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Made with locally sourced ingredients, Earth Bread + Brewery’s hearth-baked flatbreads—“pizza” to laypeople—include toppings such as baby spinach, kalamata olives, seasonal greens, walnuts, roasted potatoes, spicy turkey sausage and blackened chicken. The Mount Airy neighborhood spot also pours regional drafts and its own house-brewed alts, smoked wheat ales and Belgian-style dubbels. Read

                             

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Lonely Planet, the top travel guidebook publisher in the world, today released its annual list of the “Top 10 U.S. Destinations for 2013,” and Philadelphia landed high atop the list in the number four position based on its strong arts scene. The locations—both emerging and perennial favorites—were selected and ranked by the company’s team of U.S.-based editors and authors.  Read

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Major openings and exciting events and exhibitions offer plenty of reasons for travelers to add Philadelphia to their must-visit list in 2013. For animal lovers, there’s the Philadelphia Zoo’s new children’s zoo and education center. For history buffs, the opening of the Benjamin Franklin Life & Legacy Museum—formerly Franklin Court—will be big. For fashionistas, it’s the 30 dresses featured in the Come See About Me: The Mary Wilson Supremes Collection exhibition that are sure to dazzle. And for culture vultures, the return of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is sure to please.  Read