“Feeding time,” says Shannon Boyle, pushing back her chair and pulling her attention away from the microscope she’s been bent over for the better part […]
It’s high noon on a 98-degree day in early summer, but Justin DiBerardinis doesn’t seem to know it. Wearing dark blue jeans and layered T-shirts […]
In college she wanted to be a writer, but the words refused to sparkle like her heroes’. Teaching was a disaster. The middle-school kids mocked […]
On a steamy afternoon in late May, I’m sitting inside the Wells Fargo Center, listening to the Super Bowl–winning coach of the Eagles talk about […]
There’s a boat in the lobby of the high school. It’s not a real boat, of course; it’s a 16-foot replica made of Styrofoam. The […]
Villanova athletic director Eric Roedl is not wearing a green tie this early May morning as an homage to his former employer, the University of […]
“You know, I was on the brim of Billy Penn’s hat,” Sandy Rower recalls, pointing to the William Penn statue atop City Hall, hoisted up […]
Before a single scene of the Kensington-set Long Bright River was shot, Liz Moore gathered her writing team and issued a kind of warning: Authenticity […]
One afternoon in April, a beautiful spring day, I drive with Eddie and Anthony from the Last Stop in Kensington to Graffiti Pier on the […]
On a pleasant, sunny weekend last fall, three weeks before Donald Trump would win Pennsylvania and every other swing state across America, three months before […]
When Jesse Ito turned 15, his dad, Massaharu, took him to Vetri for his birthday. It was a big deal. Well, dinner at Vetri is […]
Even though she was only in seventh grade, Tempest Bowden clearly remembers the first time she was introduced to squash. A delegation from Philadelphia’s SquashSmarts […]
Two years after the flood, Dave Love can’t help but wonder about all the small details that could have changed his fate. The timing, the […]
Some years back, a good friend of mine, whom I’ll call Margot, made the decision with her husband to send their two children to a […]
It’s moving day at Surfside headquarters in Kensington. In the main office upstairs, cardboard boxes sit ready to be taped closed, and the neon “Surfside” […]
