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For Tastykake, Coca-Cola, and all the other pushers of stuff too tasty to put down, the future is looking darker than a Ho-Ho. Junk food […]

I'm standing at the back door with the dog on his leash, waiting for my son. I spend much of my life waiting for my […]

My son Jake, age 10, is playing the saxophone. This is his second year playing saxophone, and I'll go on record saying this much: It's […]

It's a steaming summer night, and we're driving home from the swim club, haze heavy in the air, heat lightning in the distance. We sit […]

Monday night, Scout night, away-lacrosse-game-this-afternoon night, science-project-due-tomorrow-why-don't-we-ever-have-any-empty-oatmeal-boxes night. Dinner's half on the table and half still in the oven when the doorbell rings. “Sit. Eat,” […]

Ask businessman Tom Knox (right) who he likes in the 2007 mayoral race, and he says, simply, “Well, I like me.” And why not? Knox […]

In addition to the usual phone-banking and leafleting, Philly union boss John Dougherty is hoping to bring a little silver-screen magic to labor's pre-election outreach. […]

The gadget-obsessed mayor — who has been criticized for fiddling with his Blackberry during meetings — has purchased one of the digital-music players and loaded […]

Just about the most interesting question you can ask someone in Philadelphia politics these days is what John Street will do once he leaves City […]

The key to any good relationship, I discovered recently, is learning to rub each other in just the right way. At least, that's what I […]

“He was trying to figure out some scheme, some set of hookups,” says Norwood's longtime confidant. It occupied him 24/7. He would sit at the […]

Give him a pencil and a pad of paper, and William Norwood can explain the universe. He'll show you why a circle is perfectly round. […]

Judging by the shock-and-awe reactions of folks in bars and restaurants across the country, James McGreevey's revelation in August — “I am a gay American” […]

The night before the Democratic convention began, Teresa Heinz Kerry visited Pennsylvania delegates and — in what became the brush-off heard round the world — […]

Gay marriage debates? Rebuilding Iraq? The Constitution Center's new boss wants it to be more than a musty museum Journalist Rick Stengel has spent his […]