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Don’t Buy the Eagles’ Spin

Talk to enough Eagles fans over the next couple weeks, and you will undoubtedly hear them lamenting what might have been. What if David Akers […]

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What’s Waiting for Tom Corbett?

He was ushered into power on a mighty wave, a leader who held great promise — and made even greater promises. Optimism that gridlock could […]

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Don’t Call Us

A slow, snowy Saturday, the sort of day on which one supposes a freshman newly returned to college after winter break might be feeling lonely. […]

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Weekend

Friday Perch Pub, a gastropub at Broad and Locust opens today at 4pm, check it out. Saturday UPDATE: The Winter Beer Fest at the Starlight […]

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Dear G Philly: Answering Reader Questions

One of my co-workers regularly makes comments that I think are anti-gay. He regularly uses “gay” as a derogatory term, like “that’s gay” and “you’re […]

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Line of the Week: Communal Irony

We are so impressed! The Foobooz Commentariat was on fire this week, zinging it up left and right. You even managed to keep the insult-slinging, […]

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Why Mike Tomlin and Tom Jackson Are Absolutely Ridiculous

I’d like to focus on what I think were a couple of criminal media faux pas this week in hopes that it will clear up […]

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50 Best Semifinals

The Philly Mag Top 50 Restaurants bracket is down to its final four. Osteria, which beat up its younger sibling in the first round now […]

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Gay Weekend Roundup

Friday, Jan. 21 Pig Iron Theatre Co. goes hog wild during Pigadilly Circus – the troupe’s annual benefit cabaret and auction – at the Troc […]

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Team Coco! Thrice-Cooked Ribs

Here’s some Friday silliness, for anyone sitting at their desk, bored. My cheffy friend Wade, who works out in Arizona, was featured on Conan O’Brien […]

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Eyeball Bender with Love

GPTMC has just launched their third batch of With Love ads and this one makes for a good eyeball bender. Can you guess the restaurant […]

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Keep Your Cones Out of My Parking Space

Shoveling snow sucks. I’ve never met anyone who sees fresh powder in the forecast and is giddy with the thought of clearing off their driveway […]

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Let Us Now Praise Southwest Airlines

I have a daughter who attends college in Boston. Two years ago, when we started the college search process, we scheduled a flight to Boston […]

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Ladies: It’s Better to Be Alone

Dear Monica,  After reading your blog last week about why men settle, I thought it would only be fair if you wrote about why women […]

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Abortion’s Back in the News. Wonderful.

Seth Williams’ timing could have been better: On January 19th, he announced a grand jury indictment against Kermit Gosnell, a West Philly abortion doc who, […]