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Is Pittsburgh Really Better Than Philly? (Spoiler Alert: No)

So there’s this website, NerdWallet.com, that’s ostensibly a personal finance site but which often sends out press releases ranking cities compared to this or that criteria […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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The 12 Worst Pieces of Public Art in Philly

Philadelphia is a city awash in public artworks. Some of them are magnificent. Some of them are dreadful. The thing about public art that’s dreadful […]

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The Phillies Don’t Deserve Your Cheers

I’m sitting here watching a Phillies game on a Wednesday night. They are getting pounded, 6-0, by the Milwaukee Brewers, another reflection of the brutality […]

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Colonel Mustard, In the Refrigerator, With Corporal Ketchup

I’m a reasonable woman, by which I mean I don’t get riled easily. I understand that not everything in life, or on the Schuylkill Expressway, […]

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We Owe Mr. Trump a Big “Thank You”

Now, more than ever, I’m a huge fan of Donald Trump. The guy’s having a tough week, to be sure, but as NBC cuts their […]

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Whitewashing History

Recently it was revealed Boston-bred actor Ben Affleck asked the producers of the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Roots to omit the fact that his […]

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There Are Still Confederate Flag Shirts for Sale in Wildwood

For four years now, I’ve been chronicling Wildwood boardwalk t-shirts in a silly column on this website. Last year, I wrote about a constant presence […]

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The Dick Cheney-ization of America

Back in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney horrified conservatives when, at a town-hall meeting in Iowa, he came out in favor of gay marriage, a […]

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There Are Two Ways for Sixers Fans to Look at the Jahlil Okafor Pick

Basketball writer Derek Bodner is covering the NBA draft for Philadelphia magazine at Sixers Draftland.  The results of Thursday night’s NBA draft left many Sixers fans confused […]

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Philadelphia, We Needed the Cheesecake Factory

Everyone has their safe space. Maybe you like to take a time-out at Rittenhouse Square when the office feels like it’s closing in. Or perhaps […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The NRA Took a Hit

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Sixers Made the Best Possible Pick

The Sixers made the absolute best pick they could have made in taking center Jahlil Okafor with the third pick in the NBA draft. Now, […]

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It’s Time for Philadelphia to Take Down Its Own Symbol of Hatred

On Monday, the right-thinking people of the Union let out a collective you go girl when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal […]

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Why Do I Find Taylor Swift So Annoying?

It was hard not to cheer for Taylor Swift over the past couple days. Less than 24 hours after she penned a blog post criticizing […]