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What If the Philadelphia Orchestra Can’t Be Saved?
In Allison Vulgamore’s 16th-floor office at the Philadelphia Orchestra, there’s a battery-operated toy chicken that hops around singing “Ring of Fire” in Johnny Cash’s voice. […]
The Very Public Self-Destruction of Alycia Lane
The inside story of a meltdown EVEN AFTER THE bikini photos, CBS 3 still thought it could save her. Alycia Lane arrived at World Cafe […]
The Overture
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH HAD JUST SAID YES. IT happened in Munich over lunch at a restaurant above an open-air market a few blocks from the Vier […]
Can South Philly Hold On to What’s Always Made It Unique?
In the late summer of 1981, very much against my Catholic mother’s wishes, I had just moved into a rowhouse at 17th and Naudain — […]
Ignore the Rankings: Why the Best School for Your Kid Is Probably the One in Your Neighborhood
It can be very hard to be in the minority in a social or professional setting. Those in the majority may look askance at you, […]
Remember When People Told the Truth?
Daniel Langleben has a terrible sense of timing. The Penn neuroscientist and psychiatrist was the proud lead author on a scholarly treatise published last November […]
Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Their Wildly Separate Paths to the Sixers
Ben Simmons wears the face of a kid getting dragged to Sunday school when he’d rather settle in for a Call of Duty marathon with […]
Jason Peters: Twilight Before the Hall
Jason Peters sat stoically at his stall in the center of a bustling visitors locker room, still in his game pants and wearing a black sweat-soaked […]
The Death of the Professional Critic in Philadelphia
When I and my fellow boomers get together in our dad and mom jeans and yak about the good old days when we were growing […]
Rape Happens Here
In the early 1980s, staff members in one of Swarthmore’s libraries began hanging reams of white computer paper in the bathroom stalls, which students would […]
The New Family Vacation
Booking five hotel rooms and making sure everyone knows what time to meet at the breakfast buffet—these are the things that suck the fun out […]
Robert K. Cato
PAUL THOUGHT THE HANDWRITTEN recruiting letters from the football coach were pretty cool. The coach — whose team plays in the Inter-Academic League, comprised of […]
Can Comcast Be As Mighty As Google?
ONE OF STEVE BURKE’S first acts when he took over as CEO of NBCUniversal last winter was to redecorate the walls that General Electric […]
Dawn’s Dark Days: Full Text
DAWN STENSLAND KNEW for sure, on New Year’s Day 2005, that something was wrong. It’s not that she hadn’t suspected before then. She’d heard the […]
Dawn’s Dark Days
DAWN STENSLAND KNEW for sure, on New Year’s Day 2005, that something was wrong. It’s not that she hadn’t suspected before then. She’d heard the […]