In the spring of 1975, Sylvester Stallone sat down with a black Bic pen, cracked open a red Mead spiral notebook, and began writing: “It […]
Glancing at her in her flouncy, floral blue and white sundress, looking kittenish with her legs tucked underneath her on the sofa, you’d never guess […]
Listen to the audio edition here: Usually, tax forms are boring affairs — inked in drab black and white, lines stacked on top […]
Listen to the audio edition here: John Carson’s little spread at the Manatawna Farm community garden sits off a gravel road along the […]
Listen to the audio edition here: In chaotic conflicts like active crime scenes and urban warfare, closed doors can be as dangerous as […]
In 1963, Benzion Netanyahu — a Jewish history academic and editor — and his wife, Tzila, packed up their three sons and moved across a […]
The middle-aged man sitting at the bar hadn’t been there before. That’s what he told the bartender, Eddie,* as he ordered his drinks — a […]
To understand why so many Philadelphians are convinced the city is about to become America’s epicenter of professional women’s sports, you need to go back […]
On a cold and windy day in March, a horde of real estate agents descended on deep South Philly, seeking to catch a glimpse of […]
It’s the first day of June, a brightly sunny afternoon, the cornflower-blue sky speckled with a few cotton-ball clouds, no rain, no wind. In other […]
Two years ago, an unexpected notification on my phone derailed my day. A longtime listener of my band, Makeshift Hammer, sent us a DM with […]
Listen to the audio edition here: This is it? On a lovely morning in early spring I’m standing on 3rd Street in Society Hill, staring […]
Marc Lamont Hill was never the same after his brother Anthony gave him a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X when he was a […]
Missing firearms, a no-bid contract, stalled reforms: Why are Rochelle Bilal’s fellow pols still standing by her? Read more at The Philadelphia Citizen.
You cannot stay on the summit forever. You have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: There is an […]
