Opinion
Why Are Interns Sleeping In Toilets? Three Questions About Intern Abuse
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times… for the lowly intern. As the economy improves, there are certainly more internship […]
Arthur Goldman and the PLCB: Rare Wines. Bad Law. Big Trouble.
Let’s grant this: What Arthur Goldman (allegedly) did was dumb. It was, if proven, certainly illegal. And if convicted, he’ll likely pay a steep price […]
The Philadelphia Bedbug Problem Is Worse Than You Think
I never realized what a problem bedbugs were until some of my friends got them. My friends who have had bedbugs — and there have […]
Girls Season 3: Is Hannah Growing Up?
I’m worried about Hannah. I count on the lead character of Girls to be cuckoo like Cocoa Puffs, in an arrested-adolescent, navel-gazing, borderline-endearing sort of way. […]
What Do You Tell Kids When Pot Is Suddenly Legal?
On New Year’s Day, the New York Times’s Jack Healy tweeted a tender family portrait of a father and son who had trekked all the […]
It’s Time to End the Inky Ownership Battle
If you care about Philadelphia’s newspapers — if you want to see the Inquirer and Daily News on the stands at your local Wawa, say, […]
2014 Movie Preview: The 12 Films You’ll Watch This Year
Divvy up your 2014 theater visits with this movie-a-month guide, starting with computer love and running straight through to a nouveau hard knock life. Her […]
How I Resolved to Quit Facebook and Rediscovered the World
One of my resolutions for 2014 (besides the annual “This year, I will quit smoking, drink tons of water and actually attend the spinning classes […]
I Changed My Mind About Chris Christie During the Bridgegate News Conference Yesterday
I have been lukewarm on the “Chris Christie for president” media crusade. Although I like the Harry Truman-style straight talk, I don’t like the Nixon-like […]
Bridgegate: Chris Christie’s Big Government Problem
An old joke: Republicans are the people who spend years and years and years telling you how awful government is — then, when elected to […]
Marijuana is Legal In Colorado. So When Will America’s Super-Racist Drug War End?
According to a 2013 report by the ACLU, blacks are almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. It’s a […]
Why WWE Smackdown Is Like a Night at the Orchestra
Randy Orton is slagging Philadelphia, and I’m smiling while I boo. Orton is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a title that is so important he […]
Jennifer Weiner’s Hard-Knock Life
“Guys! There is a giant thing about me in the New Yorker!” Philly author Jennifer Weiner crowed on Twitter on Monday. And so there is: 6,800 […]
No One Should Feel Bad for Michael Bay After He Lost His Cool in Vegas
Am I the only one annoyed with Michael Bay? Bay is a Hollywood producer and director, known mostly for his work on films like Armageddon […]
Your Crazy-Expensive Wedding is Destroying Society
Let me confess: I’m a lucky guy. When I started courting my soon-to-be-wife back in 2005, she quickly let me know she wasn’t a diamond […]