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Comcast Knows How Much You Hate Them — and They Really Want to Fix It
It sounds like the title of a ’70s action flick starring Pam Grier, set to an Isaac Hayes soundtrack: Asshole Brown and SuperBitch. As it […]
Debt and Despair: Pennsylvania Students and Our Broken College Loan System
My eldest daughter and her friends are frantic about college. They talk about it ad infinitum: how to bulk up their curricula vitae to improve […]
Eric Blumenfeld Is Crazy Enough to Revitalize North Broad Street
Wandering through the rusty, funky skeleton of the Divine Lorraine Hotel is a hallucinatory experience, as if someone had unsunk the Titanic, dragged it through […]
Beautiful Music
Imagine a Rittenhouse Square mansion stuffed with the world’s top musical prodigies. Now imagine you’re one of them, trying to survive round-the-clock rehearsals, barking instructors […]
Will the Real Joe Banner Please Stand Up?
Joe Banner is deep into talking about what it’s like, to run a pro football team in Philadelphia, when there’s a knock on his office […]
Patrick Kennedy and the Jersey Girl
ON MARCH 31, 2010, PATRICK KENNEDY came to Atlantic City to give a speech. In the previous nine months, he had buried both his father, […]
Dennis Alter and the Tragedy of Advanta
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when tycoon Dennis Alter threw himself a birthday party and decided to fly in Elton John to serenade his guests, the extravagance […]
A.C. Now: Nightlife
A.C. has always been a beacon for the late-late crowd — but now there’s reason to come to town both to get the party started […]
Confessions of a Main Line Housewife: Amy Burnham Tells All
Whoosh! A gust of chilly night air sweeps in as the doors open onto the theater lobby on a rainy, bone-chilling night that only […]
Jersey Shore Rental Guide, Part 3: Ocean City to Cape May
On the way to Cape May… you will pass by (if you take the Garden State Parkway) or through (if you take the local roads) […]
Thigh, Eagles, Thigh
The road to being a Birds cheerleader is paved with torturous tryouts, exhausting dance routines and lots of mascara. But could today’s pom-pom girls also […]
Teenagers Are More Stressed Than Ever. Who’s to Blame?
One morning last fall, I was sitting at Green Engine Coffee in Haverford when I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. One buzz at […]
The Cosby Show
In the late summer of 1965, just before Bill Cosby’s espionage series I Spy debuted — with Cosby the first leading black man in a […]
Birdie Africa: The Lost Boy
HE WENT TO THE FIRE The city was burning, and he went to the fire and got as close as he could. Something strange had […]
David Magerman’s Big Plan to Burn Down the Internet
You’re being watched. Anything you search, anything you buy online, anything you even consider buying online before your better sense kicks in — an entire […]