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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 […]
My Autistic Child Might Know More About What’s Important and How to Live Than I Do
My son Sam is on the autism spectrum, with Asperger’s. He now sees that as a gift, and Sam is becoming the focal point of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Francesco DeLuca
“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” — H.G. Wells THE SECOND SCARIEST THING that ever happened to Michael Sanders occurred on a sunny Saturday in June, […]
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, […]
Allen Iverson: Fallen Star
I’m operating on extreme hope. I am in Instanbul. All I know is that Allen Iverson is here — in this city of 13 million, […]
Joe Sestak Profile: Run, Joe, Run
So here’s Joe Sestak, age 57, running his skinny butt off — I mean sprinting, literally booking it down the Ben Franklin Parkway, me and […]
Atlantic City’s Last, Last, Last, Last, Last, Last Chance
PANIC SEIZED ME twice on my last trip to Atlantic City. The first occasion: I’m in the fifth-floor bar of the Chelsea Hotel at happy […]
Jersey Shore Politics: This Is What Happens When No One’s Looking
THE SKY IS SHAPELESS and gray, looming above Margate like a wool curtain. Dustin Widas sits behind the wheel of a black-and-white Ford Explorer, sizing […]
Do They Still Make Republicans Like Tom Ridge?
On election night, as the foreign country around him lay sleeping, Tom Ridge stayed up all night, watching TV. “I wanted to know who my […]
Breast Health Champions
Breast Health Champions Learn all about the 2018 American Cancer Society Breast Health Champions and how they are revolutionizing the way we think and care […]
Mommy Makeovers: The Plastic Surgery Trend Philly Moms Are (Reluctantly) Obsessed With
After a decade of marriage, I assumed that having a man who isn’t my husband stare at my boobs would be more titillating. But this […]
Moral Hazards: Philadelphia’s Ongoing Pension Crisis
Early on the morning of June 13, 1984, John Keyser and eight other firemen entered a burning rowhome on the 2000 block of Tulip Street in […]
Michael Nutter’s Dilemma
Is he too much of a reformer to be mayor? Or so hungry to be mayor that he can't be a real reformer? Michael Nutter […]