Gay hero in Arizona shooting receives standing ovation. Lesbian coach sues university after losing her job. Congress gets fourth openly gay member. Johnny Weir comes […]
Chances are none of us is ever going to really know what made Jared Lee Loughner shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and his other victims. Was […]
The Right Wing Watch posted a new video this week in which conservative commentator (and Suze Orman look-a-like) Cindy Jacobs of Generals International says that […]
I could spend most of my day dissecting Chris Freind’s morning blog post, which, if I may, can be fairly summed as follows: Taxes bad, […]
Kitchen is a new restaurant/catering service located in West Philadelphia, that aims to open on February 1st. It’s pick-up and delivery only, meaning there’s no […]
Yale prof and mom-of-two Amy Chua set the Internets aflutter this weekend when the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from her new book, Battle […]
Mom, In two days it will be your birthday again. You will be 52 years old. We don’t talk anymore, but you are in my […]
It’s hardly of the magnitude of the Arizona massacre, but the upcoming massacre of Huckleberry Finn has got me in a lather. Last week, NewSouth […]
It was a December night, late ’90s. My entire family was in downtown Philadelphia taking in the Christmas attractions. One of our traditions was marveling […]
And we’re not talking yogurt. The Philadelphia Opera Company performed this totally awesome random act of culture Saturday in the Reading Terminal Market. Did anyone […]
Krispy Kreme’s first Center City location is under construction in the former Rite Aid at the corner of 16th and Chestnut. The doughnut franchise is […]
As a sort of addendum to my morning post—in which I argued that, while the cretinous rhetoric emanating from the likes of Beck/Palin/Limbaugh is worthy […]
It seemed like an ordinary Saturday at the Reading Terminal Market. People were plucking fresh veggies from Iovine Brothers and perusing recipes at the cookbook […]
Pine Street is getting a new restaurant with an exciting pedigree. Blue Hill Farm’s chef de cuisine Josh Lawler is aiming to open the BYO […]
Doctors are now cautiously optimistic about the recovery of Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman who was shot in the head during an open meeting with […]
