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A Leader Lost: Frank Baldino

We don’t have many great leaders in this area so it is painful when we lose one. Last Tuesday, Philadelphia said its goodbyes to Frank […]

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Known Unknowns (And the Lying Liars Who Lied Us Into War)

Seeing as how former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be at the Constitution Center tonight hocking his memoir, Known and Unknown, I figured it’s […]

Restaurants

Tale of the Tape: Opa

[wps3 id=”8″] Opa is opa-ning Thursday, February 10 at 1311 Sansom Street. The ramshackle space has been transformed into a modern Greek restaurant and bar. […]

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Streisand to Play Mama Rose!

The Los Angeles Times confirmed Barbra Streisand has signed on to play Mama Rose in a new movie-musical adaptation of Broadway’s Gypsy. Rosalind Russell and […]

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Sexy Valentine’s Day Gifts

As many of you may already know, I sometimes create my own furniture and colognes. That’s why I created a new fragrance for men called […]

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Hump Day Headlines

First openly gay African-American elected as state legislator. Gay Maryland lawmakers support marriage equality. Indiana wants to ban gay marriage. Gay porn star is the […]

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What We Love: V-Day Whoopie Pies

Grocery recently baked up two kinds of special Valentine’s Day whoopie pies featuring chocolate with sweet strawberry filling and red velvet with cinnamon cream cheese. […]

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7-Year-Old Supports Marriage Equality

Most seven-year-olds could find a lot of ways to spend money – like on toys, candy and video games. But when a little boy named […]

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Rachel Maddow Blames the Religious Right for a Gay Activist’s Death

Openly lesbian talk show host Rachel Maddow discussed the murder of gay activist David Kato in Uganda on her show recently, saying that there is […]

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My Funny Valentine

There’s less than a week left now before Valentine’s Day, which means lovers all over the Delaware Valley are running around frantically, trying to decide […]

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Why Comcast Should Carry Al Jazeera

Comcast carries  more than 500 channels, catering to every interest from sports to news to weather to cooking to nature to lifestyle to kids to […]

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Just Die Already

A couple weeks back, I told you about New Jersey Republican Chris Smith’s plan to redefine rape in service of his anti-abortion agenda. The idea, […]

Restaurants

We’re Doing It Again: The Nerdiest Food Nerd Thing Ever

What did you think of our totally nerdtastic live-blogging of lunch at Le Pain Quotidien? Nerdy enough for you? Well, we’re doing it again. This […]

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Today is Black HIV and AIDS Awareness Day

February 7 marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). Appropriately, this year’s theme is “It Takes a Village to Fight HIV/AIDS!” (More on that in […]

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Andy Reid’s Power Has Never Been Greater

There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that in the wake of Andy Reid’s stunning move to elevate offensive line coach Juan Castillo to […]