A photographer using Walker Evans-style surreptitiousness, has taken 3,330 photographs of perfect strangers riding the New York City subway system in 2012. Here’s a flip-book style […]
On February 6th, former Blondell Reynolds Brown campaign manager turned $87,000-a-year airport patronage appointee John McDaniel (seen here with Bill Clinton and President Obama via […]
Dear Monica, Is it true that February 13th is now being referred to as “Mistress Day”? Women need to be in the know. —E.L., Wynnewood
AP reports: “A second judge has acknowledged fixing traffic tickets in Philadelphia for people with connections to the system. Kenneth Miller pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday […]
Talk about your grade inflation—Megan Thode is suing Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., for the C+ she received in a fieldwork class in her graduate […]
The Inquirer reports on the death of Delco resident, Matthew White, a Penn basketball star in the late 1970s who was drafted by the Portland […]
NBC News: “North Korea declared Tuesday that it had carried out a test of a nuclear bomb after the detonation was detected by the U.S. […]
Seems everybody hates the pro-adultery billboard over on I-95 in Southwest Philly. For you prudes who haven’t made a point of driving over to see […]
Brushing aside allegations that she used campaign funds for personal reasons, as well as the federal charges being levied against her former campaign manager, Blondell […]
Early last month, I tweeted a completely innocuous message about being glad that my mother was with me when I fainted twice on the floor […]
In a town full of corruption, seemingly, at every level and corner of government, the lowly crossing guard stands alone—a symbol of sweetness to and […]
Sister Barbara, who spends a lot of time thinking about the end of the world, had a dream about Philly’s destruction during the Biblical End […]
Today’s New York Times takes a look at a Scared Straight-type program at Temple University Hospital, a violence prevention program called “Cradle to Grave” that […]
It keeps getting worse for Council Member Blondell Reynolds Brown. First it was revealed that she paid personal debts out of her campaign funds—an ethical […]
A colleague snapped this photo during her lunch break today. In case you have to squint to see the sign, it reads: THE KKK KILLED […]
