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Knaidel: “A Yiddish term of German origin meaning “dumpling.”” When Arvind Mahankali, of New York City, was told which word he’d need to spell correctly to […]

Spring in my neighborhood is announced by a variety of sights, sounds and smells—some delightful, like the first blooms on the lilac bush in our […]

Is prom season over yet? Really, is it? Because I honestly don’t think I can bear to see one more faux-suave 17-year-old being alternately cool […]

Isn’t is just adorable when adults stumble onto some fun thing their kids do, a thing that that they don’t understand, and then make that […]

I could never be a Yeshiva student in Brooklyn. My new glasses are too cool for school. Borough Park’s Bobover Yeshiva B’Nei Zion has banned […]

Turns out that Bailey O’Neill, the Delco boy who died in March, might have passed from natural causes instead of injuries from a schoolyard fight. […]

Hi there! I’m in your English 101 class with you, and you look like a nice person. Would you like to go out on a […]

  A couple of weeks ago, I was standing in the office of my colleague Jason Sheehan, food editor of Philadelphia magazine. I don’t recall […]

The New York Times recently fanned the flames of the controversy over whether many cases of ADD, and even ADHD, are actually cases of sleep […]

Prom season is upon us. A whiff of cologne carries on the warm spring breeze, and before you know it, photos of friends’ kids and […]

Hey grownups Stop being idiots! You know what would be idiotic? Shutting down a Little League game in Morrisville this weekend so that you adults […]

Depressing: The death rate for infants in Philadelphia is about the same as it is in Indonesia, the Inquirer reports today. And Indonesia has the […]

  I get where David Oh is coming from. But with all due respect, the Councilman is wrong. Yesterday, WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reported that the […]

Ask any Penn student holed away in the bowels of the library this week for finals: There’s nothing quite as anxiety-inducing, in student life, as […]

If you have something to say that’s newsworthy, but you don’t want it in the news, it’s probably wise not to say it in front […]