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Vernon the Barbarian
They're shimmying into the Tweeter Center arena now, 5,000 strong, drinks in hand, silver New Year's hats emblazoned with wow! atop their heads, while the […]
The Sex Offender Next Door
Cape May County doesn't appear to be the sort of place where a battle over Megan's Law would begin. This is where families rush to […]
A Familys Struggle
Tammy and Andy Reid (Philadelphia Eagles Coach), speak out about their sons’ drug and legal problems for the first time. On January 30th, 2007, Garrett […]
Who Deserves a Statue — And Who Never Did? Philly’s Monument Lab May Have Answers
Just last August, a 34-year-old West Philadelphia painter named Joy Taney went door-to-door in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood and made an unusual request. She wanted people […]
Heidi Hamels Is More Than Just Mrs. Cole Hamels
Heidi Hamels will hate the way this story begins. But this is where her story must begin, because without it, the farm girl never becomes […]
The End of the Lie
Man has sifted truth and lies, it seems, as long as we’ve spoken to each other. Eve ate the snake’s apple, and we haven’t gotten […]
How One Philly Institute Is Demystifying the Serious Science of Smells
Flashback to 1968, and the dining room of our house in Glenside. I’m 12. It’s a Friday night, and my mom is Catholic, which means […]
The Late Great Northeast
JULY 1971 You don’t want to ask. It’s Saturday, and Dad does his own thing on Saturdays. He doesn’t take you fishing or to ball games […]
The Betrayal
IT WAS MARCH 2003, and Vince Fumo should have been happy. He was Vince Fumo, after all, and his life had been an epic, unlikely […]
Is School the Enemy?
Once upon a time in America, hardly anybody learned the abcs. Oh, there were governesses and tutors and private academies of learning, but they were […]
The Betrayal
Prisoner advocate Jim McCloskey couldn’t stop the execution of convicted murderer Roger Coleman. But he kept trying to prove Coleman’s innocence — and the result […]
What if Zell Kravinsky isn’t crazy?
After word got out that one of Philadelphia's most eccentric millionaires, Zell Kravinsky, had donated a kidney to a random stranger, a reporter at one […]
Can a Philly Movie Studio Really Compete with Hollywood?
He never admitted to anyone that it was a crazy idea, even though at first glance it was obviously crazy. He did keep a self-deprecating […]
Eagles Leader Malcolm Jenkins on Race, Justice, and His New Filmmaking Career
Malcolm Jenkins is sore. “Two days after the game, it’s like when all your meds and stuff wear off,” he says, gingerly settling into a […]
Amy Gutmann Is Brilliant, Boring, Inclusive, Safe, Distant, Warm, and Able to Stand on Her Head.
One afternoon in early December, Amy Gutmann, dressed in a puffy blue coat, exits her office and traverses Locust Walk to her next appointment, a […]