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And The Ladies Who Lunch Shall Lead Them
Back in 1996, a young woman named Tracie Jerd moved to Mount Laurel, New Jersey, with her husband and landed a job as a project […]
Bakeries in Philadelphia: The Ultimate Guide
We’ve never wanted for baked goods around here, or for great bread, for that matter. Family bakeries that make old country recipes are an important […]
The Secret Life of Chip Kelly
I am in pursuit. It’s late May, and I’m spending a few days driving all over the southeastern corner of New Hampshire, that plug of […]
Meet Ed Bassmaster, Philadelphia’s Biggest Star … on YouTube
There isn’t much that grates on Philadelphians more than having their city defined by a tired canard about a Santa Claus who got booed in […]
Philly Media Giant Entercom Is Doubling Down on the Future of Radio
Like any smart CEO, David Field knows that you lead with the good news and try to hum a happy tune over the bad, especially […]
Inside YaFavTrashman’s Meteoric Rise From Mild-Mannered Sanitation Worker to Garbage Superhero
It’s a glorious Saturday morning in May, and Terrill Haigler, dressed in a gray knit cap, a black work jumpsuit emblazoned with a stylized cartoon […]
This Is Not a Dallas Cowboys Fan
Booooooo! To outsiders, that sound is a war cry, a clarion call for action, a howl of barbarism. For Philadelphia sports fans like me, the […]
Blanka Zizka: Philadelphia’s Drama Queen
As the train rumbled toward the border crossing, the young woman was terrified. It was a June day in the midst of the Cold War. […]
Wrongful Death
On Monday, March 23, 2009, just after midnight, a young lawyer named Zachary Glaser was working late when he received a text message from a […]
The Royal Family
IT WAS JUST SO … WEIRD. Last fall, a letter flew out over a public relations newswire. A shareholder in Narberth’s Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania […]
The Existential Crisis of the Wait-at-Home Mom
THEIR KIDS ARE in school. Their husbands are at work. It’s 10 o’clock on a Friday morning, and these women have nothing they need to […]
Rick Santorum Wants to Save Us From Barack Obama
The road to the White House often begins in places just like this — the harshly lit back room of a barbecue joint in Columbia, […]
Feature: The Problems of the Post-Racial Politician Operating in an Economic Downturn and Facing an Electorate Still Largely Segregated Along Lines of Class and Skin Color
ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, at the end of a week when John Street told anyone who would listen that Michael Nutter was an Oreo, the Mayor […]
Philadelphia Brunch Restaurants by Neighborhood
As a brunch town, we’ve arrived. Really, it’s a logical progression for our food-obsessed region, and local restaurants are responding by serving some of their […]
Joseph A. Rigotti
IT ONLY TOOK a few dimes to get the old-timers angry. When cousins Bill and Emilio Mignucci took over the narrow and jam-packed Di Bruno […]