As I sit here alone in my bedroom with my dog, I have a community of 1,077 Facebook “friends” and a combined total of some […]
I’d only lived in Philadelphia for about three years when The New York Times published the article everyone is still pissed about. Yes, the one […]
From beginning to end, the U.S. involvement in World War II — the biggest, bloodiest confrontation the world has ever seen, and hopefully ever will […]
There is so much wrong with the Deadspin story “Philly Radio Host Gets All Homophobic In Email Fight With Listener,” I am not sure where […]
Did you watch the Super Bowl Sunday? Of course you did, it’s the Super Bowl, and even football-hating heathens tune in. While we didn’t get […]
We gave politicians the right to be corrupt. We did it when we gave them the power to pass legislation that benefits no one but […]
Philadelphia might lead the nation’s big cities when it comes to bike commuting, but this winter it feels like every single person in the city […]
I had the avocados. I had a couple of tomatoes, and a lime. I even had cilantro, which I’d hiked all the way back across […]
Could Philadelphia be the host with the most? You might wonder, since recent weeks and months seem to regularly bring news that the city is […]
Last week, President Obama made a big splashy show of announcing the formation of a task force to fight the “epidemic” of sexual violence on […]
Dan McQuade has calculated the length of Rocky Balboa’s run, pleaded for Blue Ivy to marry the Royal Baby and chronicled his condom purchases. Join him on his most […]
The end of Sugar Mom’s marked it: The bars of my youth are gone. The places I haunted as a 20-something are closed. Alfa, Sugar […]
This week’s big news out of 1234 Market Street is that, as part of its big capital project catch-up list, SEPTA may purchase bilevel electric […]
Would someone please help James Dupree already? For weeks I’ve been following his story. Hopefully you know it by now. In case you don’t, he’s […]
Twitter was aflutter with thoughts and quippy one-liners in response to the president’s State of the Union Address last night. Most reactions seemed to be […]
