Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Philadelphia Johnny Awards, where I will honor the greatest actors, actresses, directors and movies from Philadelphia. Today, […]

A protest over the Secret Court

Have you ever taken a long car drive, and you’re waiting for a rest stop, and your stomach is growling and everyone in the car […]

Here’s the walk that has to be walked by anyone proposing reform of the Philadelphia School District: Come out from behind desks and board tables, […]

Coming out in college sports

Remember when Guns N’ Roses didn’t show up for that 2002 show at the First Union Center, leading to a tour cancellation and a fatwa […]

My sister and brother never go to the movies. Who needs to schelp to the multiplex, they argue, when they can watch Netflix on their […]

One of my guilty pleasures is Great Sports Debate: From the Vault, which features TV episodes of the 1990s Philly sports chat fest. There’s the […]

Witness Testifies That Sexual Encounter Became Gossip at Rutgers. Dharun Ravi is on trial in the Rutgers Webcam Case for, among other things, bias intimidation. […]

A John Whittier School fifth-grader has been suspended for bringing a pellet gun to school and shooting another student in the leg. Authorities originally reported […]

That headline is not the result of a messed up MadLib. As screwed up as it sounds, it’s the story of Robert Franz. Franz is […]

Today, a lot of people are saying that the Oscars are racist. Last night Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars for the ninth time. If you […]

Jan Berenstain passed away Friday after suffering a stroke. She was a Philadelphia native and co-creator of The Berenstain Bears children’s books. Berenstain had been working […]

A shooting at a high school outside of Cleveland has left one student dead and four others wounded. A juvenile student at Chardon High School […]

Last night’s Oscars rounded up the usual bevy of stars, all ridiculously primped, polished and styled within an inch of their lives. It was a […]