rather keep illegible notes of names, places, and themes to decipher on deadline later.)

As expected, there were plenty of women perfect for the occasion: broadcasters, business executives, star chefs, and philanthropic leaders.

Each had a lengthy résumé of achievements and called to mind traits like intelligence and ambition. These women embody poise and character and have that intangible “it” factor.

The same can be said for our cover star Andrea Mitchell. Best known as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC Nightly News and the host of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and spent the early part of her broadcast career here in Philadelphia. And although her home base is Washington, DC, where she and husband Alan Greenspan are one of Capitol Hill’s most high-profile couples, she still considers herself a Philadelphian at heart (and one who remains an active UPenn alum at that). As a media icon and role model for aspiring journalists—especially women— Follow me on Twitter at Mitchell is quick to give advice about making @philastylekm and on strategic, thoughtful decisions early on in your phillystylemag.com. career. The Women of Influence, highlighted in our special portrait feature on page 116, doled out plenty of advice, too, on topics like overcoming obstacles and thriving in your industry.

And who better to ask to define the idea of power than the very ladies we tapped to appear in the story? For many of them, power is a collaborative effort rather than a singular pursuit. As Lisa Nutter says: “It’s being able to get things done through passion and influence versus compliance and force.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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My wife, Lauren, and I joined Rosemarie and John Kushnir, Niche Media vice president and chief financial officer, at the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Preview Party.

With chef/owner Chris Scarduzio at the opening of his new Center City restaurant, Avance.

FROM TOP: Philadelphians Michael and Kevin Bacon emceed the Academy of Music’s 157th anniversary gala and performed at the Hyatt at The Bellevue afterparty; Nicole Cashman and Sabrina Tamburino Thorne hosted an intimate dinner at Cook to celebrate Laurel chef/owner Nick Elmi’s recent Top Chef victory.

Philadelphia. That makes it one of the best times of year to live here because it means we get to enjoy the city and the Shore. The best of both are celebrated in these pages, our long-running annual Atlantic City Confidential Issue. We all know that AC is now a year-round destination for its great concerts, world-class dining, and over-the-top nightlife, giving everyone a way to “DO AC.” It’s an initiative that Atlantic City Alliance President Liza Cartmell talks about extensively in this issue’s “View From the Top.” Now three years into her role, Cartmell is reaping the rewards of their successful marketing campaign: Attendance and brand perception is up from core markets like Baltimore and New York, and there’s been a double-digit improvement in cleanliness and safety in the city.

Mayor Don Guardian is focusing on these key factors and a host of other initiatives—taxes, housing, real estate development—as he heads into his first summer at the helm in Atlantic City. Guardian, who was elected in late 2013, talks openly about the city’s challenges in this issue’s feature story “Changing of the Guardian,” but he is both optimistic and realistic about AC’s future, Follow me on Instagram calling it a “day-by-day” process. A strong @johnc2k5 and on marketing plan for the city and new Twitter @johncolabelli. revenue sources for the casinos prove that AC is poised for even more great things to come. As a visitor and a local, I’m more excited than ever to watch how Atlantic City’s future unfolds.

For years, our Late Spring edition has celebrated the Shore, but I’m also thrilled to present the new Women of Influence theme in this issue. Some of the city’s most powerful names in business, healthcare, entertainment, and philanthropy are featured in the pages that follow. You may be surprised by the personal stories they share about their lives but one thing is certain—they have plenty of exciting work still to do in Philadelphia.

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Jared Castaldi Jared Castaldi is an editorial and commercial photographer who shot our “Women of Influence” feature. He was born and raised in the western suburbs in Chester County and is currently based out of Fishtown. When Jared isn’t behind the camera shooting for publications like The Wall Street Journal, Cooking Light, and Barron’s, you’ll find him on a motorcycle, behind a drum set, or brewing beer.

What commonalities did you observe while shooting all eight women? Their confidence. You need it when you’ve ascended to the positions they hold. Why was it important to photograph these women in their places of work? We wanted

to convey how on-the-move they are. Not coincidentally, they’re some of the busiest people I have ever met, so we had to fit into their calendars. Who’s an influential woman in your life? My mom. She raised me and my siblings to be the best people—both professionally and personally—that we could possibly be.

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Betsy F. Perry Betsy F. Perry has been privileged to work closely with great figures of the media world like Rupert Murdoch, Helen Gurley Brown, and Christian Dior. She wrote this issue’s story on women in politics.

Who inspired you while researching this story? Phyllis Lee Levin’s Abigail

Adams biography made me realize that Adams herself would have been a great candidate; she was a real survivor.

What contemporary lessons should our readers take from your findings? I was interested to hear from one of my interview-

ees, Dana Brown, that campaigning is so tough for women. That’s all the more reason for sticking with it and knocking on those doors.

Adam Erace Adam Erace battles excessive salt intake and cankles as the restaurant critic for the Philadelphia City Paper.

He also writes about food and travel for publications like Details, Fodor’s, Men’s Journal, and Southern Living; for this issue he penned a story on the Garden State-to-Plate movement. He lives in South Philly with his wife, Charlotte, and two rescue pups, Lupo and Marco.

Why do you think “eating local” has become so important? You’re dealing with fruits and vegeta-

bles that haven’t had to travel a thousand miles to get to your plate and haven’t had their idiosyncratic flavors bred out in favor of commercially desired qualities like blanket sweetness and transport durability. What’s your favorite Jersey produce? Blueberries. By July, they’re fat, juicy, and will stain your fingers.

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Roland Flamini A longtime former foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Time magazine, Roland Flamini has also written for publications like Architectural Digest and Town & Country. For Philadelphia Style, he wrote the 2012 cover story on Chris Matthews before interviewing Andrea Mitchell for this issue.

Who are some of your broadcast heroes? I was a fan of Walter Cronkite, have worked alongside Peter Jennings in the Middle East, and have shared a campaign bus with Leslie Stahl. Was there anything about Andrea’s day-to-day that surprised you? I was surprised by the size of the workload in the era of news communications. Reporters like Andrea are expected to tweet, blog, and write articles for the website, as well as being on camera with the news.

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Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra joined forces and put on a one-of-a-kind concert while guests dined on food specially made by chef Jose Garces.

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On March 15, guests arrived at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill to commemorate the 18th annual Stars for Stroke Gala hosted by the Delaware Valley Stroke Council. NBC 10’s Renee Chenault-Fattah led the black-tie event and guests honored Congressman Chaka Fattah, John J. Dougherty, as well as many others. Guests also participated in a silent auction and witnessed a live painting from Perry Milou, which was later auctioned off.

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Following the concert, celebrations continued as guests made their way to the Hyatt at The Bellevue hotel, where they danced to music by The Eddie Bruce Band and enjoyed an elegant dinner in the Grand Ballroom. All proceeds from the white-tie gala went toward the continuing restoration of the historic Philly landmark.

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To honor Philadelphia legend Allen Iverson, Mitchell & Ness partnered with Moore Management and Entertainment to host a VIP party celebrating the former Sixer’s retirement.

Guests like Matt Cord and Nick Marchetta joined the icon on February 28 at the Mitchell & Ness flagship store, where they enjoyed music spun by YS The DJ, stadium-style snacks by Starr Events, and a signature cocktail called “The Crossover.”

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To celebrate their new upcoming exhibition, “Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American,” The National Museum of American Jewish History hosted the Only in America Gala on March 11. Former Phillies players Doug Glanville and Bob Boone mingled with notables like Ed Rendell and Arn Tellem while getting a first look at the new exhibit and enjoying a cocktail party followed by a dinner located right near the baseball memorabilia.

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The National Kidney Foundation held its 30th Annual Kidney Ball on March 8. The black-tie affair honors local Philadelphia doctors who have made a difference in the medical community. Good Day Philadelphia’s Mike Jerrick hosted the event, and Ken Silver Orchestra and members from the Aqua String Band entertained guests, who also participated in live and silent auctions. Honorees included Fran Lynam and Dr. George Francos.

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hen Liza Cartmell was first tapped to lead Atlantic City’s grand revitalization project in 2011, her appointment seemed like nothing short of fate.

“I was raised on the beach in Monmouth County. As a kid, I lived in the water; I loved picnicking on the beach and riding the waves,” says the president of the Atlantic City Alliance, a private nonprofit tasked with rebuilding AC’s image. “It’s the reason I took the position—to make an impact in my hometown state, for such an important part of the economy, and for a beach community. It was the ultimate trifecta.”

A New Jersey native through and through, Cartmell’s resume screams overachiever. Her educational pedigree is impressive with an economics degree from Wellesley College (where she rowed crew) and an MBA from Columbia.

But add 20 years leading the entertainment charge at Aramark, where she was Group President of Aramark Sports and Entertainment, and it’s clear that she’s a driven change agent. continued on page 60

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Liza Cartmell with Mayor Don Guardian.

continued from page 59 And she’s not the only one in her Haddonfield household to make a professional— and athletic—mark. Cartmell’s husband, Paul, is the state’s former First Assistant Attorney General, who played baseball and football for Princeton. Her 7’1” son Brian helped lead Duke University to the 2010 NCAA basketball championship.

Daughter Sarah played basketball for Yale. Clearly the competitive spirit runs strong in Cartmell’s household.

Led by her Jersey-pride vision and $150 million in funding, the ACA is a marketing organization responsible for changing the public’s perception of Atlantic City from a casino-based gaming town into a premier, multi-night travel destination. “ACA made sense because I had a lot of experience running Aramark’s entertainment businesses and I was in charge of the national and state parks,” she says. “After the recession, they had to be marketed as destinations; before we never really had to do any marketing to bring in visitors. So it’s actually similar to what I’m doing now in AC.” Cartmell’s experience in the entertainment industry is evidenced in her first large-scale and übersuccessful effort to change people’s perceptions about Atlantic City: the ubiquitous Do Anything, Do Everything, Do AC campaign. A $20 million a year multimedia advertising blitz that includes TV, radio, digital ads, and social media, the campaign highlights the best of AC. “I’ve been really happy with the results,” says Cartmell. “I started to see our DO AC magnets popping up all over the region on cars,” she says. “After that, I started to see knockoffs everywhere around town where people adapted the logo for their own uses... DO Bar, DO Beach, DO Shop, DO Fun.” But Cartmell’s vision doesn’t begin and end with splashy ads. For her, it’s all about making sure that visitors have the same experiences she’s enjoyed her Liza Cartmell has helped AC whole life. “There are so many wonderful gems here, places I just love. Of rally with events course you have White House Subs or Tony Boloney’s, but my personal favorlike the DO AC Pro Beach ite are the blueberry pancakes at Gilchrist Restaurant in Gardner’s Basin.”

Volleyball Cartmell recommends the DO AC Sand Sculpting World Cup, held from Invitational.

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“Atlantic City offers the opportunity to create your own experience,” she says. “Visitors can do the beach thing where you’re barefoot and sandy, and then that night you put on your stilettos and go to a Wolfgang Puck or Bobby Flay restaurant, and head out to the club for an all-night party. And then the next day you’re back in your cutoffs dozing on the beach,” Cartmell laughs. Spoken like a true Jersey girl. PS

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*best ac-themed tv show or movie “1980’s Atlantic City of course!”

*favorite place to get saltwater taffy “James’ Salt Water Taffy on the iconic AC boardwalk.... Although I am partial to their chocolates and macaroons, too.”

*why ac over vegas “Beach, boardwalk, incomparable sunrises and sunsets.”

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Music Director Heather DeLuca broadcasts from the SoJO 104.9 station.

describe her rise in musical terms, her answer comes from an unexpected place. “It’s like Xanadu,” the 38-year-old says, laughing at herself. “It’s like the most panned movie ever made, but there was something about that soundtrack. If you had aspirations, you could make things happen for yourself.”

As a youth, the Erial, New Jersey, native often recorded songs off the radio, imitating the DJs and crafting her own playlists. “Music has always just been it for me,” she admits. “I never wanted to do anything else.” That led her to Temple University, interning at WYXR Star 104.5, and apprenticing under Philly media icon Nancy Glass before joining SoJO in 2009.

Favorite megahit: Now, with the station celebrating its 10th “Locked out of Heaven,” by Bruno year, she spearheads its “bridges-toMars. “He’s just got beaches” reach, which hits Philadelphia, such a cool factor.” most of southern New Jersey, and, on a Charities of clear day, the surrounding states. interest: March of On the air each day from 10 AM to 3 PM, Dimes, Emmanuel DeLuca thinks of her job in terms of Cancer Foundation curated five-song blocks—“each should be Potential song of a snapshot of what we can offer”—she says, the summer: Pharrell’s “Happy.” citing balance as the key to a good playlist.

“Every person On SoJO that means a mix of fun, poppy thinks, ‘Oh, that’s hits with alt-rock and a wild card thrown my jam!’” in here and there. “You have to throw a curveball every once in a while,” she explains, citing the runaway hit “Let it Go” from Disney’s Frozen as a recent unexpected breakout.

And in a digital age where her listeners have tens of thousands of songs at their fingertips at all times, DeLuca still believes in connecting to her listeners.

“They have their phones in their hands all the time, but the radio is still that human interaction you just can’t get over social media,” she says. “People call in saying, ‘My boyfriend doesn’t understand me. I need you to tell him.’ Suddenly the radio DJ says it, and you believe it. It’s still a very powerful medium.”

To celebrate a decade on the airwaves, the station SOJO 104.9 MUSIC DIRECTOR HEATHER DELUCA IS TUNED IN will host The Official SoJO 104.9 10th Birthday TO THE SOUL—AND SOUND—OF THE SHORE AS HER RADIO Concert starring Neon Trees on May 16, at House of STATION TURNS 10. BY JOHN VILANOVA Blues in Atlantic City, but in 2014 DeLuca and her team have also lent their voices to local charitable initiatives, partnering with groups like Autism Speaks hether prepping for a night out on the town or dealing with a and Atlantic City Rescue Mission. The latter, which provides shelter, food, bad breakup, certain people just seem to have a song ready and clothing to Atlantic City’s transient population and is celebrating its for every moment in life. For Heather DeLuca, music direc- 50th anniversary, is a passion project for DeLuca. “I’ve spent time cooking tor and disc jockey on South Jersey – based SoJO 104.9, the radio there in the kitchen,” she says. “You can ‘walk for’ anything, but I really created the soundtrack of her childhood as she tuned in to hear Hot 98.1 want to get in there myself.” She even has the perfect soundtrack: “It’s like and 93.3 WMMR’s local legend Pierre Robert. But when asked to ‘Last Night a DJ Saved My Life,’ right?” PS

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DelMoSports founder Stephen Del Monte shares his AC hangouts; his days begin with sunrise bike rides in Wildwood Crest.

The T Amazing Race STEPHEN DEL MONTE, WHOSE DELMOSPORTS WILL BRING EUROPE’S CHALLENGE TRIATHLON SERIES TO ATLANTIC CITY IN JUNE, TALKS ABOUT THE MANY PLACES AND FACES OF HIS BELOVED JERSEY SHORE.

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here’s no other place that Stephen Del Monte would rather live than down the Shore. It’s not that he didn’t try to settle down elsewhere: He worked as a teacher in Philly after college and moved to Florida for a few years before hearing summer’s call as the sun and sand eventually lured Del Monte back to his hometown of Wildwood. Today the family-friendly vacation spot where he and his wife are raising their two young children also serves as headquarters for Del Monte’s successful boutique race-planning firm DelMoSports. After founding annual Shore races like the Atlantic City Triathlon and Escape the Cape in Cape May, he will throw his largest race to date on June 29 when the European triathlon series known as Challenge lands stateside in AC. With 1,500 people from 22 countries expected to compete, Del Monte is most excited for participants to see firsthand why the Jersey Shore is such a special place.

“I grew up in a hotel that my parents owned in North Wildwood. It’s now called the Harbor Light Family Resort—we don’t own it anymore.

I would literally have to walk through the lobby and go behind the desk to get to our ‘front door.’ It wasn’t a very common upbringing, but it was the only thing I ever knew. I’d wind up making new friends every week, but during the summer, the same families would come back year after year.

I’m an avid cyclist, but with little kids (their favorite spot, Duffer’s mini golf and arcade, is half a mile from my house), I have to make time to go biking. So I’m up early and working out before dawn. I average about 20 to 30 miles each day, and I time my rides so that I can catch the sunrise each morning on the causeway between Wildwood Crest and Stone Harbor. We have the greatest sunrises in the continued on page 66

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Stephen Del Monte launched his first event, Escape the Cape, last year; post-race, he unwinds at Dos Caminos; his young children are his race-day support system.

WORTH A STOP continued from page 64 world at the Shore. There is nothing like them.

I had an epiphany when I drove onto the property of the Cape May-Lewes Ferry Terminal. I was thinking like a race director—a triathlete—and I saw the makings of a spectacular venue. That’s when I realized we could put on incredible, one-of-a-kind events down the Shore. That first event, Escape the Cape, put us on the map. It opened doors for us to produce events on a large scale. There are just so many incredible venues to do things around here. I could produce a hundred events around here.

I helped to found the Atlantic City Triathlon in 2011 because I’ve always liked to run the Atlantic City Boardwalk. You can have a nice long run and never have to worry about a car.

It’s quite possibly the world’s greatest running surface—with some of its strangest sights. But then again, I’ve run the Wildwood boardwalk so many times I can tell you where every misplaced board is. And there’s something special about doing this with the smell of funnel cakes in the air.

Some of the best views in Atlantic City can be found at The Pier Shops at Caesars.

There are seats next to the window that overlook the skyline and beaches. For date nights my wife and I go to Dos Caminos at

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Harrah’s Resort. The roasted plantain empanadas and margaritas are second to none. We might not even make it to our table and just hang out at the bar.

Challenge’s running route will go past every shore landmark including Lucy the Elephant and Revel, and the swim is in the back bay between Bader Field and the Atlantic City High School Boathouse. It’s all about wrapping all of the best of the Shore into one world-class race. The cycling part takes place on the Atlantic City Expressway. The fact that we’re going to be utilizing 40 miles of the expressway for a bike race is pretty incredible.

It’s unprecedented.

I’m most looking forward to running the Boardwalk at night with thousands of people on it. And our finish line in front of Boardwalk Hall is going to be lit up like none other—laser lights, TV cameras, bleachers full of fans—all the pageantry of a grand event. You can’t re-create that setting anywhere—literally—in America. And when you’re celebrating the completion of a 140.6-mile race that you conquered on your own—we’re talking about something really special.

Challenge Atlantic City takes place June 29; challengeatlanticcity.com PS

Stephen Del Monte picks his favorite places around the Jersey Shore.

Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 609-348-7000 Dos Caminos, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., Atlantic City, 609-4415747; doscaminos.com Duffer’s, 5210 Pacific Ave., Wildwood Crest, NJ, 609-7291817; dufferswildwood.com Lucy the Elephant, 9200 Atlantic Ave., Margate City, NJ, 609-823-6473; lucytheelephant.org Revel, 500 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 855-348-0500; revelresorts.com The Pier Shops at Caesars, One Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic City, 609-345-3100; thepiershopsatcaesars.com

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SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY

The Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor works to protect the fragile habitats of New Jersey’s shorebirds.

Where the Wild Things Are WITH EVENTS LIKE THE ANNUAL SPRING SHOREBIRD AND HORSESHOE CRAB FESTIVAL, DR. LENORE TEDESCO OF STONE HARBOR’S WETLANDS INSTITUTE KEEPS CONSERVATION EFFORTS FRONT AND CENTER. BY ROBERT STRAUSS

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tanding at the back door of the Wetlands Institute, Executive Director Dr. Lenore Tedesco looked out over the coastline soon after Hurricane Sandy had hit in October 2012. She saw devastation: The dock where she conducted research and where marsh tour boats launched was in shambles, and the surrounding boardwalk was decimated. Only a year removed from her longtime faculty and research job at the University of Indiana, Tedesco had been asked to help breathe new life into the 40-year-old conservation, research, and education facility along the marshes in Stone Harbor. Undaunted, Tedesco saw a silver lining in the wake of Sandy. “It gave

us a tremendous opportunity to get started on our vision of what this incredible place could become,” she says. “We had it slowly started, but Sandy made it a reality to move forward.”

Many of those dreams will be realized this spring. Tedesco has added new staff members for research, education, and conservation. The dock, boardwalk, and nearby marshes will be fully restored as tourist season begins in earnest. And the weekend of May 17, the Wetlands will host its second annual Spring Shorebird and Horseshoe Crab Festival, which highlights the shorebird migration and horseshoe crab continued on page 70 Dr. Lenore Tedesco guides guests during last year’s festival.

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Volunteers and Wetlands Institute employees tag and track birds for research purposes; horseshoe crabs are vital to the life cycle of the Jersey Shore.

continued from page 68 spawning season with guided naturalist walks and the chance to tag shorebirds for research.

Philadelphia Style talked with Tedesco about the Jersey Shore’s unique ecosystem.

What do you feel your mission is as executive director of such a respected nonprofit as the Wetlands Institute?

I am a researcher by background, so I wanted to make sure we continued with that in a bigger way and then integrated it with education and conservation. For instance, we do research on terrapins [turtles] here, and part of what we found is that when leaving the marshes, young terrapins fall into storm drains. So we have trained people to “adopt” storm drains—we give them long-handled nets to fish out the terrapins to bring them to safety. In the past year, we have saved more than 900 baby terrapins. It’s a lesson for those people in conservation, and it involves the community.

So what role will the new boardwalk serve? How will it be used?

The deck is a 770-foot loop that takes visitors to various spots along the marshes. It leads to a new research station, which is something important to help us monitor how the rise in water level will affect the marshes. After Sandy, we’ve been asking, “What will be happening, for instance, if there is another Sandy 15 years from now?” The research station will help us determine that, and visitors will be able to see how it works.

Tell us about the shorebird and horseshoe crab educational weekend.

Several breeds of shore birds and the horseshoe crab are either on endangered species lists or on federal wildlife watch lists. The crabs come out of their normal ocean-bottom habitats to spawn in the spring, but often once they get to

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“People’s relationship to the land is different in this kind of area, as is the conservation ethic, which is surprisingly strong.”

—DR. LENORE TEDESCO shore, the waves knock them upside down. This program allows volunteers to help rescue stranded horseshoe crabs. They would dry out and die, but this program enlists volunteers to help flip them back over, which saves them. It seems simple, but it is so important because other shore birds feed on those horseshoe crab eggs, so it is a complete cycle. Our “Return the Favor” program, as we call it, had people flip over 4,000 crabs last year. Once again, it is a combination of education and conservation.

What other kinds of education initiatives have you started recently?

We set up science courses for home-schooled children and have them come to the Institute at least once a week, programs where scouts can earn their merit badges and weeklong

education sessions for kids in the summer with the marshes and the beaches and the wildlife.

How is the Jersey Shore’s ecosystem different from the rest of the country?

People’s relationship to the land is different in this kind of area, as is the conservation ethic, which is surprisingly strong. They want to be at the Shore and they want to do the proper things here. This region is a pretty phenomenal place on Planet Earth—it’s a flyway for so many bird species and the marshes are unusual, vibrant places. There are things that happen in nature here that happen nowhere else. The Spring Shorebird and Horseshoe Crab Festival will take place May 17 and 18, 9 AM to 4 PM, at the Wetlands Institute, 1075 Stone Harbor Blvd., Stone Harbor, 609-368-1211; wetlandsinstitute.org PS

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The Cause: Raise awareness and honor breast cancer survivors on Mother’s Day during this annual 5K Run/ Walk and 1-Mile Fun Walk founded by Susan G. Komen and known for its pink-clad participants.

The Details: Sunday, May 11, at 7 AM at Eakins Oval at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., 215-238-8900; komenphiladelphia.org

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The Cause: Join Historic Philadelphia and Parx Casino for a night of cocktails, dinner, dancing, and auctions at this outdoor celebration to maintain the aesthetic and communal integrity of Franklin Square Park.

The Details: Thursday, May 15, at 5:30 PM at Franklin Square.

Sixth and Race Streets, 215-629-5801; historicphiladelphia.org

PREAKNESS AT THE PIAZZA

The Cause: Sport your most elaborate hat or dapper bow tie for a day at the derby hosted by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; all proceeds benefit education, wellness programs, and research initiatives for multiple sclerosis.

The Details: Saturday, May 17, at 5 PM at the Piazza in Northern Liberties. 1050 N. Hancock St.; preaknessatthepiazza.com

TOUR DE CURE

The Cause: Form a team or pedal solo through scenic Bucks and Montgomery counties for this fun cycling event to raise funds for diabetes research and education for the American Diabetes Association.

The Details: Saturday, June 7, at 6 am at Temple University Ambler Campus. 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, 610-828-5003; diabetes.org/tourdecurephilly

The Cause: CF Charities’ second annual fundraiser features dinner, dancing, and celebrity guests including racecar drivers from Indy and Nascar. This event benefits the graduating seniors scholarship fund and compassionate care fund, which help inner-city youth pursue careers as oral health professionals.

The Details: Saturday, June 7, at 6 PM at The Fuge. 780 Falcon Cir., Warminster, PA, 267-927-5000; cfcharities.org

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The Cause: Enjoy dinner created by top chefs from around the world to raise awareness for childhood cancer as well as the benefits of good nutrition. Proceeds will go to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and the Vetri Foundation for Children.

The Details: Tuesday, June 10, at 6 pm at the Urban Outfitters Headquarters in The Navy Yard. 5000 S. Broad St., 215-6000200; alexslemonade.org; vetrifoundation.org

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ecognized just as much for her outrageous wardrobe choices as for her soaring vocals, Lady Gaga has been shocking and captivating audiences around the world since she announced her presence in 2008 with the electric club anthem “Just Dance.” The five-time Grammy Award– winning pop music queen, on the heels of releasing her fourth studio album—the buzzed-about, high-concept Artpop—is one of the world’s foremost entertainers, with elaborate videos and stage performances making her the premier multimedia artist of her generation. ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, Gaga’s much-anticipated return to the stage, hits Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on June 28.

Even though style experts may gawk at her never-before-seen clothing creations and critics are quick to label her pretentious and bizarre, there’s no denying that Gaga has been a game changer in both the fashion and performance spheres.

“If you look at the majority of music videos from other artists today, everybody seems to be taking bits and pieces from her,” says George “Spanky” McCurdy, a Philadelphia native and seasoned drummer now on his third consecutive tour with the singer.

Although a broken hip caused her to cancel many dates on the North American leg of her Born This Way Ball tour in 2013, it was still the second-highest-grossing tour for a female artist worldwide in 2012, and Gaga boasted the second-highest earnings among musicians in 2013. And though the enigmatic diva remains often impenetrably “poker-faced,” McCurdy, who grew up in Philly’s Olney section, paints a different picture altogether.

“She is crazy and just very funny,” he says. “A lot of people aren’t always comfortable around her because of who she is, but then she’ll crack a joke and they realize she’s just a regular person. We joke around a lot, but you have to know her [to see that side].”

Gaga’s eccentric, fiercely creative personality has not only influenced her fellow performers, but it is what keeps her “Little Monsters” fan base intrigued and clawing for more. It’s no surprise that working so closely with her is just as fascinating. “[There’s] never a dull moment,” says McCurdy, who has also collaborated with Justin Timberlake and Kanye West. “As far as the shows and tours, she [freestyles] every night, so there’s always a certain part of the show where you’re like, Wow did she really just say or do that? I love that—it keeps you on your toes.”

As for what will differentiate ArtRave from past tours, McCurdy’s lips are tightly sealed: “I can’t share any secrets, but with Gaga, the bar always has to be raised—she’s always 30 steps ahead. Jaws will drop, that’s for sure.” Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 609-3487000; boardwalkhall.com PS

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Eastern Time ART BASEL’S SECOND ANNUAL FAIR BLENDS THE BEST OF ASIA AND THE WEST. BY SUE HOSTETLER

“The highlight is being part of that experience of discovery when collectors come to know artists they have not yet seen.”

—MAGNUS RENFREW

artists, is shaping up to be particularly exceptional. A $25,000 prize will be awarded to one of nearly 30 participants of this sector at the end of the week, a unique element of ABHK that is not seen at other fairs. Much preshow buzz has surrounded the funky Irish gallery Mother’s Tankstation and its presentation of the work of Sydney-based artist Noel McKenna, whose figurative pieces contemplate the human condition and make him one to watch in Discoveries.

Also creating excitement is the Encounters sector—featuring large-scale sculptural and installation pieces—which is being curated by Japan’s highly regarded Yuko Hasegawa of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

“Last year Yuko’s selection spurred a compelling discourse around contrasting generational and cultural approaches to artistic practices,” says Renfrew.

“I have every confidence that her program this year will again present ambitious works that act as conversation points throughout the exhibition halls.”

And one of Miami’s most beloved events—the Film sector—will debut in Hong Kong this year, developed by multimedia artist and curator Li Zhenhua and hosted in partnership with the Hong Kong Arts Centre.

These types of collaborations with local institutions help Art Basel recognize, support, and promote the exploding contemporary art scene in Hong Kong. Not only is the government pouring billions of dollars into developing a cultural district in West Kowloon, but the new M+, an CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Show director Magnus Renfrew; an aerial view of Art Basel in Hong Kong; The Churchgoing Satanist (Earplugs) by Hernan Bas, 2012, exhibited by Lehmann Maupin gallery.

PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LEHMANN MAUPIN, NEW YORK AND HONG KONG (THE CHURCHGOING SATANIST); ART BASEL (AERIAL VIEW, RENFREW). OPPOSITE: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALERIE ORA-ORA (EMBROIDERY SERIES); MCH MESSE SCHWEIZ (ART BASEL)

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n just a few short years, Hong Kong has been transformed from a city that many considered a cultural desert to the fourth-largest global market for contemporary art, according to Artprice, an art market information source, with more than $130 million sold in 2013, partially due to record-setting auctions and the rise of billionaire art collectors in China. As recently as 2008, there were no major art fairs, but the visionaries behind the powerful Art Basel shows in Switzerland and Miami Beach helped push the cultural renaissance forward last year when they debuted Art Basel in Hong Kong.

Basel’s second annual art fair—which opens Thursday, May 15 and features a slate of 245 of the world’s most-influential galleries from 39 countries—will help add even more international credibility and exposure to the Asian art market. “Every fair has its own mission and vision,” says show director Magnus Renfrew, “and Art Basel in Hong Kong aspires to provide a fair for Asia of global stature and the highest quality while retaining its unique regional flavor. Hong Kong has long been regarded as the portal connecting the East and the West. It is a major financial hub and as such is designed to allow for more professional and efficient transactions.”

This year’s show will be marked by a continuation of the strong programming that is a hallmark of the two other Art Basel shows. The Discoveries sector, which is dedicated to solo and two-person exhibitions by emerging

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ambitious Herzog & de Meuron–designed world-class museum, slated for completion in 2017, further illustrates Hong Kong’s commitment to its future support of the visual arts. But maybe the most significant indicator is the number of respected western galleries like Gagosian, White Cube, and Lehmann Maupin that have opened Hong Kong outposts over the last few years. These dealers along with influential homegrown stalwarts such as 10 Chancery Lane, Galerie Ora-Ora, and Pearl Lam are instrumental in developing and nurturing the careers of artists and collections in the region.

According to Renfrew, these relationships with the local galleries and institutions (including Asia Art Archive, Para/Site, the Asia Society, and Spring Workshop) are imperative to ABHK as they create a show “grounded in the city.” “We want to promote longterm arts infrastructure development and encourage associated programming across the city,” says Renfrew.

“The growth of Hong Kong’s museum sector and contemporary arts education will truly impact the larger discourse in the city, and that is something that we aim—through long-term partnerships—to cultivate.”

The fair’s impact and thematic reach is sure to be much broader than just the Asian region. One needs to look no further than the talks planned as part of the Conversations and Salon programs. A discussion titled the “Global Art World/Making Biennials” will feature luminaries Juliana Engberg, artistic director of the 2014 Biennale of Sydney and artistic director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Eungie Joo, curator of

the 2015 Sharjah Biennial; and Jessica Morgan, artistic director of the 10th Gwangju Biennale and The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art at the Tate Modern, London, moderated by Hou Hanru, artistic director at Maxxi Museum in Rome. “This is a conversation that has real international relevancy, reflecting the transitional reality of today’s art world,” explains Renfrew. Programming such as this, coupled with a rapidly maturing Asian art market and the resurgence of Chinese art exhibitions across the US, will undoubtedly help draw record numbers of highly informed collectors to the fair this month.

With so much anticipation building around the fair, what does Renfrew most look forward to? “The highlight is exposing new audiences to the depth of work from the broader Asian region, and being part of that experience of discovery when collectors come to know artists they have not yet seen… or when curators have an opportunity to join in dialogue with artists whose work they have long followed.” PS For more information about ABHK, visit artbasel.com/en/hong-kong.

LOCAL LANDSCAPES “The most provocative aspect of the current Asian art market is that there are artists like Ai Wei Wei, who are not allowed to return [home, while] other artists’ works are being purchased by the Chinese government.”

—ANGELINE MAY, LOCAL PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER “The prices currently being paid for high-quality Chinese items are at an unprecedented height. In Philadelphia, Freeman’s Asian Art sales have become some of the most significant auctions on the company’s calendar.”

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THIS ISSUE: JERSEY FRESH Scarduzio’s sushi chef Armiyant Setiyaki, aka Chef Harry, prepares and serves his Mosaic Roll.

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he shortest distance between two points is, of course, a straight line.

For chef Chris Scarduzio, that line could easily be called The Atlantic City Expressway. Almost daily, the intrepid restaurateur drives eastward from his home in Delaware County, crosses the bridge, and then heads toward Scarduzio’s Steak, Sushi and Lounge, his namesake restaurant within the Showboat Hotel and Casino. Before the last filet has been plated and the last high roller sated, though, he’s back on the Expressway, rolling along to his other renowned culinary venture, Avance, the exceptional fine-dining operation he manages with his new business partner, chef Justin Bogle. Since opening this past December at 1523 Walnut Street, Avance has been nothing short of a full house.

But back at his steakhouse, Scarduzio takes a moment’s respite before

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heading back to Philly. With his thick tangle of dark hair, keen black eyes, and patrician nose, Scarduzio’s visage appears as if it should be stamped on a Roman coin—or at least on a chip hitting the tables in the noisy casino around his culinary haven. “This is my Zen,” he says. “The restaurant is so completely out of the box; the combining of fire with raw—it’s a pairing that’s never been done like this before in AC. It’s a concept that really works.”

Now in its third summer season, Scarduzio’s offers a tri-national experience: a synthesis of American, Japanese, and Italian fare. The cuisines feel legitimately integrated, as the juxtaposition of meat and fish dishes provide a true culinary yin and yang. The 165-seat dining room—with its high-slung arches, deep-set booths, and giant goblet chandeliers—pays homage to the continued on page 80

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW KAHL

WITH AVANCE HUMMING IN PHILLY, RESTAURATEUR CHRIS SCARDUZIO GEARS UP FOR ANOTHER BUSY SUMMER AT HIS NAMESAKE AC SUSHI STEAKHOUSE. BY KEN ALAN

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continued from page 78 grandeur of a refined Italian steakhouse.

But, surprisingly, in the 35-seat lounge, there’s an environment of calm. Lacquered woods, tasteful Japanese artwork, and a bamboo-lined bar create a tranquil oasis from the casino cacophony. This is where Scarduzio’s offers a spectrum’s worth of pleasures: a place to chill with a carafe of sake and a plate of sushi or to celebrate with —CHRIS SCARDUZIO a magnum of red wine and a thick, sizzling sirloin steak. Or both. Whatever the predilection, it’s obvious: This is a place where players exhale. Where else in AC can one first enjoy a fiery roe-flecked maki (rolled so large it almost requires a third chopstick) and then delve lovingly into a soulful bowl of homemade cavatelli?

This season, Scarduzio’s is offering a Shore-inspired spin on sushi, fashioning the rice and those pristine cuts of fish into the shape of flipflops, and the surf side of the menu also features sushi-grade tuna and Norwegian salmon. Turf lovers will be glad to know that all cuts of beef come directly from the dry-aging gods at DeBragga, considered one of Manhattan’s top-rated butchers. “We’re the only place in AC featuring its beef,” the chef says about his USDA Prime certified offerings.

Behind the bar, General Manager Chris Barnett offers libations that pair sensibly with the moods and motifs of Scarduzio’s. Steakhouse cocktail staples like martinis and Manhattans morph gloriously into specialized concoctions with creative twists, such as a cucumber and green-tea-tinged martini made potent with Tanqueray Ten gin, yet remaining subtle thanks to drifting pink islands of fresh ginger. The Duzi

incorporates the chef’s favorite spirit—Patrón Silver tequila— with fresh lemon and lime juices intermingled with a Medi mélange of red sangria and limoncello floating just below a sugared rim. Sake, too, is replete here. Chilled carafes and fourounce tasting pours abound, from the earthy notes of the Eiko Fuji Glorious Mt. Fuji sake to the incomparable and silken Seikyo Mirror of Truth. On this night we are all about a carafe of Ty Ku— super-premium Junmai Ginjo sake infused with vodka—a 21st-century take on this traditional spirit.

“How would I describe this restaurant?” the chef posits as he readies to wash up, hop in his car, and head to his next gig. “It’s a steakhouse, one offering the best sushi on the island. Of course, you’ll always find one or two of my grandmother’s Italian recipes slipped into the mix,” he laughs, before driving off to his next (great) culinary destination. PS

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Just in time for summer, Scarduzio’s sushi chef, Armiyant Setiyaki (known simply as “Chef Harry” by his coworkers), has created a fun and stylish take on cooked rice and raw fish called the sushi sandal. Setiyaki fashions rice into a molded platform base while covering it in a delicate soy wrap and then threads it with snipped nori like tiny “straps.”

Each night he will feature a different garnish as a topping for this tasty “flip-flop.”

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW KAHL

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rganic. Local. Sustainable. These phrases flavor modern menus like kale, kimchi, and shaved black truffle. At the Shore, where chefs have the ocean at their doorsteps and farmland at their backs, the access to ingredients that fit the “Garden State-to-plate” philosophy has created a uniquely rich setting for locavore living. And as our gardens begin to bear the fruits of local labor, the results are—in a word—delicious.

Consider the scallops at The Ebbitt Room, the fine-dining jewel of Cape May society at The Virginia Hotel (25 Jackson St., Cape May, 609-884-5700; caperesorts.com). Fresh-harvested, crusted in bacon, seared and posed on a purée of vanilla-scented corn with charred leeks, grilled fennel, and a preserved tomato marmalade, it’s “a dish where almost all of its ingredients came off the farm,” says chef Anthony Micari.

Micari sources produce from Beach Plum

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Farm (140 Stevens St., West Cape May, 609-8499019; caperesorts.com), a 62-acre spread that supplies chicken, eggs, pork, lamb, honey, and produce to the restaurants at The Virginia and its big brother, Congress Hall. By the height of the season, the land is pumping out heirloom tomatoes, exotic melons, microherbs, salad

greens, eggplants, chilies, and much, much more, which helps The Ebbitt Room maintain 90 percent sustainability off the farm.

Meanwhile, at Revel’s airy, blue and white Azure by Allegretti (500 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 609-340-0003; revelresorts.com), where oysters, peaches, melons, and scallops pack summer menus, chef/owner Alain Allegretti says strong, collaborative relationships with local farmers have been crucial to his success. “I can discuss dishes with them I would like to introduce, and we work together to find the perfect ingredients,” says the chef, who grew up surrounded by local produce on his family’s farm in Provençe.

Sourcing from small local farms can be a challenge for large resorts, but chefs such as Allegretti and Aram Mardigian of Borgata’s Wolfgang Puck American Grille (1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, 609-317-1000; theborgata.com) remain continued on page 84

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continued from page 82 committed. There, Jersey corn soup and pork chops with grilled peaches are seasonal staples. “It makes a huge difference in the flavor and presentation of the food because it travels less to get to your restaurant and maintains the local economy by promoting sustainability,” Mardigian says. “It can be difficult with huge resorts to maintain sustainable food systems with the amount of volume that we do. It takes a lot of hard work and may cost a little more, but it’s worth it.”

Even in the winter, Micari, a Somers Point native, now plots out how best to make use of the whole growing season. “We start planning how the crops will influence our summer menus,” he says.

Meanwhile, shoregoers—and aspiring culinary artisans—can even source their own produce from Beach Plum on summer Saturdays.

At The Ebbitt Room, plans are even underway to dip a toe—or a fork—into the Atlantic, too, by expanding The Ebbitt Room’s ceviche program with local oysters, fluke, and swordfish. “We’re really preserving that live-off-the-land mentality,” Micari says. He expects a bountiful harvest. PS

MARKET FRESH Early-adopter Luke Palladino discusses the past and present of local dining down the Shore.

“In 2001 when I started working with Borgata, I ate around Atlantic City to see who was doing what,” remembers chef Luke Palladino, who now runs Luke Palladino at Harrah’s Resort (777 Harrah’s Blvd., Atlantic City, 609-441-5000; harrahsresort.com) and Luke’s Kitchen & Marketplace at Revel (500 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 609-340-0003; revelresorts.com). “There wasn’t a whole lot going on.”

He recalls white, mealy tomatoes, even during peak season. “There’s a whole culture of farmers here, most of them Italian,” says Palladino, who has also worked as part of the slow food movement in Italy. Stateside, he saw nothing European about how chefs were sourcing ingredients at the Shore. “I had to strong-arm the main distributor here,” he laughs, recalling early visits with local farmers at the Zone 7 co-op (freshfromzone7.com). “I said, ‘If you want our business, you have to get their produce because it’s the best.’”

Zone 7 tomatoes, for instance, become Palladino’s NJ tomato sauce, which bathes his signature Nonna’s meatballs and other dishes at his AC restaurants. Local sustainability is the backbone of their service, and thanks to Palladino’s infrastructure, Jersey produce has become as integral a part of AC summer dining as boardwalk fries.

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or all the talk in recent years about custom cocktails, it’s beer that has shoregoers most excited for the upcoming summer season— specifically lighter, more crisp styles like those modeled on Belgian wheats, French saisons, and classic pilsners. Restaurants and bars all over Atlantic City are finally giving these craft beers the attention they deserve, and with large-format bottles, special kegs, and even foods paired specifically with suds, AC is poised to become one of the region’s top destinations for artisanal brews.

“We have a really wide selection of craft beer, which is growing all the time,” says Paul Tonacci, certified sommelier and managing partner of Atlantic City Bottle Company (648 N. Albany Ave., 609-348-6400; acbottle company.com). ACBC’s chef’s table features a tasting menu, each course of which is paired with a pitch-perfect drink, from locals like Victory Brewing Company’s Prima Pils to Utah’s Uinta Brewing Co.’s Cockeyed Cooper barley wine ale. “When we first opened, things leaned more toward wine and whiskey. But we’ve had an overwhelming response to our craft beers.”

The Continental (The Pier Shops at Caesars, 1 Atlantic Ocean, 609-674-8300, continentalac.com) will tempt passionate craft-beer aficionados. Including Pennsylvania standouts like Tröegs’s Nugget Nectar, Yards’ Rye and IPA, and Colorado’s creamy Left Hand Milk Stout, Continental’s craft selection is one of the strongest in town. “Just last year, we added a ‘craft’ portion to our Continental menu and its success has been incredible,” says general manager Chris Linaris. “We have since doubled our selection of amazing breweries from across the country. And we will continue to host our quarterly craft beer dinners.”

And if it’s hyper-local you’re looking for, head on over to Tun Tavern (2 Continental Blvd., 609-347-7800; tuntavern.com), a highly regarded restaurant and brewery right in AC. The beers run the gamut from the exceptionally refreshing Tun Light all the way to the heartier Leatherneck Stout. Tun Tavern has even leveraged Cascade and Nugget hop varietals grown right in the Garden State for their All American IPA. All of which means one thing: This promises to be a refreshing, beautifully beersoaked summer in AC. And tastier than it’s ever been before. PS

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SEA SIDES When: A late spring lunch.

What: Crab cake with Asian-pear slaw and the lobster thermidor with filet mignon.

Where: Knife & Fork Inn, 3600 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, 609-3441133; knifeandforkinn.com CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE:

Pinky Kravitz, radio personality and local legend, dined at The Knife & Fork Inn while talking with Philadelphia Style; a crab cake with Asian pear slaw and red pepper coulis.

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inky Kravitz remembers his first big headline mention in the Press of Atlantic City. He was the last guy off the bench on the 1944 New York University basketball team, a 6-foot-4 freshman on scholarship from Atlantic City High. At the time, the NYU team record for its home games at Madison Square Garden was a mere 76 points.

But with NYU beating Temple by 20, the coach put Kravitz in for mopup duty, and a late basket scored points 77 and 78—a new record.

“The next day, the headline in the Press read, ‘Kravitz Breaks Madison Square Garden Record,’” says Kravitz about the misleading headline in his hometown paper. In the ensuing decades, he would go on to become Atlantic City’s most unabashed and outspoken promoter—the captain of the city’s proverbial “all-broadcast team.” In

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November, the now-86-year-old celebrated his 55th anniversary as a five-day-a-week radio personality for WOND, and over the years he has interviewed everyone from Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Marilyn Monroe to contemporary celebs over our airwaves. He has also maintained a weekly column for the Press, “Pinky’s Corner,” and hosted a TV show each Saturday on NBC 40.

Most Fridays you’ll find this legend of the boardwalk having a leisurely lunch at another AC institution—the iconic Knife & Fork Inn. Owned for more than 50 years by the two most prominent restaurant families in the city—first the Latzes, and now the Doughertys—the Knife & Fork had its own star turn in the 1980 Louis Malle film Atlantic City, continued on page 90

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VETERAN ATLANTIC CITY BROADCASTER PINKY KRAVITZ, ONE OF THE CITY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL VOICES OVER THE PAST SIX DECADES, TALKS DINING, DELIS, AND VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AT ANOTHER AC STANDBY—THE KNIFE & FORK INN. BY ROBERT STRAUSS

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Pinky Kravitz has had a standing Friday lunch reservation at The Knife & Fork Inn for decades; the restaurant’s dining room has ocean views; the lobster thermidor with filet mignon.

continued from page 88 with Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon sitting down in its dining room. But no matter the locale—if you’re in Atlantic City, you’re in “Pinky’s Corner.”

Why The Knife & Fork Inn? It really is a vestige of the old Atlantic City.

You always see people here. Mr. Latz was a fierce individual. If you didn’t have a tie on, you couldn’t get in, but he would stand there without a tie or socks. I like sitting on the first level adjacent to the bar so I can see the ocean out the window, and I love the corn and crab chowder soup. The crab cakes, too, are outstanding.

And where else can you be found besides the Knife & Fork today?

“I’m just a local yokel, but I have always tried to give people a place to express their views and voice their concerns.”

—PINKY KRAVITZ

Angelo’s for Italian and Gilchrist Restaurant for breakfast. At Steve & Cookie’s in Margate, they also make good crab cakes, but I have whatever specialties Cookie comes up with. Of course, there is White House for subs—Atlantic City is a “sub” place. We have nothing like “hoagies.”

You’ve seen a lot of restaurants come and go. Are there any you miss?

Six decades of writing and broadcast in one town is amazing.

Have you had any moments of late that bring things full circle?

At my 55th anniversary party in November, I got a letter with no stamp—it just had the heading: Vice President of the United States.

Now, I don’t know if Biden really wrote it, but who would have thought some guy from Atlantic City would ever get a letter from the Vice President’s office? I’m just a local yokel, but I have always tried to give people a place to express their views and voice their concerns.

You always have something going on to promote. What are you excited about now?

With Miss America coming back to Atlantic City, I thought we needed

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a statue of Miss America. So this summer, you will see a bronze statue of Miss America across from Boardwalk Hall; people can stand with her and have a photo of themselves being “crowned.” I also thought there needed to be something new for the veterans, so I helped start the Armed Forces Parade last year and was chosen as Grand Marshal. The parade on August 11 will be the lead up to the Air Show on August 13, which 75,000 people saw last year. And we have moved the big boardwalk replica billboard from HBO’s Boardwalk Empire to the parking lot near Resorts. It’s the most popular place for tourists to take photos—it just brings Atlantic City to life. PS

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The Venice on Mississippi Avenue. Senator Frank Farley would be there on Friday evenings, and if you were lucky, he asked you to sit at his big table. He would pick up the check and say, “See you at the house at 11,” and since he was the boss, you would have to go. We would play Scrabble; he was the best on two-letter words. Then there was Kornblau’s at Virginia and Pacific Avenues. It was the go-to deli where you would get pastrami or chicken soup with matzo balls. Today, there is no deli like it in all of Atlantic City.

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Growing Up Fisher CELEBRATING HER EPONYMOUS LABEL’S 30TH BIRTHDAY, EILEEN FISHER DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF GREENING HER FASHION LINE. BY ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

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o fashion line has a commitment to principled thinking—sus- ucts designed to last and to be easy to care for,” says Fisher.

“Simplicity is at the core of the design idea I planted as a seed tainability, social consciousness, living well—more ingrained in its corporate ethos than Eileen Fisher. This fall will mark 30 all those years ago—a collective of simple shapes that work years since the former interior and graphic designer set up shop, mak- together in many ways. The intention is to ‘solve her ing her name as much about putting out gorgeous, simply constructed problem’ by giving women the pieces to put themselves together easily and joyfully so they can pieces as running a community-focused company ecosystem. focus on life,” Fisher says, Initiatives like Green Eileen, a line of stores reflecting on the business’s stocking only used Eileen Fisher pieces, and upcoming birthday. #SheDocs, an online documentary film festival Marking a new stage of growth sponsored by the company, have made waves for the company is The Fisher recently and Fisher wouldn’t have it any other way.

Project, a new 30-piece collection “Business has the power to make a difference and that takes the essential elements can be a movement around social change,” she of the Eileen Fisher look but says. “Our work with women and girls, human with unexpected features like rights, and the environment and how we work as a —EILEEN FISHER cropped silhouettes, sheer company completes the circle—it’s about the product, people, and planet and the choices each of us make every single day.” fabrics, and backless styles. The line will be featured The commitment to ethical living is, in fact, literally woven into the heavily at Nordstrom at King of Prussia Mall’s line’s fabrics. “Sustainability starts with design. When we select fabrics Eileen Fisher fashion show, which will be held and yarns, we are making choices about better farming practices, on May 3. It’s like a cherished favorite’s new greener dyes, and innovative production to build an eco collection that awakening. King of Prussia Mall, 610-768accounts for more than 25 percent of our line. We work to create prod- 7150; eileenfisher.com PS

“Business has the power to make a difference and be a movement around social change.”

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Trunk Show Louis Vuitton looks to its iconic travel trunks for a line of fine jewelry arriving in AC. Glittering citrine, amethyst, and smoky quartz gemstones lie at the center of Louis Vuitton’s new “Emprise” fine jewelry collection, which includes pendants, rings, metal bangles, and earrings.

Specifically, the line pays tribute to the French fashion house’s signature monogrammed trunks by incorporating distinctive elements such as corner caps, nail heads, and metal framing into the designs. Minimalist gemstone pendants feature octagonal stones encased in yellow or white gold and outlined in studs, while chain-link tassels hang from the collection’s more intricate drop earrings. Most spectacular are the diamondencrusted cocktail rings featuring saturated tourmaline, aquamarine, and heliodore stones in the center. Available at Louis Vuitton’s luxe boutique at The Pier Shops, the exquisite ring is, indeed, the accessory to covet this season. The Pier Shops at Caesars, 1 Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic City, 609-343-0177; louisvuitton.com

This Emprise collection ring (price on request) boasts a large heliodore gem with an array of diamonds.

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Designer Zac Posen will team up with Daisy Day for a runway show at the Hyatt at The Bellevue on May 8.

Pockets Full of Posen ZAC POSEN’S ELEGANT GOWNS MAKE A SPLASH IN PHILADELPHIA FOR THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL DAISY DAY LUNCHEON. BY ALEXANDRIA GEISLER KNOWN FOR HIS RED CARPET GOWNS AND SOPHISTICATED DAYWEAR, womenswear designer Zac Posen will showcase his latest collection in an exclusive fashion show at the Hyatt at The Bellevue on May 8. Sponsored by Saks Fifth Avenue, the event is part of the Daisy Day committee’s annual fundraising luncheon, benefiting The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and will include auctions and a raffle. On the runway will be Posen’s Spring/Summer 2014 collection, inspired by Impressionist-era artwork. Rendered in soft shades of ballet pink, lemon, and mint, ethereal, tea-length dresses feel especially pretty, though the floor-skimming gowns with delicate, cascading ruffles leave the biggest impression. “I am very excited to showcase my Fall collection at Saks in Philadelphia and to collaborate with Daisy Day to support the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,” the designer says. “After all, it’s ‘the city that loves you back.’” Saks Fifth Avenue, 2 Bala Plaza, Bala Cynwyd, 610-667-1550; saks.com; daisyday.chop.edu PS

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A Day to Detox FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR DANIELLE GOMES REVEALS HER FAVORITE PLACES FOR PAMPERING AND RELAXATION IN ATLANTIC CITY.

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Author of Hit Me! Fighting the Las Vegas Mob by the Numbers, Danielle Gomes moved from Nevada to Atlantic City eight years ago, and ever since, the West Coast transplant has been uncovering the city’s best places for beauty and relaxation. “I love to go to BASK BY EXHALE AT REVEL [500 Boardwalk, 609-340-0003; revelresorts.com],” she says. “They have a co-ed, communal area with an indoor pool, a hot tub, a salt room, and a bar in a setting that feels as though you are in an Arabian bathhouse fit for royalty.” Gomes opts for the spa’s deep-tissue massage before lounging in the detoxifying salt room. For facial treatments, she likes to indulge in one of the deluxe options at BLUEMERCURY (Tropicana Casino and Resort, 2801 Pacific Ave., 609-347-7778; bluemercury.com). “They have quick, skin-specific services, and I love the Fresh perfumes and washes they use,” she says. “I get their microdermabrasion facial.”

For cosmetics Gomes favors CHANEL (Macy’s, 4401 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing, NJ, 609-646-4900; macys.com) with its vibrant cream shadows, lip gloss, and moisturizers. “The Le Blanc line is wonderful for moisturizing” she says. One must-have is the French fashion house’s Illusion D’ombre, a versatile gel that can pull double-duty as eye shadow or eyeliner. Though, she divulges: “I have an additional sort of secret weapon. I use organic coconut oil on my face and body nightly.”

“If I have an event such as a book signing, I will get a gel manicure at DIVA NAIL SPA [801 Tilton Road, Northfield, NJ, 609-277-2165],” she says. This spring, saccharine pastels like dove gray and punchy shades of coral are her go-to nail colors, noting that Essie has the best selection: “I usually do something bright for my fingers and something more soft and neutral on my toes.” For haircare, Gomes swears by ART IS. (301 14th St., South Brigantine, NJ, 609-266-9212; artissalon.com), a boutique salon in Brigantine where she has been a client for the past three years. “I am extraordinarily picky when it comes to my haircuts,” she says, recommending Kristin for blow-outs at the salon and Danni for cuts. “I have naturally wavy hair that can be difficult to manage as it’s thick and unruly, but Danni does an incredible job!” PS

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TIME KEEPER

The “Camper of the Day” at Campowerment receives one of these three timepieces from the Alor Collection series of timepieces ($795– $895) as a reward. Available at Govberg Jewelers, 65 St. James Pl., Ardmore, 610-6641715; alor.com

Mountain Standard Time AT CAMPOWERMENT—A POSITIVITY AND EMPOWERMENT SUMMIT THIS MAY IN THE POCONOS—TAMMI LEADER FULLER AND ALOR TIMEPIECES HELP BUSY PHILLY WOMEN RETAKE CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES. BY ROBERTA NAAS

“Camp is about stopping, breathing, thinking, taking a leap of faith, and putting your trust in yourself and others for three and a half days.”

—TAMMI LEADER FULLER

And though campers often lose track of time while finding themselves in nature, Alor, a Swiss-made watch brand with California roots whose mission dovetails beautifully with Fuller’s, has also devoted itself to the Campowerment cause. “We’re a brand primarily focused on women and one that values a woman’s time, so partnering with Campowerment was a natural fit,” says brand principal Ori Zemer. “Our brand motto, ‘It’s About Time, It’s About Me,’ aligns perfectly with Campowerment’s mission of celebrating and empowering women. This is exactly the type of organization we were seeking to show our support for women and our understanding that they need to make time for themselves.”

Fuller admits that although it is “cabin” living with shared showers and bathrooms, it’s still upscale. “There are flowers in the cabins, and we make s’mores with gourmet chocolate,” she jokes, adding that the only rule at Campowerment is that no one is allowed to share what they do for a living for the first 24 hours. “Sweatpants are the great equalizer.

We need to get to know one another as the women we are first.”

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or many, the thought of sleep-away camp recalls fireside chats, singalongs, and letters to and from home. But a new generation of campers are writing much different missives than their youthful predecessors thanks to Campowerment, a series of leadership and revitalization refuges where women get the chance to step outside of their comfort zones, dare to experience life differently, and refocus to remind themselves that they’re much more than just “wives,” “mothers,” or “employees.”

“Women are all about doing everything,” says Tammi Leader Fuller, Campowerment’s CEO (Camp Empowerment Officer), who launched the program two years ago and will host her latest retreat May 8–11 at Woodlands Retreat in the Poconos. “We are so busy planning and thinking of others that we have little time in our lives for us. We may have career choices, personal choices, and other decisions to make, but we put them off because we don’t take the time we should.”

Fuller, a former Emmy Award– winning TV producer and stressed-out mother who left an entertainment career of more than 30 years to start Campowerment, seeks out traditional summer camp venues and utilizes them when they are not in session. With upcoming camps in California, the Catskills, and the Poconos, Fuller offers a combination of physical challenges (yoga and Zumba, plus hikes and rope courses) and mental enhancement (meditation, workshops, etc.) to help women “reignite.”

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continued from page 100 someone who has shared a particularly difficult story, come to a life-changing realization, broken out of her comfort zone, or simply embraced the concept of “time out for me”— and awards them with a watch from the brand’s Alor, Cavo, or 1979 collections. “I think Alor is revolutionary in that they cater to women and they are willing to make this journey with us to help women experience real time,” Fuller notes.

And although a luxury watch might seem an unlikely keepsake from a back-to-basics weekend, Alor president and Ori’s mother, Sandy Zemer, believes the brand can be a reminder of the weekend’s lessons. “Our motto is the key to our company core values. It resonates because taking time for yourself is essential to continue to feel strong and capable. It has made my own life of wearing many hats a real success.”

One of the key strategies of the program is to get campers to realize that they are not alone in their issues, bringing them together for a weekend that will resonate long after they’ve left Fuller’s friendly confines. “Camp is about stopping, breathing, thinking, taking a leap of faith, and putting your trust in yourself and others for three and a half days,” she says. “[It] will have you thinking differently when you leave.”

Brannan Sheridan, a recent California camper, echoes Fuller’s mission statement. “You would have to go to so many different people to get the kind of counseling and encouragement you get from all of the instructors during the three-day weekend,” she says. “You have it all in one place here, and other women who share and support you. What I left Campowerment with was deeper and more lasting than a simple getaway. It turned out to be one of the most liberating, thought-provoking weekends I’ve ever had.” campowerment.com PS For more watch features and expanded coverage, go to phillystylemag.com/watches.

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The Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin 1931 by Jaeger-LeCoultre ($18,800) features a cordovan leather strap made by famed bootmaker, Casa Fagliano, in the polo capitol of the world, Buenos Aires.

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hiladelphia is a city of exuberant equestrians. From the Devon Horse Show (May 22–June 1), perhaps the oldest multibreed equine event in America, to Brandywine Polo (beginning May 26), the Sport of Kings has a strong “hoofhold” with the hometown set. Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre has always had a bit of a horse sense, designing its original Reverso in 1931 so that the face could turn inward to allow players to wear it on the polo field without risk of the crystal being shattered. Since its initial release, the Reverso has been one of the most popular pieces in the brand’s stable.

Elegantly crafted in 18k pink gold and featuring a chocolate dial, the Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin 1931 debuted at this year’s Salon International de la Haute Horologie in Geneva. This Art Deco– inspired watch is the third in a trilogy of timepieces that celebrates the 80th anniversary of the first Reverso and features a sleek 7.3mm case complete with its swivel reversing mechanism. It houses a manually wound movement (Calibre 822/2) that is just 2.95mm thick and is crafted, assembled, and decorated by hand. The “Reverso” inscription on its dial replicates the logo on the original model.

Additionally the new Reverso features a stunning new leather strap made by the masters of polo-boot making, Casa Fagliano, which has been producing fine leather goods from their workshop in Argentina since 1892. Whether you are riding the Dixon Oval at Devon, taking a forehand swing in Kennett Square, or are simply a lover of fine watchmaking, this timepiece is a champion. Available by appointment at Govberg Jewelers, 1521 Walnut St., 215-546-6505; jaeger-lecoultre.com PS

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I learned this on a recent visit to Bask by Exhale at Revel (500 Boardwalk, 609-225-9855; revelresorts.com), which is the only spa in AC to offer traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture, the 5,000-year-old practice that uses tiny pins inserted at different points on the body to help with any number of ailments, and cupping, which suctions the skin to bring blood to the surface. “Acupuncture is very popular as it benefits all diseases, as well as emotional and spiritual imbalances such as anxiety, depression, and even weight loss,” says Kim Kiernan, public relations director for Exhale. “Therapies like cupping increase circulation to heal.”

Exhale also offers Reiki, a healing therapy that originated in ancient Japan. I opted for Reiki for its high relaxation factor—essentially lying on a heated table while wrapped in blankets for an hour—and the promise of restoring your equilibrium by measuring the seven chakras, or energy centers, through touch. The Reiki therapist placed her hands at different points on the body—crown of the head, forehead, throat, chest, lower and upper abdomen, and the base of the spine—and asked questions about my stress level and personality type. I left feeling a little tired but very relaxed.

Qua Baths and Spa at Caesars Atlantic City (2100 Pacific Ave., 609-348-4411; caesarsac.com) incorporates elements of Reiki into their Chakra Balancing service. “After an initial assessment of the continued on page 106

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continued from page 104 chakras using a crystal pendulum, one of the Ayurvedic oils is selected based on any energy blockages that a person might have.

Then a massage is performed using the oil and accompanied by guided meditation audio that will help the client correct the body’s energy flow,” says Courtney Pimentel, spa manager at Qua Baths and Spa. “When the three body characteristics, or Doshas, get out of balance, it can have a negative effect on a person’s physical and emotional well-being.” Pimentel says, noting that the client base for ancient treatments continues to expand. “[Guests] are looking to get something more out of the experience than a basic massage, and these treatments are important because they address physical issues and bring balance to a person’s energy.”

The Water Club’s Immersion Spa (1 Renaissance Way, 609-317-1000; theborgata. com.hotel/the-water-club) has offered traditional Indian healing methods, known as Ayurvedic, since opening in 2008. At first it was a way for the spa to set itself apart from the adjacent Spa Toccare at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, but over the years Immersion’s quartet of signa- —JENNIFER AARONS ture treatments has become a highlight of their many specialties. “These services are popular with a more seasoned spagoer—established and more worldly,” says Jennifer Aarons, director of spa operations at Borgata.

One of Immersion’s most popular Ayurvedic services is the Table Thai massage. Aarons likens it to “assisted yoga”: Clients are stretched by a certified therapist during 50- and 80-minute sessions.

“Table Thai makes you feel like you’ve been put back together again,” she says, adding that people who visit the chiropractor regularly are most familiar with this particular massage.

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t’s no secret that makeup can help to play up your best facial features. But Philadelphia aestheticians insist that eyebrows are another, more subtle secret weapon in enhancing your visage. Just like cosmetics, the key is finding what looks best for you.

“Properly shaped brows bring balance and proportion to the whole face,” says Victoria Roggio, a veteran makeup artist who works her magic at Rescue Spa’s new Walnut Street location (Medical Arts Building, 1601 Walnut St., 215-772-2766; rescuespa.net). “In general,” she says, “larger features look better with slightly fuller eyebrows, whereas smaller features are balanced by thinner eyebrows.” Roggio, who recommends tweezing brows to ensure the exact shape desired, notes that most Philadelphia women prefer natural-looking brows.

“Adding a slight arch opens up the eyes,” says Adolf Biecker Spa/ Salon’s Kin Sy, who likens a good brow shaping to a face-lift (1605 Sansom St., 215-735-6404; adolfbiecker.com).

But when considering which shape is best for you, trending styles are not necessarily the way to go. “Don’t pay too close attention to trends like bushy versus fine lines,” says the recently opened Bellevue Salon and Spa’s Harriet Goldman, who has worked with stars like Jennifer Lopez and Jill Scott (The Hyatt at The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St., 267-514-8000; bellevuesalonandspa.com). “A clean arch and a well-groomed brow is always in style.” She suggests getting them waxed regularly then following the established line when tweezing at home. “It’s all about that line, and when it’s gone, get it reestablished by an expert.”

Regardless of which method you favor, Sy stresses the value of beginning with a thorough, professional shaping. “Our brows are our best feature, so no matter if you tweeze, wax, or even thread, the important thing is to find the right shape.” PS

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Tis Father’s Day, Prostate Health International, a division of Te Foundation for Breast and Prostate Health, will host the 12th Annual Gary Papa Run to beneft prostate cancer education and awareness.

Tis 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Fun Walk will begin at 8:30AM at Eakins Oval afer the opening ceremonies.

Advanced registration is $30.

On June 19, 2014, the Friends of Rittenhouse Square will transform Te Square into a sparkling ballroom for the lavish Ball on Te Square presented by Te Wolk Law Firm. Philadelphia’s mostanticipated soiree features Stephen STARR Events, Evantine Design and Eddie Bruce Band. Funds raised will complete the one million dollar preservation campaign begun last year.

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AS ONE OF WASHINGTON’S MEDIA HEAVYWEIGHTS, ANDREA MITCHELL IS UNPARALLELED IN HER REPORTING ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. BUT BEFORE CAPITOL HILL CAME CALLING, THE NBC HOST BEGAN HER ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER IN PHILADELPHIA, THE CITY SHE STILL CONSIDERS HOME.

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ndrea Mitchell’s life is a moveable feast. One week in early March starts with a meeting in Philadelphia for the University of Pennsylvania board of trustees, of which she is a longtime member; a couple of days later, she’s reporting from Kiev, Ukraine, on the country’s confrontation with Russia. Then it’s on to Paris, traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry. And the day after that, she’s back home in Washington, DC—just in time for the dress rehearsal of the annual exclusive journalists’ Gridiron Club dinner, where top media and political figures provide the entertainment. Mitchell and her longtime friend Judy Woodruff perform in the opening song-and-dance number.

That was not an atypical week for Mitchell. Millions of viewers know her thanks to her 20-year post as NBC’s distinguished chief foreign affairs correspondent. On the beat, she has traveled the globe covering five successive Secretaries of State, including distinguished fellow women-inWashington Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, and most recently Hillary Rodham Clinton. But before that, she worked as a correspondent at the White House during two presidencies, reported from Congress, and covered at least five presidential campaigns. Her reach, you might say, runs through every facet of the District.

Mitchell is a media icon. She is respected and prolific—a relentless interviewer who has sat down with US presidents, foreign leaders, and prominent politicians. She is the 24-hour news cycle; she appears frequently on NBC Nightly News and hosts her own midday MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell Reports. But yet she still finds time to support breast cancer awareness and other causes and attend globally focused events such as the British Embassy’s recent Beatles commemorative bash. With her husband, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan, she hobnobs with the ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott and his wife, Susie. She’s known the world over. And to think that Mitchell’s career started in Philadelphia....

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orn in New York, Mitchell attended Penn at 16 (yes, 16), and Philadelphia remained her home until her early 30s. “I’m really less of a New Yorker than a Philadelphian.

I grew up in Philadelphia as an adult,” she says during our recent interview in NBC’s Washington studio. From her time as the City Hall reporter for the NBC affiliate KYW Radio (and later KYW Television), Mitchell’s gritty reporting on Mayor Frank Rizzo’s weekly press briefings became the stuff of legend in Philadelphia. “Covering Rizzo was critical to the reporter I became,” she recalls. “He was very tough and pretty intimidating. I was a kid, only 20 years old when I started, and going up against Rizzo taught me to stand up to politicians, even when they were bullying the media. It taught me not to be afraid to challenge people in authority.”

In 1976, she moved to Washington, DC, but her ties to Philadelphia remained strong. “It’s a place I visit happily, and I’m proud to be part of the University of Pennsylvania’s life there,” she says. “There’s something very special about the city’s neighborhoods, the institutions, the cultural life, and that wonderful mix that is an ethnic working-class city that also has deep historical roots.”

Once set up in Washington, her first overseas assignment took her to the South American country of Guyana to cover the Jonestown Massacre, where cult leader Jim Jones had brainwashed hundreds of Americans into committing ritual Andrea Mitchell still considers Philly home.

suicide, resulting in the deaths of Jones and 917 others, including more than 300 children. “The worst thing I ever covered,” she recalls of the ordeal 36 years later. “I had been hired in summer; this was Thanksgiving, and I didn’t know what I was doing. I got through it, but it was traumatic.”

Despite the trauma of her first reportage in the field, whatever she was doing was right, as a succession of plum assignments at NBC followed. She was there for what she calls “the great drama of the Reagan presidency” and the quite different drama of the Bill Clinton years. But in between, Capitol Hill was “the best beat of all because it was politics and tumult, and the great access you had,” she says. “Before 9/11, you could wander anywhere and talk to anyone and really report stories.”

By the 1990s, she had shifted her focus to foreign reporting, an area of highly complex issues, which she quickly mastered. “I didn’t realize that foreign policy was going to become such a passion as it has for me,” she says.

Perhaps the most familiar images of Andrea Mitchell are of her reporting from a foreign capital after a long overnight flight, making sense of some complicated international crisis, looking camera-ready in a “great for travel” Akris or Armani pantsuit. (Other favorites are Oscar de la Renta and Jason Wu.) To combat the stress of frequent travel, she lifts weights, tries to work out with a trainer four days a week, and plays tennis on weekends.

And vacations are spent away from cities—Mitchell favors trips to Wyoming and hiking in the Tetons.

Her on-location details include Iraq, Afghanistan, and the conflict in Haiti, and she has emerged from them all without a proverbial scratch. But at times, the pressroom has been a more hazardous place when her pointed questions meet unwitting audiences. To wit, in Khartoum, Sudan, a few years ago, she was manhandled by security after she had suggested to President Omar al-Bashir that he had secret ties to the insurgent militia. She had to have physiotherapy on her shoulder.

Often, though, her famous take-no-prisoners questions—delivered in a voice that rarely rises above the conversational—deliver results. For example, in 1992, a week after Bill Clinton was elected, she boldly asked whether he intended to live up to his campaign promise to let gays serve openly in the military. “I followed up at his first presidential news conference in the White House,” she recalls. “Clinton was not happy about being put on the spot, and it made me unpopular with his White House team, but it kept an important issue alive.”

But while Bill Clinton got the rough edge of the Mitchell treatment, she has nothing but praise for Hillary, who Mitchell grew to know while the former first lady served as Secretary of State in President Barack Obama’s first administration. “Hillary Clinton is received in foreign capitals as though she is the head of state. She’s wonderfully colorful, smart, inventive, creative—she’s so fascinating to cover,” Mitchell says.

As for her own marriage, Mitchell’s 1997 union with Alan Greenspan was a true Washington romance, with

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Mitchell interviews Fidel Castro.

In her first job, she interviewed former mayor Frank Rizzo.

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Mitchell and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Balkans.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg performing the ceremony. Mitchell says that the marriage of a newsperson to a senior government official inevitably raised potential ethical issues, but her reputation and professional work environment made an ostensibly complicated transition easier to navigate. “We had to deal with it,” she explains. “NBC went out of its way, and we all worked very hard to make sure that I never got involved in any coverage that would cause problems. I studiously kept away from anything involving him: If I knew that he was testifying in Congress, I would make sure I didn’t go anywhere near it. [NBC] just took that part of what I would have otherwise covered and assigned it to someone else. We kept a fire wall.”

Indeed she’s come a long way from the 20-yearold recent graduate who first squared off with Mayor Rizzo in Philadelphia. At the time, Mitchell was the only woman covering City Hall, but in the interim, more women than ever have

HE WAS TOUGH AND PRETTY INTIMIDATING.”

entered the field thanks to Mitchell’s model influence. She admits she is approached frequently by aspiring young female (and male) journalists seeking advice. “I tell them not to make narrow career choices too early, and to think about history and economics and social policy and prepare themselves, and then decide what to do,” she says.

It may seem strangely cautious counsel coming from a woman who threw herself in at the deep end when she was barely out of her teens. But news-gathering has changed in the digital age, and Mitchell emphasizes flexibility. “NBC is now no longer a television company—we are a digital company,” she points out. “I started in Philly with film and the beginnings of video; there were no cell phones. We used walkie-talkies to cover Reagan on the road. Now my day might begin with writing something for the Web, or on camera, or texting—and we are now 24-7. There can be a tendency for some people to be too fast, not thoughtful enough. What’s

remained the same, though, is the pursuit of news, of context, so that people can understand the world in which we live.”

On September 7, 2011, Mitchell concluded her Andrea Mitchell Reports broadcast with the announcement that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Because it was caught early, she said in the announcement, the prognosis was “terrific.”

But for such a public figure, the ramifications were potentially significant. “I had surgery, and I was under treatment; when I came back to work, I felt I had to explain why I had been away for about 10 days,” she admits. “I’d always been active, but when you’re involved, it becomes different.”

Looking back on the event—and her continued work to raise cancer awareness—is, if anything, philosophical. “We all face challenges in life and you can’t succumb to self pity and feeling sorry for yourself, especially as we cover events around the world and see so much suffering,” she says. “It puts anything we go through in context.” PS

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They are the news makers, the go-getters, and the style setters, working in front of the cameras and behind the scenes to make Philadelphia a better place to live and work. In their own words, nine of the city’s most-influential women talk about their challenges, triumphs, and future plans.

by Juliet Izon photography by Jared Castaldi

Ewers may work behind the scenes at the Kimmel Center but she’s no stranger to the stage: She’s also an accomplished opera stage director.

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Anne Ewers is president and CEO of the Kimmel Center, Academy of Music, and the Merriam Theater.

Whether with Broadway or jazz, she’s working to hit the right notes.

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MY MENTOR: I’ve always had one, if not two, sometimes three, mentors at a time, for different purposes. I feel very strongly about the value and importance of having mentors and actually being a mentor. I would say the most influential was Lotfi Mansouri. He was the general director of the San Francisco Opera and was my mentor for close to 30 years.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: From the day I started, in July 2007, to April 2008, we were able to retire a $30 million construction debt, build an endowment from $40 million to $72 million, and garner a $10 million gift to start our festival. And we closed the season in the black with a $1.6 million surplus. So we’ve been busy. I’ve had plenty of other successes at the Kimmel Center, but I would say that is the greatest. It made such a difference in the way the city perceived the Kimmel Center after that. It was like a cloud was lifted from management and from the board. ABOUT THE ARTS: I believe that we are feeding people’s souls. You can have all the money in the world, but if you don’t have something that inspires you, that lifts you up, that takes you to a new realm, that helps you connect to your inner self in a way.... I just don’t think without the arts that is possible. The vision for the Kimmel Center is transforming lives daily through the arts. We’ve thought about that for a long time. Whose life are we transforming?

It’s everyone. It’s the person on stage, the staff member who’s working here, it’s the little kid who comes into the plaza and looks up and sees that fabulous glass art. WORDS TO LIVE BY: To me, the word “no” just means a longer time getting to “yes.”

Roxborough High School is one of the area schools that benefit from Nutter’s stewardship of Philadelphia Academies.

LISA NUTTER

She may be best known as Philadelphia’s First Lady, but Lisa Nutter has made her biggest mark in the realm of education. Her organization, Philadelphia Academies, is a youth development nonprofit that prepares high schoolers for careers and college.

DEFINITION OF POWER: It’s being able to get things done through passion and influence versus compliance and force. ROLE MODEL: My first role model was my mother, who really

showed me the power of love and emotional strength. She died several years ago, so I often tap into the lessons that she taught me. But, I have a lot of other mentors, too, and they showed me different things. One of them is Joan Myers Brown, who is the founder of Philadanco; she’s an interesting woman. I’ve known her since I was in high school, and she has showed me that if you have a vision, you can make it a reality because that’s what she did with her dance company. Finally—and this point is dear to my heart—I would say every young person who is in my life teaches me that anything is possible when adults do what they’re supposed to do. So I count every one of those young people as a role model and mentor as well. MORNING ROUTINE: When I’m out of my routine, it seems like life doesn’t happen the way it should the rest of the day. I always start with a prayer and meditation. It’s something like asking God to help me be the best person that I can be today, asking for help in fighting for what’s right and what’s just. I ask for help staying focused so that any nonsense doesn’t distract me. The second thing I do is work out. Cycling’s my thing. ADVICE FOR OTHER WOMEN: Have a diverse network and loyal posse of friends. And when I say diverse, I mean diverse in every way—diverse in thought, diverse in age, race, gender, sexual identity, culture, socioeconomic class. To me, diversity is what helps you understand the world. And make sure that this network—this posse—tells you the truth, but also has your back. It should be a group that celebrates your success and shares your vision for yourself. WORDS TO LIVE BY: It is actually a tiny proverb that sits on my wall— “Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”

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Turney and Safran’s latest restaurant, Little Nonna’s, joins the couple’s collection of businesses in Midtown Village, the neighborhood they helped recreate with the opening of Lolita more than a decade ago.

MARCIE TURNEY AND VALERIE SAFRAN

Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran are responsible for some of Philly’s most eclectic restaurants and shops, including Little Nonna’s and Open House. Safran handles front-of-house, and Turney masterminds their menus.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: MARCIE: We kind of get credit for revi-

talizing this area of Philadelphia, so I’m proud of how we went about it.

We didn’t have money, and we didn’t come from money. We opened a small store on zero-percent credit cards. Six months later, they were paid off, and we just started saving money. And now, we own everything. It took 10 years, but now there are no loans out and we’re getting offers to build everywhere. But we’ve done something awesome in Philadelphia, and you can’t beat that. LIFE UNDER THE PHILADELPHIA MICROSCOPE: VALERIE: I don’t necessarily feel it. We wake up every day, we work hard, and we like what we do. Philadelphia has been good to us.

Everyone has been very supportive; people look up to us. For us, at the end of the day, what you put in, you get back, and Philadelphia works

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that way, too. We’re lucky to be in a city that has responded to us, and we are where we are because of two things: our employees and the people of Philadelphia who come to our businesses and support us. ROLE MODEL: MARCIE: We love Martha Stewart. She is a strong woman in business. I never really worked under big name chefs, so we’ve both just figured it out. I’ve worked for smaller restaurants where I had to be the chef and run the front of the house. It made me a better businesswoman. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: VALERIE: I always say the first thing is to get a good night’s rest. If I’m unsure or frustrated, I just calm down and get a good night’s sleep because in the morning the way you think about things is different. When I wake in the morning, I think, “How do I deal with this objectively?” I know I’ll work hard, and I’ll figure it out.

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SHARON PINKENSON

Making a movie in Philly? Sharon Pinkenson, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office for 22 years and a three-decade industry vet, gives the green light.

WORDS TO LIVE BY: The one song that I

always come back to is “Beautiful” by Carole King—“You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face.” I’ve always been a huge optimist, and I really believe that you’ve got to put on a happy face. I always used to say if you want to be a thief, you have to go out and steal something every day. Likewise if you want to be a happy person, you have to wake up in the morning with a smile on your face and just go for it. It’s infectious. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: Everybody has obstacles, so I try really hard not to jump to conclusions and to take my time to assess how important that problem really is before I make any decisions. Whenever possible, I like to sleep on decisions, to think before I act. There’s nothing worse than doing something that you can’t go back on because you may have misjudged.

ABOUT FILM-MAKING: I work in the most exciting, best industry in the world. I think that it is a hallmark of our culture and the most important export of the United States. It’s also a team business. You work with very smart people on complicated projects for very finite periods of time, like running multi million dollar businesses over the span of a year. Then, in the end, when it’s done, they have a credit roll and your name is attached to it. There’s nothing more satisfying in the world than to attach yourself to a project that, when it’s completed, is going to be there for eternity.

PHILADELPHIA THEN AND NOW: It’s changed dramatically. It’s gone from a sleepy, old metropolis that was overlooked to actively the fourth largest city in the country. Now it’s much more dynamic, more international; the cultural life is spectacular. This is where I really want to be, and I think the city is getting better and better all the time.

Pinkenson, seen here in City Hall, says the iconic structure is a favorite location among filmmakers and can be seen in films like Law Abiding Citizen.

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RENEE HUGHES

Renee Hughes is the CEO of the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Hughes distills the organization’s purpose into one sentence: “We help, and we always promise to help.”

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: My son, Alex.

Hughes’s local American Red Cross chapter serves some 4 million people in five counties.

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He will graduate from West Point on May 28, and when he graduates, he will be a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He’s the greatest thing I’ve ever done in my life. And on a professional level, I’m still achieving. There’s much more to do, and I’m not done yet. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: If it’s in your way, go over it, go under it, go around it; don’t stop. If you really believe that you’re on the right path, don’t stop. You will always have to believe in yourself if no one else does. You know the Diana Ross song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”? That’s what you should have running through your head all the time: You can get it done. LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA: Philadelphia is good to you if you are good to it, and Philadelphia has been phenomenal to me.

This city has embraced me as if I were one of its own. I adore Philadelphia—nothing in the world is more beautiful than riding down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. I am in no way naïve about our challenges with the school district and our tax infrastructure. We also have neighborhoods that need to be revitalized, but we’ve got to hold our heads up and be proud of who we are. ABOUT NONPROFIT WORK: It is a profession that requires you to be sharp—I mean intellectually sharp—at all times. You really don’t know what’s going to confront you on any given day. Disasters don’t plan. It requires you to be incredibly flexible. I start my day very early in the morning, I’m in meetings all day long, and when I leave, I have events to go to. I have to keep the community thinking about the Red Cross; it exists solely by the donations of our neighbors, so it has to be on people’s minds. WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Impossible is nothing.” It’s a quote that I take from Muhammad Ali. What I tell students when I go out in the community is that if you set your goals high, there are many paths that will take you there.

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Seacrest Studio, a broadcast media center, is one of many programs Bell has established.

MADELINE BELL

Madeline Bell is the president and COO of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an organization that encompasses more than 50 locations and 13,000 employees and provides essential care to more than 1.2 million children in need each year.

ROLE MODELS: I’m a big fan of Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright, women who have been influencers on the world stage and who have been in traditionally male roles. GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Starting off as a staff nurse and now being in a position where I’m running an organization—a large hospital ranked number one in the country—has been a big accomplishment. Personally, it’s also my children. Many of them are out working now and the youngest is in college, but to be able to have raised a family and been in an executive role to me is a big accomplishment. PHILADELPHIA THEN AND NOW: I love Philadelphia because it’s rich in history, and I’m a big American history buff. I also think that in the past, Philadelphia was very culturally diverse, but more segregated culturally. Now I see much more integration here, so I think that’s a really good thing. There’s a lot of activity among the neighborhood associations, which is really exciting: People

taking pride in their neighborhood and keeping it safe and paying attention to how it’s developing. ABOUT HEALTHCARE: We’ve just had the advent of the Affordable Care Act, which is changing the landscape of healthcare. It’s now being regulated in a different way, and I think there’s a lot of uncertainty in our industry. With that said, healthcare is a very important part of the economic viability of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Hospitals and healthcare providers are important employers and really important to the economy, so it’s imperative for people like me to make sure we understand what’s happening with healthcare reform and to ensure that our institutions continue to thrive. CHARITY OF CHOICE: CHOP. People don’t understand that we depend on philanthropic support for some of the unique things we do. I know what we can do with the money that can make a difference in the lives of children and their families.

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Rosanio’s The Star Group has spearheaded marketing campaigns for The National Museum of American Jewish History and Virtua Hospital.

LINDA ROSANIO

Lifelong Philadelphian Linda Rosanio is the CEO and cofounder of The Star Group, a marketing communications holding company with clients from the entertainment world to the nonprofit sector.

WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Tenacity” is probably my favorite word because it

takes tenacity to do pretty much everything and not give up. “Culture” is also really important to me: My dream of opening my own company was about having a culture that was collaborative and team oriented. And maybe “transparency.” Trying to be as open and honest with people has served me well; people know that I speak from the heart and that seems to resonate. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: I surround myself with people who are believers in getting over the hurdles. We have an incredible talent base at Star that’s taken us 29 years of investment to build. I would say that’s what gets us by, what sets us apart. We’re not just doing the same old, same old; we look beyond that for other ways to help drive our clients’ business. ABOUT MARKETING: It is a very colorful industry with the most colorful people in

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terms of personality and chutzpah. They’re just fun to be around and some of them are crazy, outright crazy. We embrace that in people. I think we have a culture that allows people to have the ability to be their own selves.

They’re the people who can drive a business with their ideas, their tenacity, their personalities, and the entrepreneurialism that they bring to a client’s business. LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA: If you grew up here, it’s hard to not love Philadelphia; there are so many wonderful things about it. I am really excited to see the things that have evolved, like the Avenue of the Arts. GETTING STARTED: I knew it so early on; I was lucky. At 16, when I got my first toe into the business, I was totally fascinated by making images, building brands, telling stories, and doing things that were emotionally connected and pulling at people’s heartstrings.

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JOAN DOKTOR

As president of realtors for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/Fox & Roach, Realtors, Joan Doktor oversees 64 real estate sales offices and more than 4,000 employees in 13 counties.

DEFINITION OF POWER: It doesn’t come from

making people do what you want them to do but rather the ability to convince others to understand and support your vision. The key is to lead in a way that people want to follow you in order to achieve their own goals as well. ADVICE FOR YOUNGER WOMEN: Don’t surround yourself with negative energy and don’t allow it to control you. Most of the time things will work out if you work really hard, stay focused, and follow your dream. Mentoring is also really important for women. Mentoring other women and helping them to be successful is very fulfilling. Lastly, don’t wait till the end of your career to give back.

So many people just work on their careers, and it’s only at the end that they start giving back. ABOUT REAL ESTATE: Being able to watch people achieve their dreams is just an amazing thing. We do something special—many achieve their dreams in home ownership and so many find financial security in owning their home. It’s a wonderful thing to be a part of. It’s great to see the joy, especially when people buy their first home and they watch their kids grow. I always consider it a happy time for people; it’s the next step in their lives. CHARITY OF CHOICE: Fox & Roach Charities, which I believe in and am a part of. The mission is to help families in distress. Every dollar earned goes back to the community we serve.

The agents in each office choose charities in their surrounding area. WORDS TO LIVE BY: I have three sayings that I like. First, life is not a rehearsal and you have to truly live life every day. Second, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. The last is never argue with a fool because you will become one and you won’t be able to tell the difference PS

Doktor’s reach in the world of local real estate extends from the affluent suburbs to the Symphony House, seen here, along the Avenue of the Arts.

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Mayor Don Guardian is committed to improving the future of Atlantic City.

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The recent election of Mayor Don Guardian marks a new era in leadership for Atlantic City. His ambitious plans to stabilize taxes, jump-start residential development, and revitalize neighborhoods may take years to complete, but for this longtime Shore resident, he’s taking it one day at a time.

BY NICK DIULIO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY STOCKBRIDGE

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ust before nine o’clock on the morning of his 59th day in office, Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian strides into the crowded lobby of Harrah’s ballroom, takes off his overcoat and brown homburg, and immediately begins shaking hands. Guardian is attending a breakfast forum at an annual two-day legislative conference spearheaded by the Southern New Jersey Development Council, and he is the morning’s most highly anticipated speaker. As he walks through the crowd, the swirling eye of a benevolent hurricane begins to take shape.

At every turn Guardian’s attention is in high demand. Everyone from Comcast executives to local politicians vies for even the slightest sliver of his time, and Guardian, a man of frequent smiles and self-deprecating asides, seems more than happy to oblige. Even if no one says it outright, there is a savior’s air to the man impeccably

dressed in a navy blue suit, brown wing tips, and one of his myriad signature bow ties.

Despite the magnificent unlikelihood of his newfound tenure as the city’s first Republican mayor in 23 years—and an openly gay one at that—it’s understandable that the 60-year-old Guardian would generate so much excitement from his admirers. Not only are his affability and zeal stark contrasts to the stern and oftendour character of his predecessor, Lorenzo Langford, but Guardian’s positively giddy enthusiasm for the future comes at a time when the city needs it more than ever. Because Atlantic City is changing.

Throughout the past five years, gaming revenues have plummeted as the city’s casinos now face intense competition from new gambling hubs in Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware. In 2013, casino winnings totaled just $2.86 billion, the lowest in 22 years.

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“That’s the philosophy I have: Just get it done.”

— MAYOR

DON GUARDIAN

What’s more, the city’s tax base has shrunk by a third since 2008, and when Guardian stepped into office this past January, he faced a projected $40 million budget deficit along with a 25 percent poverty rate. Disgruntled residents were tasked with shouldering the burden of a 22 percent tax increase in 2013.

And so it is with this weight that Guardian makes his way through the adoring crowd and takes a seat on a raised platform at the front of the ballroom, where he is flanked by several prominent South Jersey politicians and business leaders. After breakfast is served, the room quiets. It’s time for the mayor to speak.

“It’s kind of funny. In February of last year, I realized that after 59 years of my life, I finally developed the courage to come out of the closet and admit—I was a Republican.” The opening line receives a resounding swell of laughter as Guardian walks through the room, microphone in hand.

“Look, there’s no doubt that I understand we’re in troubled waters. These aren’t easy times. They are tough. But if the city didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have hired me as mayor.”

In many ways Guardian’s startling victory on November 5 had been two decades in the making. After just five years at the Special Improvement District chatter had already begun surfacing that he should run for mayor. But Guardian always demurred. He was more than content in his current position.

Besides, how could he ever win?

aised in the North Jersey suburbs, Guardian more or less shunned political ambition, while working as executive assistant to the president of the Claridge Casino Hotel before joining the Special Improvement District. When the District came under the umbrella of the state-run Casino Reinvestment Development Authority in 2011, Guardian was responsible for sprucing up the tourism sector, which comprises about half of the entire city, while improving the quality of life for residents in the process. As the prospects of the economic outlook continued to dim, Guardian’s frustrations grew. Finally, his increasingly vocal angst reached its zenith one afternoon while attending a local Republican committee meeting in early 2013, and once again his colleagues pressured him to run. “They really hounded me,” he recalls. “But I told them I would only run if I thought I could win.”

If he was going to succeed against a 12-year incumbent who had a 9-to-1 voter registration advantage, Guardian needed a strategy. So he hypothesized that if he could take 500 votes from Langford while also garnering 2,500 votes of his own, the seat would be his. To find those votes Guardian turned to the city’s various ethnic communities of Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, Pakistani, and Indian decent, going door-to-door throughout the summer and early fall to spread his message of stabilizing the city’s tax rate, eliminating poverty, and cleaning up neglected neighborhoods.

“I think it was this commitment to the multicultural aspects of Atlantic City that brought him success,” says Liza Cartmell, president of the nonprofit Atlantic City Alliance. “He focused on these neighborhoods and put together an interesting coalition of people who felt like their voices weren’t being heard.”

As the summer marched on, Guardian’s campaign began generating a buzz. Meanwhile, Langford behaved like victory was in the bag, failing to raise substantial funds and never really taking Guardian’s campaign seriously—until it was too late. By then Guardian was well on his way to becoming Atlantic City’s 49th mayor by a margin of 433 votes.

What’s most remarkable about his narrative is its emphasis on practicality. He doesn’t waste time demonizing the previous administration, casinos, or the new gaming competition in nearby states. Guardian is less concerned with the causality of blame than he is with the day-to-day execution of running one of New Jersey’s most important and beleaguered cities.

“I’m an organization guy,” he says. “I’m the last one to sit around for two years drawing up a master plan and then spending another year figuring out how to execute it without any real hope of ever getting it done. That’s lost on me.”

In a telling story, Guardian recalls how, on his third day as mayor, he rode shotgun with the city’s director of public works to visit various firehouses and gauge their preparedness for an impending snowstorm. During their trip, Guardian discovered one of the firehouses had no heat, and at a municipal meeting the following day, he asked why this was the case. “I heard all about FEMA and insurance and bidding,” he says.

“So I said, ‘Here’s what’s going to happen. If we don’t have heat in that firehouse, you find me the person who is responsible, take his desk, and move it into that firehouse. And once they get heat, he can move back into his office.’ Then, miraculously, there was heat within a few days. That’s the philosophy I have:

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Just get it done.” Bob Berg, part of Guardian’s security detail agrees: “He’s got a heck of a change to make, but he’s doing a heck of a job. I call him the Peyton Manning of politics—he makes everybody around him better.”

Guardian helped revitalize a maligned park on Texas Avenue in 2012, a onetime safe haven for the city’s children that had devolved into a hotbed of drug and gang activity littered with liquor bottles and ubiquitous graffiti. According to Jazmyn Rivera, a lifelong Atlantic City resident and Guardian’s assistant for more than a decade, the future mayor not only cleaned up the park but also insisted upon secure gated fencing around its borders. “He had a vision,” Rivera says. “And then he put it into action.”

Walking into Harrah’s, Guardian breathlessly transitions from the heuristic nuts and bolts of municipal efficiency to the juggernaut challenges of his first term in office. For instance, as gaming revenues have nose-dived in recent years, many of the city’s casinos have successfully appealed their property tax assessments. The most crushing blow came in October, when the Borgata—the city’s largest taxpayer and top-grossing casino—was awarded a nearly $49 million property-tax refund.

As a result the city has spent the past three years borrowing money to refund more than $250 million in casino property taxes. If the trend continues, Atlantic City tax revenue could plummet by more than $100 million per year.

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his is where one begins to see the fusion of Guardian’s day-to-day practicality with the larger issues facing his city. If change is going to be real and applicable, it’s going to involve the entirety of Atlantic City, not just its most historically celebrated institutions. “For 30 years we had a monopoly on gaming,” he says. “You didn’t care if the streets were clean or the city was safe; you buzzed into the casino and that was it. But all of that is changing.”

So, too, has the relationship between the city and its casinos. “The last administration didn’t talk to us about our tax appeals,” says Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa President Tom Ballance.

“It’s always been a wait-and-see game rather than a proactive one. But Mayor Guardian has already reached out to the industry in ways that we didn’t see in the past. He’s made it very clear he’ll negotiate and find some resolution and a more stable method of doing business.”

Ballance isn’t the only one who’s hopeful about the renewed spirit Guardian brings to the tax kerfuffle: “Everyone in the casino industry knows Don as someone who is not only approachable but fair-minded, intelligent, and trusted,” says CRDA Executive Director John Palmieri, who worked closely with Guardian for years. “Casinos understand that they need to go beyond gaming to give Atlantic City greater destination appeal and create a more robust environment.

Don, having worked with them in the past, had a leg up coming into office.”

Guardian’s ambitious goals for his first year in office include asking the state for transitional aid and reducing the city’s budget.

He also plans to give away land to up to 400 individuals to build

homes and spearhead a 10-year mortgage forgiveness program.

All the while, he knows casinos will continue to be a chief economic engine for Atlantic City, but only if there is an increased focus on nongaming attractions such as live entertainment and dining. “We want to keep what we have and make it a success,” says Guardian, gesturing to Harrah’s virtually empty casino floor as he ascends an escalator to the ballroom lobby. “Five years ago there wouldn’t be an empty seat. If we don’t find ways to make our venues exciting again, we’ll be out of business.”

Although Guardian’s past made him the candidate and official he’s become, it’s now his present that is key to Atlantic City’s future. “I want to do everything now, but you have to do it one day at a time,” he says. “Atlantic City is going to be in good shape six years down the road. We say we want to look ahead to 2020, which is also another way of saying we have good vision, right?

But don’t tell me what you want to see in 2020. Tell me what we are doing this month, this week, this morning, to get there.” PS

“He focused on people who felt like their voices weren’t being heard.”

— LIZA

CARTMELL

FROM TOP: Mayor Don Guardian cuts the ribbon at a ballet event sponsored by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority and celebrates the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day to raise awareness for heart health issues.

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Haute Property NEWS, STARS, AND TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE

The living room at Karen and Hubert Jasinski’s Bella Condos penthouse showcases their style.

Second Time Around A SUBURBAN COUPLE’S BEACHSIDE HOME REFLECTS THEIR NEW, LAID-BACK LIFESTYLE AT THE JERSEY SHORE. BY KATHLEEN NICHOLSON-WEBBER

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t is rare someone winds up thankful that a deal for a potential dream home falls through. But for Karen Jasinski and her husband, Hubert, being narrowly outbid for a Millionaires’ Row home on the Inlet in Atlantic City turned out to be an unexpected boon. With their disappointment still fresh, a call from Karen’s business partner led to the purchase of a unit at Bella Condos in Atlantic City. She was always against living in an “elevator building” as she was accustomed to the wide-open spaces of her five-acre Montgomery County farm, where she drives to her mailbox daily. But with a little coaxing, Karen was convinced to give high-rise living a trial run.

She soon found that she really loved the many conveniences of a staffed 24-hour concierge building and became a quick convert to this more pampered lifestyle. Before long, a penthouse became available, and she and Hubert—owners of a medical manufacturing lab in Lansdale—traded their unit for the two-floor, three-bedroom standout, commissioning the condo’s main designer, Janet Espenshade of Espenshade Interiors in Bryn Mawr, to have the place move-in ready in 30 days. Espenshade’s contemporary “upscale seashore style” interiors had already earned rave reviews from many of the building’s other residents, and she was up for the challenge. continued on page 130

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“I think it is the most glamorous building in Atlantic City.”—JANET ESPENSHADE car and enjoy the dining, gaming, and entertainment that have become part of their weekend routine. “During the day, we take our bikes and go to Gardner’s Basin near Borgata in the afternoon. It is like a mini Key West with its bars and restaurants.”

But the couple treasures quieter time in their beachside home when they need to press pause on their busy lives. “The unit is an oasis—an elegant functional home away from home,” says Karen. For Hubert, the vibrancy and accessibility of the city is the most exciting aspect of their luxe retreat. “When I go to turn in at night and look at the city lights, I often wonder how I can sleep when the city is so alive.” Bella Condos, 526 Pacific Ave., Atlantic City, 609-344-6200; bellacondos.net PS

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continued from page 128 Espenshade, who also crafted the interiors for 1706 Rittenhouse, used glistening travertine floors throughout the Jasinskis’ home. The contemporary kitchen now boasts Italian cabinetry, glass hood and tile, and a built-in cappuccino machine. A stainless steel counter peninsula overlooks a dining area with rich wood and upholstered dining chairs.

Espenshade kept all the windows uncovered so

the focal point of the home would be the view. “I was able to make it so much more than what you see at the Shore,” she says, admitting that while the home is not your typical Shore house interior, its modern elegance sets it apart: “I think it is the most glamorous building in Atlantic City.”

In the penthouse’s living room she constructed a custom glass and marble fireplace, and in the master bedroom, Espenshade used a creamy yellow for the sumptuous linens. The guest bedroom is done in shades of slate gray and pink. Off the master bedroom there is a curved balcony with impressive views of the city. “I think most people who have second homes want cleaner and lighter,” says the designer. “They may have the big, traditional home in the suburbs and now they want something that is easier to care for but has plenty of room.”

The Jasinskis’ country home is just that—an Italian-style design with generous rooms that flow into one another and that are filled with art and collections. But for Karen, the Shore condo is her modern version of a European-style pied-à-terre, complete with a collection of vintage pin-up art curated by her husband.

Now Jasinski and her husband hop in the

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The kitchen features stainless steel countertops; the designer, Janet Espenshade, decorated the house with a contemporary “upscale seashore style”; the guest bedroom in creamy yellow.

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erhaps one of the largest developments to hit Philadelphia this year is the SLS International Hotel & Residences (Broad and Spruce Streets; sbe.com/slshotels/philadelphia)—a major collaboration between Dranoff Properties, one of the nation’s foremost developers, and the industry-leading hospitality, lifestyle, and real estate development company, sbe. The 47-story tower will be the tallest residentially focused building in Pennsylvania and will bring to the city 150 boutique hotel rooms and 125 luxury condos for rent.

“By placing condominiums and a hotel at the same address, the advantages are twofold,” says president and founder Carl Dranoff of the decision to build the multiuse property. “We can provide visitors and business travelers with the opportunity to stay in one of the nation’s premier luxury residential buildings while also offering condominium residents the amenities of a five-star hotel.” Among the perks that the SLS will offer: a fully landscaped terrace, an Olympic-size pool, state-of-the-art fitness and spa facilities, and around-theclock food service. Luxuries aside, Dranoff is quick to stress the economic benefit of the project as well. “Beyond the glamour and vitality that it will bring to South Broad, RIGHT: The Breakers’ the SLS International Hotel & kitchens and living (BELOW) Residences is a project that will spaces feature top-of-thecreate jobs for Philadelphia con- line amenities. struction, hospitality, and service contracts,” he says. “This is the type of project that is going to have a critical ripple effect on our local economy but also has the potential to create a tidal wave for other bold projects to come to fruition.”

The SLS is a bold project indeed— one whose potential is due in part to sbe’s tight grasp on the hospitality business worldwide. “From years of development, I have a simple rule: ‘Find and work with the best.’ And that’s exactly what we did for the SLS International,” Dranoff says of partnering with sbe, whose flagship brands include SLS Hotels, The Bazaar by José Andrés in Miami

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Beach, and Hyde Lounges. “[Sbe Founder, Chairman, and CEO] Sam Nazarian is a dynamic visionary, and sbe aligns perfectly with what Dranoff Properties has always aimed to deliver—exceptional service and luxury. His belief in the greatness of our city is equal to my own.”

TAKING SHAPE AT THE SHORE IS THE BREAKERS AT ATLANTIC CITY (4100 Atlantic Ave., 866-410-0285; breakersac.com), a gated community of oceanfront townhomes. Situated on a complete square block in the Lower Chelsea neighborhood, The Breakers offers Shore residents the utmost in luxury living right on the Atlantic Ocean. “The Breakers is like nothing else around here—there has never been a luxury, gated community on the ocean [in Atlantic City] before,” says Paula Hartman of Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors (9218 Ventnor Ave., Margate, 609-822-4200; hartmanhometeam.com). “Every detail has been so well planned for the luxury buyer.”

The first phase of construction includes 12 townhomes—each with four bedrooms, ABOVE: SLS International Hotel & four-and-a-half baths, a private Residences, a 47-story tower. elevator, rooftop deck, optional LEFT: Master bath at The Breakers. private pool, garage, and topof-the-line finishes throughout.

State-of-the-art technology gives residents direct access to video of the front gates and surrounding property, which can be controlled from inside the home or from a cell phone. “The Breakers will redefine the word ‘luxury,’ which is often used but never realized,” brags builder Joseph Zarrelli.

The structure of the property was designed with just as much consideration, especially taking into account the aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy.

Standing seam roofs, deeper and stronger foundations, and extraordinary amounts of steel for wind resistance topped the list of priorities when building.

Zarrelli also notes that the units are “being built two to three feet above the base flood elevation and are located on one of the highest points of Atlantic City.” At completion, The continued on page 134

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KOHN PEDERSON FOX (SLS)

NEW PROJECTS, BOTH LOCALLY AND AT THE SHORE, CONTINUE TO PROVE THE REGION’S GROWING PROMINENCE WITHIN THE REAL ESTATE SPHERE. BY ALEXANDRA LESHNER

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continued from page 132 Breakers will include side units, a community pool, and additional townhomes depending on demand.

ONE OF CENTER CITY’S HISTORIC PROPERTIES HAS RECENTLY GONE GREEN with a slew of renovations that complement and restore the building’s historic qualities. The Touraine (1520 Spruce St., 215-735-8618; thetouraine.com), a residential hotel designed by architect Frederick Weber in 1917, saw its lobby, hallways, and elevators extensively made over, with many individual units undergoing similar transformations. “The building itself has such an old world, architecturally interesting legacy, and it was time for the present design to match these characteristics,” says Liz Solms, co-owner of the property. “In renovating The Touraine, I wanted to highlight the amazing ‘bones’ that were already there while playing up the history of the building.”

To enhance the grand lobby—complete with original crown molding and fluted columns—LED lights were installed at the base of the columns and custom bookshelves were made to flank the gorgeous fireplace. A deep purple patterned rug sets the stage for a variety of posh seating options and simple, modern light fixtures add a sense of sophistication to the space. Sticking to her commitment to sustainability, most of the materials Solms used in the renovations were made by local artisans.

IN THE NORTHERN LIBERTIES NEIGHBORHOOD, the newly constructed Zabels Row combines the feeling of loft-style living into a trio of 3,000-square-foot private townhomes. Designed with the residents’ everyday routines in mind, the modern units are both spacious and practical, with luxury amenities to boot. “Our first goal in designing each one of our homes is to answer the question, ‘How will our homeowners live [here]?’” says Nino Cutrufello of Callahan Ward Companies (2610 Hirst Terr., Havertown, 484-4543281; callahanward.com). “It is always most important for us to design a home that makes sense for people’s everyday lives.”

Each of the three homes at Zabels Row includes three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a full basement with the option to custom finish, hand-scraped hardwood floors throughout, and a rooftop deck with panoramic views of the skyline. Also unique to these properties are their building footprints, which Cutrufello says are closer to a square than the long narrow shape typically associated with a Philadelphia townhome. “In addition to being able to achieve a two-car garage for each home, the square footprint allowed us to realize something closer to a loft effect on the inside of the home as opposed to a traditional townhome feel,” he says. “We then complemented this open plan with 10-foot ceilings on the main living level and plenty of windows.” continued on page 136 The open spaces at Zabels Row give the townhomes a loftlike feel.

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continued from page 134 HISTORY MEETS MODERNITY AT NEW LUXURY APARTMENT BUILDING ICON (1616 Walnut St.; crossprop.com).

Situated in the heart of Center City, the Art Deco address, originally built in 1929 and listed on both the National and Philadelphia Registers of Historic Places, is home to 206 luxury apartments and 160 parking spaces and features a concierge service, pet grooming station, and sky deck with panoramic views. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;first classâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from project inception: from the amenities to the finishes to the location,â&#x20AC;? says Kevin Michals, principal, Cross Properties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created social spaces like the rooftop lounge with its fireplace, herb garden, and sky library, as well as a wellness floor, on-site nutritionists and personal trainers, a bikeshare program, and more.â&#x20AC;? The venture also includes Federal Capital Partners and Alterra Property Group.

Expansive views can be found within any one of the 25-story buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studios and one-, two-, and three-bedroom residences.

Finishes like quartz countertops, engineered hardwood floors, and stainless steel appliances are complementary accents to the Art Deco style throughout each apartment, a design scheme dreamt up by Philadelphia interior design firm Floss Barber. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were inspired by the perfect examples of Art Deco that exist on the façade and the first floor lobby,â&#x20AC;? says Barber, CEO and principal designer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The combination of geometric forms and subtle colors in perfect balance and harmony is truly unique. We used this inspiration as the basis of the color palette in the building. Our team custom-designed an Axminster carpet for the public spaces, which is a direct takeoff of the lobby architecture. When hard surfaces were required, we utilized tile that echoed the design. It was important to respect and not overpower the Art Deco details that exist.â&#x20AC;?

The most-talked about and innovative feature of Icon is the debut of Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever Well Signature Residences. Designed by Delos, a wellness firm that typically works on hotel projects, every unit on the ninth floor will feature designs and technologies created for a healthier lifestyle. There are lighting strategies to regulate melatonin levels for improved sleep; advanced air purification and water filtration systems; vitamin-C shower infusion to neutralize chlorine; and antimicrobial coatings on bacteria-gathering surfaces. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our decision to partner with Delos, the architect of the new Well Building Standard, and provide Well Signature Residences for our most health-conscious residents aligns with Iconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall acknowledgment of a healthy lifestyle. Our residents are successful, savvy city dwellers who are always on the go. If we can offer everything they need to maintain a healthy, well-rounded lifestyle all under one roof, why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they want to live here?â&#x20AC;? says Michals. PS

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POWER BROKERS The Parc Rittenhouse, where Allan Domb sold the penthouse.

Dollars and Sense VETERAN BROKER ALLAN DOMB, NOW IN HIS THIRD TERM AS PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, DISCUSSES THE CURRENT MARKET AND A $100 MILLION CHALLENGE. BY MARNI PRICHARD MANKO

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fixture in Philly’s real estate scene for 35 years, realtor Allan Domb has been the maestro behind some of Philly’s biggest luxe condo sales, earning him the rightful moniker “Condo King.”

Now in his record-breaking third term as president of the Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors (GPAR), Domb has some big plans for the city—and his vision extends well beyond selling Rittenhouse Square’s toniest penthouses. Here he talks about how he believes GPAR can lead the charge in making some true fundamental changes to Philly’s economic—and, of course, real estate—landscape.

This is your third year heading up GPAR. What is it about the association’s mission that resonates with you?

I feel like GPAR is making really good suggestions and ideas and trying to get changes implemented in the city. We’re making progress, and we’re coming from this unique perspective because we’re not politically affiliated. My party is what’s best for the city of Philadelphia, period. It’s about what’s healthy for the city. And it’s somewhat refreshing to come from that approach, because we don’t really care about anything else. Philadelphia—the city and citizens—is our client.

What about on a personal level?

I felt a responsibility to give back because real estate has been really good to me and so has the city. I’m also concerned about the future. I’m very proud of Philadelphia, but I want to make sure that for the next 10 to 12 years, we’re on the right track. The future of the city is the most important element of all of our businesses.

How has Philly changed since your first term in 1990?

Back then, we were compared to Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the verge of financial bankruptcy. Today, we’re at another crossroads, but I like to say to people, “We’re not heading [toward becoming] Boston; we’re heading to Philadelphia.”

What’s your main initiative this year?

GPAR identified that real estate taxes were delinquent by about $500 million, and we also found out that over the last 25 to 30 years, the delinquencies over 16 different city taxes added up to $1.6 billion. That’s major “found money” for the city; 55 percent of those funds could go to The School District of Philadelphia. They need it.

“The future of the city is the most important element of all of our businesses.”

—ALLAN DOMB Tell us more about the GPAR $100 million challenge.

We’re sponsoring a competition in conjunction with the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, where we share the city’s budget with 10 students from every college in Philly and see if they can come up with ways to save $100 million. GPAR is paying for the study, and we’re going to present our findings to the City Council and the mayor. It’s for young people to provide ideas, be creative, and potentially save money for the city.

You’ve been in the real estate game for 35 years. Beyond the financial benefits, what drives you?

My favorite part of real estate is that for a short amount of time, you’re very intimate with buyers and sellers. You help them find a home, and then down the road, they tell you, “I love my home; I love living here.” The more people we can make homeowners, the more successful we are as a society.

For 98 percent of the population, the biggest financial decision they’ll ever make is buying a home. And for a short while, I get to help them with that.

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n the early 1900s, the maharajas of India—some 600 feudal kings who retained power under British colonial rule—became huge fans of the Rolls-Royce as the ultimate symbol of power and wealth. By the ’20s, hundreds of the English luxury vehicles roared across the Asian continent, decked out with elaborate designs and eye-catching accessories.

The latest model, the Rolls-Royce Wraith, boasts a sleeker brand of sophistication, but it has nonetheless become the perfect fit for the modern-day maharajas of international business and entertainment. For these VIPs, going unnoticed, or worse, underestimated is as good as being out of the game.

The Wraith—a cooler, more accessible two-door coupe version of the enigmatic Rolls-Royce Ghost—attracts a younger fan base, one that might actually be interested in driving the car, rather than simply lounging in its backseat while being chauffeured. It comes in a standard palette of bicolored selections, but for the customer who goes with the bespoke option, any color swatch or sample sent to Rolls-Royce will be matched precisely.

In another nod to the youth market, the Wraith has a lower-slung profile than the traditional Rolls-Royce, whose higher door frames and easy stepin features appealed to older customers. Hit a button in the upper front doorjamb on the driver and passenger sides and a full-size, leathersheathed umbrella pops out. It’s very Bond-goes-Bollywood.

Slipping inside this regal ride is a multisensory experience. The taut

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natural-grain leather seat cradles me in a position that feels almost like reclining. The dash and instrumentation panel layout are clean and simple, with mid-20th-century modern analog displays and a spectacular panoramic 10.25-inch center console color display screen. Firing up the twin-turbo 6.6 liter V-12, the 624 horsepower creates an ethereal rumble under the hood. The influence of the German sport sedan masters is clearly evident in the sporty driving dynamics of this madeto-order $280,000 chariot.

As I was sweeping down the Ben Franklin Parkway in the Wraith, I felt as if the elegant boulevard with its fluttering flags and well-tended green spaces was especially designed for this test drive. An eight-speed ZF automatic satellite aided transmission system, using GPS data from the car, surveys the road ahead and chooses the correct gear for the terrain.

And although the words “drag racing” and “Rolls-Royce” seem incongruous uttered in the same breath, I hit the accelerator for a moment to feel the raw power discharged from under that long aristocratic hood—or bonnet, as the Brits would say. Out and back along both Kelly and Lincoln Drives, the Wraith conquered the extreme curves with unfaltering precision.

Few vehicles on the luxury market can combine the trappings of international prestige and contemporary accoutrements as well as the Wraith. In truth, I felt like royalty. F.C. Kerbeck, 100 Route 73 North, Palmrya, NJ, 888733-0293; fckerbeck.com PS

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by Bernie Robbins and Thrive Gaming LLC, Blingo is an elegant evening of bingo and bling with celebrity guests and prizes.

Escape your everyday and plan a “Spring Getaway” to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City! Starting from $169, this package includes an overnight stay in a fnely appointed Classic Room, $100 dining credit to use at any of Borgata’s signature restaurants, two Comedy Club tickets, and complimentary access for two to the Pump Room at Spa Toccare.

Be a part of the spring tradition of steeplechasing at Radnor Hunt for the 84th running, Saturday, May 17th.

Six exciting races feature horses galloping over hurdles and timber fences for purses totaling $200,000. Enjoy a tailgate picnic with friends and family while helping to win the race for open space. All proceeds from the Radnor Hunt Races beneft the land and water preservation programs of the Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford. Enjoy race day with Presenting Sponsor, BNY Mellon, who is celebrating 30 years of continued support of the races.

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Valid for travel now through June 26, 2014, Sunday – Turday.

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very once in a while, a hotel opens up that challenges assumptions, rearranges the landscape, and injects a bolt of lightning into the area. The Reeds at Shelter Haven is that sort of place. With a design that thoroughly modernizes the classic beach aesthetic—think impeccably weather-washed woods, contemporary yet deeply comfortable public spaces, and rooms and suites that are spacious and cozy all at once—and a staff as well-versed in the art of hospitality as any in South Jersey, The Reeds has quickly become a go-to destination for shoregoers in the short time it’s been open.

But of late, this beach haven is also singing its siren song for foodies.

“Dining has always been somewhat limited in town, so by adding Sax as a year-round option, it offers a beautiful new dining experience,” says Julie Yeager, director of sales for The Reeds. “Sax has added to the Stone

Harbor community in so many ways.”

The New American menus—and inventive cocktails—have proven to be hits with locals and visitors alike. In the mood for pan-seared diver scallops? Sax has you covered. A hearty 12-ounce rib eye? Tuck right in.

Sax’s casual-yet-elegant aesthetic sets the scene for all seasons.

In the warm weather, the views from the hotel’s other restaurant, Water Star Grille, with its 200 seats and stunning views of the bay, also complement the casual fare perfectly. “Being right in the heart of town, visitors always drift into our lounges for drinks with friends followed by dinner,” Yeager adds. “It is so exciting to present this beautiful boutique hotel to the guests of the community as we approach our second summer season. This is exactly what Stone Harbor needed.” 9601 Third Ave., Stone Harbor, NJ, 609-961-3010; reedsatshelterhaven.com PS

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Rosa Blanca serves Cuban specialties like this ceviche de pescado.

Fresh on the Scene WE SPOTLIGHT THE LATEST NEWCOMERS TO THE CITY’S FLOURISHING RESTAURANT REPERTOIRE.

BY MICHELLE MASS

Fresh pastas, grilled meats, and imported cheeses create a true, rustic Italian dining experience at Ardé in Wayne, but chef/owner Pino DiMeo’s speciality is elevating the favorite food of Neapolitans—pizza. This pizzeria serves fluffy-crusted pies cooked to perfection in a custom-built Stefano Ferrara oven imported straight from Naples.

133 N. Wayne Ave., Wayne; ardewayne.com

Brigantessa “Brigantessa will be a forneria [or bakery],” says chef/owner Joe Cicala of the casual restaurant that recently made Passyunk Avenue its home. Guests can expect traditional southern Italian street fare, baked pastas, and unique pizzas from the seasoned Le Virtù chef. “Our goal is to create an atmosphere where guests can [relax and] be themselves.”

1520 E. Passyunk Ave.

Charlie Was A Sinner A new venture from HipCityVeg owner Nicole Marquis, vegan bar Charlie Was A Sinner now occupies the space that once housed the former Thirteenth Street Bistro.

The menu, created by chef Michael Santoro, will feature plant-based bites and fresh juices, plus cocktails and bottled beers.

131 S. 13th St., 267-788-1736; charliewasasinner.com

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Chestnut Hill’s newest bistro is a classic French eatery with playful accents such as mosaic tiles and themed knickknacks strewn throughout. Philly’s best jazz musicians will play on the lower level on Thursday through Sunday evenings as guests enjoy dishes like escargot, salad Lyonnaise, and warm duck confit.

8229 Germantown Ave., 215-242-6200; parisbistro.net

Nancy Law’s new Graduate Hospital steakhouse has a fun, laid-back atmosphere that fits right into this fast-growing neighborhood. At the helm is chef Jarrett Macli, who plates up the popular Steak Maison, a 10-ounce sliced strip loin coated in the house’s signature sauce. Its version of the Bloody Mary, the Hamburger Mary, is the only one in the city with a beef slider garnish.

918 S. 22nd St., 215-545-5790; phillystripjoint.com

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“We want people to feel at home,” says owner Jonathan Petruce of his seasonally inspired spot, which focuses on wood-fired dishes and serves up a diverse drink list. Of the bi-level, 70-seat restaurant Petruce says, “We want the guest to dine in comfort, to have fun, and to leave having had an unforgettable experience.”

1121 Walnut St., 267-225-8232; petrucephilly.com

Fitting right in with the bustling foodie scene in Northern Liberties, Suppa provides an eclectic BYOB dining experience courtesy of chefs/owners Georgeann Leaming and Angelo Polito. The menu features organic and sustainable foods crafted into entrées such as shrimp and grits, curried spring rolls, and tandoori chicken.

1040 N. American St., 215-6449324; timeforsuppa.com

Rosa Blanca With an already impressive list of restaurants under his belt, chef Jose Garces continues his successful streak at his latest venture, Rosa Blanca. Offering a mix of Latin, American, and Cuban dishes, the Washington Square eatery will sate your cravings for hearty bites like empanadas and roast pork sandwiches.

707 Chestnut St., 215-925-5555; rosablancadiner.com

Tradestone Café Perfect for coffee shop aficionados, Conshohocken’s Tradestone Café recently opened its doors on Fayette Street. Not only does this adorable spot feature caffeinated favorites and a hearty selection of sandwiches, salads, and soups, but it also carries Tradestone Confections’ signature chocolates, truffles, and other candies.

117 Fayette St., Conshohocken, 484-368-3096; tradestonecafe.com PS

FIRED UP Ela chef/owner Jason Cichonski dishes on his latest endeavor, The Gaslight.

“The Gaslight will be an opportunity for me, along with my chef de cuisine James Fujioka, to use the techniques and experiences from my fine-dining background and apply them to everyday bar food. The menu features beer and cocktail-friendly chips, whipped foie gras with Earl Grey tea–soaked raisins, and small plates such as beef tartare with bonemarrow-buttered crostini and onion rings served with marinated, long, hot peppers and yuzu mayo.”

120 Market St., 215-9257691; thegaslightphilly.com

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“Enjoy one of our region’s finest food purveyors” ....“mouthwatering Deli meats” in Beautiful Willow Grove

Marc Forgione’s luxe steakhouse lures diners with its meat-centric entrées and sultry atmosphere.

The Tomahawk rib eye chop and chili lobster are American Cut’s signa ture savory plates, but the true star is the incredibly sweet Cracker Jack Sundae—complete with popcorn ice cream, caramel sauce, peanut brittle, and caramel popcorn.

Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 609-2259860; americancutsteakhouse.com

Buddakan The Atlantic City location of Stephen Starr’s beloved Asianinfused hot spot is famous for its char-grilled aged beef. The 21-day-aged New York strip loin is seasoned and grilled with togarashi (a popular Japanese spice blend), topped with a soy butter sauce, and served with a watercress salad.

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Chart House Chart House is known for its wide selection of fresh fish, so it’s no surprise that the signature dish is a classic seafood favorite, clam chowder. “Since the first Atlantic City Seafood Festival two years

ago, our New England– style clam chowder has [taken the top prize in its category],” says General Manager Michael Buchanan.

Golden Nugget Atlantic City, 1 Castle Blvd., 609-340-5030; chart-house.com

Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar Classic Cuban recipes are perfected here under the watchful eye of nationally renowned c hef and restaurateur Guillermo Pernot. Sink your teeth into the Churrasco a la Cubana—the restaurant’s chimichurri-marinated skirt steak. Roasted garlic mashed potatoes and a parsley, lemon, and onion sauce round out the dish.

2801 Pacific Ave., 609-348-6700; cubalibrerestaurant.com

Fornelletto Cucina & Wine Bar “Our signatures are as simple as fresh mozzarella di bufala and burrata served alongside a tapenade made of Sicilian fig, cured black olive, fresh basil, and virgin olive oil,” says chef/partner Stephen Kalt. “We also have a mozzarella bar, and it is incredibly popular.”

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000; theborgata.com

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Girasole Ristorante & Lounge This Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and lounge is known for its creative preparations and intense flavor combinations. Its specialty: tender, pan-seared veal medallions served with roasted saffron potatoes and guanciale. The indulgent dish is topped off with fresh thyme and rosemary, Meyer lemon, and aged white balsamic vinegar.

3108 Pacific Ave., 609-3455554; girasoleac.com

Izakaya Philly’s own Michael Schulson brings modern Japanese cuisine to Atlantic City with Izakaya. The chef’s signature dish—which he says represents both the restaurant and his culinary style best—is his edamame dumplings. The

pillowlike pockets of edamame and truffle are steamed and served with a dashi sake broth.

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000; theborgata.com

Luke Palladino “Our most popular antipasto ever is our Fiori di Zucca—local squash blossoms stuffed with sweet corn, ricotta, and Parmigiano Reggiano, which we tempura-fry and toss with more grated Parmigiano Reggiano, chives, and parsley,” says chef Luke Palladino.

“There’s such great anticipation for these things that people call weeks in advance to reserve the dish to make sure they get it.”

Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., 609-441-5576; lukepalladino.com PS FROM LEFT:

A rib eye at Robert’s Steakhouse, where Executive Chef Will Savarese employs a dry-aging process in-house.

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Enjoy the classic steakhouse in an unexpected way.

Our USDA Prime dry-aged steaks, premium seafood and award-winning wines are met with culinary ingenuity and impeccable service for a truly unique experience.

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Robert’s Steakhouse Executive Chef Will Savarese details one of the restaurant’s signature cuts.

“One of the many elements that distinguishes Robert’s Steakhouse from its competitors is our dry-aging process, which takes place on the premises. The singlecut rib eye is one of my favorite selections because of its intense flavor and tenderness—results of our painstaking dry-aging formula. Robert’s rib eye is such a superior cut of meat it needs little enhancement. I prefer to finish it with a bit of olive oil and a simple garnish of fresh herbs and fleur de sel.”

Trump Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk, 609-428-6505; robertsatlanticcity.com

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Revel’s HQ Beach Club invites guests for long weekend fun in the AC sun.

Bright Lights, Big City ATLANTIC CITY’S SCINTILLATING SEVEN-DAYSA-WEEK PARTY SCENE PROVES THIS TOWN IS FAR FROM JUST A WEEKEND GETAWAY.

BY MICHELLE MASS

The Bar at Fin Tropicana’s The Bar at Fin invites seafood lovers to enjoy food and drink specials and unrivaled ocean views at R&R Sundays. Sample raw bar delights like oysters and sushi while sipping a glass of rosé— both are half off on Sundays from 5–8 PM .

2831 Boardwalk, 800-3458767; tropicana.net

Dusk Caesars’ singular nightlife experience Dusk—a favorite among TV and music stars and located right off the casino floor—is the only late-night spot in Atlantic City open on Tuesday nights. Specially priced bottles and music by resident DJ Sat-One make the workweek a little easier to get through.

2100 Pacific Ave., 609-3453875; duskac.com

OPEN DAILY Dinner from 5pm Late Night Cocktails Desserts 3 Course Menu $30 Anytime New Extended Bar with Casual Menu

Haven Golden Nugget’s Haven nightclub will celebrate its one-year anniversary this May with Champagne Palooza as part

of their Memorial Day weekend festivities, but there are plenty of reasons to visit after the holiday: Haven gets the weekend started early on Thursday nights with DJ competitions and cash prizes.

Huron Ave. and Brigantine Blvd., 855-580-3605; havenac.com

Ivan Kane’s Royal Jelly Burlesque Nightclub Dancers shimmy and shake to the sounds of traditional cabaret tunes and rock ’n’ roll radio hits at Revel’s sexy burlesque nightspot.

In addition to Jersey Thursday Industry Nights, Royal Jelly will offer guests a comped room at Revel when they purchase bottle service on Friday nights throughout the month of June.

500 Boardwalk, 609-225-9898; revelresorts.com

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville This flip-flop-filled restaurant and bar has a parrot-head-friendly prime spot on the Atlantic City Beach right across from Resorts Casino Hotel. Drop by for weekly happy hour specials Sunday

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through Thursday at Buffett’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar, located inside Resorts, and Thursday trivia night.

1133 Boardwalk, 609-431-4100; margaritavilleatlanticcity.com

MIXX End the weekend on a high note with Mixx’s Social Sundays. In addition to complimentary admission for hotel guests and Borgata’s Black Label cardholders, top-notch bottles like Belvedere, Moët Nectar Impérial, and Moët Nectar Impérial Rosé are all specially priced. We can’t think of a better excuse to reserve a table.

1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000; theborgata.com

Mur.mur One of Atlantic City’s most enduring weekday parties happens inside the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa’s subterranean nightclub. Mur.mur Mondays offers $200 Ketel One bottles before midnight and complimentary admission until 11 PM for select guests who flock here for the stellar DJ lineup and super-fashionable night-out crowd.

1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000; theborgata.com

The Pool After Dark Grab a group of gals and head to Harrah’s The Pool After Dark for Ladies’ Night every Wednesday. Arrive before midnight for complimentary admission and then lounge poolside in one of the breezy cabanas. Bottle service tops off the VIP experience.

777 Harrah’s Blvd., 609-4415000; thepoolafterdark.com

Scores The much-hyped opening of Atlantic City’s first true gentlemen’s club in late 2013 was worth the

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wait: The expansive spot features a state-of-the-art sports bar, exclusive beachside day and nightclub, and a high-roller lounge. Hardly just a weekend destination, Scores is open weekdays and offers complimentary admission from 7 to 8 PM. 1000 Boardwalk, 855-500-7267; scores-ac.com PS

DAY TRIPPERS Matt Minichino, director of operations for Angel Management Group East Coast, on what’s new at HQ Beach Club.

“Spring is here and summer is around the corner. HQ Nightclub has been providing guests with world-class DJ talent and amazing nightlife experiences all yearround. With the opening of HQ Beach Club this spring, the two hot spots will own the day-to-night experience in Atlantic City for partygoers. And it isn’t just Fridays and Saturdays—as the weather gets better, we will keep things going on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays for the long weekend.”

500 Boardwalk, 609-3452211; revelnightlife.com

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GUIDE relax

The Hanakasumi ritual at Vive Day Spa & Salon is inspired by Japanese tradition and features exfoliation and foot and body massage.

Body Conscious PAMPER YOURSELF FROM HEAD TO TOE WITH AC’S MOST LUXURIOUS SPA TREATMENTS.

BY ALEXANDRA LESHNER

The Hydra-Quench Remineralizing Body Wrap at Harrah’s Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa will tempt ocean lovers in need of intense, all-over therapy as temperatures begin to creep upward. Using marine-based ingredients to hydrate and repair the skin, the treatment includes a deep exfoliating body massage, a reenergizing body mask, and a final rubdown with moisturizing body milk.

Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., 609-441-5333; harrahsresort.com

Qua Baths & Spa “The Cleopatra Body Ritual begins with a kiwi exfoliation to buff away dead skin,” says director of spa operations Andrea Magalhaes. “You are then cocooned in a detoxifying mask designed to reduce water retention and the appearance of cellulite while your feet are massaged.

This ritual concludes with a full-body massage and scalp treatment.”

Caesars Atlantic City, 2100 Pacific Ave., 609-343-2400; caesarsac.com

The Salon & Spa at Bally’s The sumptuous Hot Toddy treatment incorporates rich Kentucky bourbon, which is full of minerals and vitamin B6.

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A hot-towel infusion of warm milk precedes a bourbon and brown sugar scrub that eliminates dry patches and rough skin. The final touch is a peppery caramel lotion applied with hot stones.

Bally’s Atlantic City, 1900 Pacific Ave., 609-340-4601; ballysac.com

Sea Spa Bid adieu to the drying effects of winter with a deep exfoliation at the Sea Spa. The Mermaids Secret/Sea Creature treatment— performed in the spa’s wet room—stimulates circulation with Dead Sea salts, algae, and marine sediments. Its combination of warm and cool sensations will leave your skin refreshed and silky smooth.

111 S. Chelsea Ave., 609-4284554; thechelsea-ac.com

Spa at the Taj The Real Aromatherapy Experience at the Spa at the Taj is customized based on the emotional and physical needs of each client. With 12 signature oils to choose from, guests will find the therapeutic benefits endless. Swedish and neuromuscular massages put the oils to work.

Trump Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk, 609-449-6100; trumptaj.com

Spa & Salon at the Golden Nugget After considering the expansive

menu of treatments at the Spa & Salon at the Golden Nugget, you’ll want to indulge in the Tropical Body Butter Wrap.

The luxurious service begins with a dry-brush exfoliation and sugar glow followed by a full-body application of warm body butter and a scalp massage.

Golden Nugget Atlantic City, 1 Castle Blvd., 609-340-5001; goldennugget.com

BODY WORKS Bluemercury CEO and cofounder Marla Malcolm Beck recommends Atlantic City’s most revitalizing treatment.

Spa Toccare “Our Moor Mud Body Float is perfect for spring because it’s detoxifying and addresses inflammation,” says Jennifer Aarons, director of spa operations at Borgata. “The hydration is amazing for the skin and our Soft Pack submersion table brings you the ultimate relaxation with the sensation that you’re floating on a cloud.”

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-7555; theborgata.com

Vive Day Spa & Salon Inspired by Japanese tradition, the Hanakasumi ritual features a body exfoliation with cherry blossom and rice powder gommage, a reflexology foot massage, and a full-body massage using melted shea butter. The 80-minute treatment is designed to soften the skin and promote complete relaxation.

Showboat Atlantic City, 801 Boardwalk, 609-343-4118; vivedayspa.com PS

“The Purifying Tea Tree and Lemon Rejuvenation treatment includes a mineral body scrub to buff away dry skin, a body mask chosen for your skin’s needs, a foot reflexology treatment, a body massage, and more. The head-to-toe treatment is one of the Tropicana location’s most popular services as it can be customized to suit a client’s particular skin type.”

Tropicana Casino & Resort, 2831 Boardwalk, 609-3477778; tropicana.net

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Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa

The head-to-toe Purifying Tea Tree and Lemon Rejuvenation at Tropicana can be customized to suit a client’s specific needs.

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Playing Politics WOMEN VYING FOR MAJOR POLITICAL OFFICES IN UPCOMING STATE AND CITY ELECTIONS PROVE THAT MAYBE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS’ MENTALITY HAS FINALLY RUN ITS COURSE.

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hat seems so absurdly small-minded to me about our country’s Founding Fathers is that while they were in Philadelphia, hanging with fellow bewigged members of the Continental Congress, figuring out what to include in the Declaration of Independence, and scratchily writing with quill pens “that all men are created equal,” some of their wives were whispering in their ears how nice it would be to add a paragraph on women’s rights and representation. But because it was 1776-ish and all about the boys, women were given a pat on the head, sent back to their soapmaking, and, in the case of Abigail Adams, called “very saucy” by husband John, who, as you know, succeeded George W— that’s Washington, not Bush—as president.

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And so it seems that until present day, women have mostly been background noise in Pennsylvania politics. In fact, it has been so awkward that in the early ’80s, a speaker addressing the Erie City Council—comprised of councilmen and the first elected councilwoman in the city’s history—referred to “the city fathers and city mother.” To date, a woman has never served as senator or governor in Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia has never had a female mayor.

But it’s possible that the next two years could be when women finally break through the Keystone State’s notorious boys’ network as Democratic Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz makes a bid for governor in 2014. And with Mayor Michael Nutter set to depart City Hall in 2015, a few female names, like those of PAWS founder Dana Spain and public schools watchdog Helen Gym, are already being floated around as potential contenders.

The only question is: What took them so long?

“The Pennsylvania political institution has been a patriarchal one going back to the Founding Fathers,” says Dana Brown, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University. “We’ve found that while women are wonderful volunteers and leaders in their communities, taking that leadership role and transferring into the political arena isn’t always clear for women. That is what my role and the center are designed to do. [Our goal is to] demystify the role of politics in our lives and highlight the importance of having women in public leadership positions.”

Though her leadership seminars shed light on the political process and attract women who may be thinking of running for office, Brown says there are also negatives to consider.

“When women are asked why they don’t run for office, they often cite things like privacy issues, the work-life balance, and negative campaigning,” she says.

So not for me! In fact, the only time I’ve ever held office was in the 10th grade. There were 40 girls in my class and some of us, fed up with the same goody girls getting elected every year, got together and rigged the election. My other foray into politics was in the era when women campaign volunteers were relegated to stuffing envelopes and flirting with candidates.

But for you PA fellows pitted against such qualified women, just know they’ve been itching to go since 1776, when, according to Phyllis Lee Levin, author of the compelling bio Abigail Adams, Mrs. A wrote to Mr. A nudging him to “Remember the Ladies... Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.”

Nearly 240 years later, the ladies of Pennsylvania have waited long enough. PS

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