Sandy Hingston

A Man of Many Words

Longtime Penn writer John Shea crafts inspired stories by stringing together consecutive dictionary entries. Really.

Hingston: We have our own damned reason for not watching the games, thanks.

The Philly Zoo’s rejected cub found a new home—and a new mom.

A surprising defense from our notoriously anti-millennial boomer.

Hingston: Oh yeah, life goes on … long after the human race is gone …

65 fantastic novels, biographies, memoirs and more for your summer reading list. Because no one has time for a bad book.

If you’re playing Scrabble at our house, you play the house rules.

Watch your back, Mural Arts; there’s a new wall baller in town.

Hingston: Is that a Roman candle or are you just happy to see me?

Hingston: Yeah. That’s the kind of week it was.

Hingston: An old head does a rookie a solid.

Hingston: Talk about the vixen’s revenge.

Hingston: More like Odouble Herrera, amirite?

Hingston: Neck, neck. Who’s there?

Aka the Philly World’s Fair that didn’t go well. At all.