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An Incomplete List of Things Deemed the “New Philadelphia Story”
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Rooster Soup Company. Funded in part by a Kickstarter backing, Rooster Soup Co. is the brainchild […]
Cheryl Ann Wadlington’s Fight to Save Black Girls
When video surfaced of a South Carolina school security officer yanking a high-school student from her desk because she had allegedly disobeyed orders to put […]
Missing Child Found Dead in Haddon Township
Chopper 6 over scene in Haddon Twp. where missing 3-year-old found dead: http://t.co/e3fl1T5NcZ pic.twitter.com/Q8THrSHDI7 — Action News on 6abc (@6abc) October 13, 2015 On Tuesday […]
Teaching College Today Was Downright Eerie
It is one of those things that you didn’t sign up for as an educator, the idea that you might have to wear a bulletproof […]
FBI Warns Area Colleges of Threat of Violence for Monday
This is a developing story. On the weekend following the deadly campus shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, the FBI has warned Philadelphia-area […]
The “Supermoon” Lunar Eclipse Is Coming!
Don’t fritter your iPhone battery tweeting away during Sunday afternoon’s papal Mass or the Eagles game against the Jets; you’ll need it to capture the […]
Philly Performer Saw British Airways Plane Burst Into Flames in Las Vegas
Reggie Bügmüncher is a sideshow artist (yes, those still exist) from the Whitman section of South Philadelphia whose act includes scary things like angle grinders, […]
Einstein Docs Talk About Performing an Amputation — Under a Train
Two Philly doctors are talking about how they amputated a man’s foot while he was pinned to railroad tracks by the train that struck him […]
Thieves Have Stolen $12,000 in Underwear from Pennsylvania Mall
Is Wilkes-Barre the Pennsylvania capital of lingerie larceny? Purloined panties? Burgled bras? Thong thievery? Maybe. What we know is this: A Victoria’s Secret shop in […]
The Dick Cheney-ization of America
Back in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney horrified conservatives when, at a town-hall meeting in Iowa, he came out in favor of gay marriage, a […]
In Charleston Church Shooting, America’s Founding Racism Rears its Ugly Head — Again
The media are notorious for name-calling. Let me be even clearer. The racist white media and their racist white viewers, listeners and readers are notorious […]
Charleston Shooting’s Unique Sorrow for Society Hill Congregation
It’s a difficult day for Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler. Twenty-one-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, wanted for Wednesday’s murder of nine people inside Charleston’s historic Emanuel African […]
“Mattress Girl,” Caitlyn Jenner, Abortion, the Bible and You
Last week was a mad-crazy week for gender relations. To recap just a few of the highlights:
The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Loretta Lynch Took on FIFA
He sounds like the abbreviation for a painful urological condition. Most Americans think she’s a country singer. That’s only part of why it was so […]
Chew On This, Anti-Vaxxers: America Has Wiped Out Rubella
In case you missed it with all the hoopla over the NFL draft, the World Health Organization made a big announcement last week: Rubella has […]