Yeah, that’s a lot of “x”‘s. But at least there isn’t an “!” in the name. Xfinity Streampix is Comcast’s streaming video service. It’ll cost […]
I don’t know if you heard, but Whitney Houston died. If by chance your response to that statement was, “No, I hadn’t heard,” please let […]
When I was managing editor of Philadelphia Weekly in the largely predigital 1990s, readers frequently came by the office to give us tips. Some panned […]
Earlier this week in Philadelphia’s Federal Court, 25-year-old Temple grad Cailin Arena and her friend Patricia McWilliam of South Carolina sued a John Doe they […]
Last week, I missed out on The Darkness, a cheeky British glam-rock band who played a sold-out show at the Trocadero. As a small consolation, […]
The reviews are in. I wrote a story in this month’s Philadelphia magazine. Perhaps you saw it. It was a profile of a woman named […]
Gawker has a new column featuring a Q&A with an anonymous therapist. In the first installment, the therapist is asked several questions that most of […]
So when I first heard someone talking about this new social network Pinterest, I thought it was, y’know, maybe a Foursquare for avid bowlers. Or […]
I’ve never seen the women in my office more outraged than they were by the news last Tuesday that pink-ifying breast-cancer juggernaut Susan G. Komen […]
One of the occupational hazards of spending most of one’s twenties listening to and writing about music (oh, and having most of one’s twenties fall […]
Perhaps you’ve heard tell of a missive that comes from AT&T in the deep of night, delivered by elves, that wakes you from your sugarplum […]
Like J. Alfred Prufrock in a social-media world, I have heard the mermaids tweeting, but I do not think they will tweet to me.
Last week, I took my closest friend Amy out to dinner for her birthday. As we settled into a table at a lovely Italian restaurant, […]
Joe Paterno has died. If you were on the Internet, you were probably pretty angry about it for one reason or another. On Saturday, Penn […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, in which case you don’t get a reliable WiFi connection, you’ve probably heard of Instagram. It’s one of […]
