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READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
■ The 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards will be here before you know it — and your say says a lot. There are new categories, returning favorites and the chance to win $100. See ballot on page 35.
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
■ Blue Belly BBQ’s chef Gene Giuffi shares his recipe for a favorite side dish at his Bella Vista eatery in the new food feature, No reservations required. He and his wife Amy also run the nearby Cochon BYOB. See page 25.
Mechanical engineer Alexander Numann expertly worked the waterjet cutter to prepare identification badges.
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van Malone admires those whose artistic or scientic sensitivities inspire their desires to thrive. Since Jan. 17, the founder and president of NextFab 2 Studio, 2025 Washington Ave., has welcomed such ambitious figures to his 21,000-square-foot facility, fraternizing with art-
ists, designers, engineers and inventors aiming to promote their visions. “We celebrate the geek here,” the Center City resident said Monday at the South of South location, inspecting a few of the machines that have given established and novice creators feasible means to start, tinker with or complete projects. “The simple, complicated and exotic all come to life here.” A descendant of University City Science Center,
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which Malone opened in 2009, had incorporated the following year and now lauds as the Department of Making and Doing, the one-month-old spot teemed with activity on the rainy afternoon as many of the combined sites’ 180 members diligently plotted various innovations. First-year constituent Kurt Swanson is working on a refrigeration alteration and fondly recalled learning about See NEXTFAB 2 page 10 >>
Three youth center participants received kudos at a City Hall ceremony.
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