Last weekend, SEPTA cancelled 8 regional rail trains. Why? Not enough conductors and engineers. Why? Federal work rules were tightened in 2011, limiting the amount […]

  Last Saturday, I found myself at one of my favorite watering holes of yesteryear. Like many of the dives I used to frequent, I […]

Kate Flannery–aka Meredith the sexually irresponsible Supplier Relations Representative on “The Office”–will be in Philly this summer for a two-week run at the Suzanne Roberts […]

Catching up with Contarino about his assault.

The powers that be over at the headquarters of the Inquirer and Daily News are surely breathing sighs of relief. Last week, Philadelphia Common Pleas […]

The season of cummerbunds and boutonierres is upon is. Time Magazine has obtained, from an old high school friend of Barack H. Obama’s, photos from his […]

  It’s good to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus, yet again. It’s even better to see her as the vice president. Season two of Veep is making […]

The unions are out protesting today in front of the Westin on 17th Street, where the Michael Nutter-led U.S. Conference of Mayors is holding an […]

Third time’s a charm?

Want to cruise through the Philly airport? Of course you do! Since January, I’ve been through our local airport more than 30 times (mostly on […]

There are other squares, of course, scattered about the city like so many verdant postage stamps, their benches weathered and welcoming. But there is only […]

At last, JetBlue has come along. The US Airways monopoly on trans-colonial northeastern city airline transportation has ended. Philly to Boston. Boston to Philly. Starting […]

Diddy, aka Sean Combs, is an official endorser of Ciroc vodka. Which explains why the erstwhile rapper was in nightlife, USA, yesterday meeting with the […]

I swore I was done. I promised I would never waste another column writing about how pathetic Philadelphia is. And how its complacent residents and […]

A year ago last winter, I woke up at 3:30 in the morning for the third night in a row, in the midst of a […]