I didn’t notice until the fifth inning. I was actually at a hockey bar. Arthur Etchells had recommended it to me to watch Olympic hockey […]
Ruben Amaro Jr. has an affliction that baseball people, far and wide, and through decades of time, call the “red ass.” It is not a […]
In general, I try not to dissect why I care about the lives of strangers on reality TV shows. Best-case scenario, I don’t have enough […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
The ping pong balls were neither unkind nor kind to the Philadelphia 76ers the other night at the NBA draft lottery. The Sixers, armed with […]
I don’t have great taste in art. Or, maybe even worse, I don’t have any taste in art. I have a couple of nice pieces […]
Last month’s “Equal Pay Day”—the day that’s set aside to demonstrate how much extra work women must do to earn what men earn—touched off […]
The cup of coffee you carry around Philly says a lot about you. In a city where no one smiles or, God forbid, says hello, […]
They were just passing through. They didn’t intend to stop — the CEO of the start-up, the AP tech guy, the Navy midshipman, the dad. […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
With one, swift, arbitrary NFL commissioner’s office decision, Tom Brady went from perhaps the best quarterback in league history to the game’s biggest pariah. And […]
For those of us who have been pleading the cause of police reform since before Ferguson spotlighted the issue, Thursday’s acquittal of six Narcotics Unit […]
On May 13, 1985 — 30 years ago today — a city decided to selectively bomb its citizens. On Mother’s Day 1985, residents on a […]
A version of this article was originally published in 2012. On May 13, 1985 at 5:20 p.m., a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police helicopter […]
