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How Jefferson’s Stephen Klasko Intends to Fix Our Screwed-Up Health-Care System
It’s mid-morning on a scorching late-summer day, but comfortable in a climate-controlled subterranean corridor covered in tile the shade of a ripe avocado. Stephen K. […]
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 […]