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It seems an unlikely thing to be doing with Lynne Abraham. On a cool, breezy Friday in New York in December, we’re at the Frick, […]

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Early one Friday morning last January, I was surrounded by roughly 20,000 screaming fans, an army of half-naked women, and an effigy of Ruben Amaro. […]

Danielle Baker stared at the sheet of paper in her hand. There were more than 150 parents squeezed together in a too-small room for the […]

John Raines sat in the family station wagon, parked in a dark lot on the Swarthmore campus, waiting to see if his wife would return […]

My name is … Chubby Checker. Ernest is my first name, and Evans is my second name. But I go by Chubby Checker. I grew […]

Michael Nutter has recently finished his second glass of sangria at a soul-food joint on South Street when he starts talking about Donovan McNabb. The […]

There is, already, a bored, obligatory quality to Philadelphia’s 2015 mayoral election. The candidates underwhelm. Public interest is running low. For all its outsize influence […]

One April morning in 2006, I left a note for Bill Cosby at the back gate of his mansion that commands a five-acre spread in […]

I’m searching for the good Johnny Doc, the one he wants me to find. The new one. And here he is, in plain sight, on […]