A version of this story ran last October. On October 10, 2013, at 8:30 a.m., 81-year-old Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr. passed away. “So what?” […]
Oh, how I wish the politicians of Pennsylvania would stop kissing the ring of Penn State football. The king — Joe Paterno — may be […]
Update: Smith has been suspended by ESPN for his comments. Stephen A. Smith (or “Screamin’ A,” as one of my Twitter followers calls him) gave […]
It doesn’t really seem that long ago. It was, though. I was 23 in 2006. Ryan Howard was three years older. And when I went […]
One recent afternoon, associate editor Joel Mathis — who covers media, politics and other Important Stuff for our website, Phillymag.com — had an experience most […]
The other day on my way home from work, when I was a block away from my house, I pulled over and called my son […]
Poor Michael Smerconish. Pennsylvania still isn’t killing people as fast as he’d like. So the radio host/CNN talking head took to the most prominent op-ed […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
Arctic Splash isn’t made in Fishtown. It isn’t made in Philadelphia, or even Pennsylvania. But that hasn’t stopped the budget-priced iced tea — basically water, […]
Philadelphia and the entire tri-state area is so dyed-in-the-wool Democrat blue that it is difficult sometimes to have a conversation about national politics, especially about […]
In 2009, a friend and I were driving from Key West to Fort Lauderdale. The night before had been a long one (is there any […]
When I first got my cat, a rescue from the streets of Kensington, he wasn’t exactly house-broken. It took five weeks, three Craigslist futon cushions […]
Barring some disastrous circumstances, I can’t really see myself voting for Tom Corbett’s re-election in November. Then again, you probably can’t either. Polls consistently show […]
They’re called demolisticles. Or, at least that’s the name FiveThirtyEight editor Chadwick Matlin came up with for them. The idea is that you appeal to a […]
On Monday, I lead three rotational sessions about journalism and black feminism at the University of Pennsylvania’s Social Justice Research Institute. The classroom is made […]
