My son Jake, age 10, is playing the saxophone. This is his second year playing saxophone, and I'll go on record saying this much: It's […]
It's a steaming summer night, and we're driving home from the swim club, haze heavy in the air, heat lightning in the distance. We sit […]
Monday night, Scout night, away-lacrosse-game-this-afternoon night, science-project-due-tomorrow-why-don't-we-ever-have-any-empty-oatmeal-boxes night. Dinner's half on the table and half still in the oven when the doorbell rings. “Sit. Eat,” […]
“He was trying to figure out some scheme, some set of hookups,” says Norwood's longtime confidant. It occupied him 24/7. He would sit at the […]
Give him a pencil and a pad of paper, and William Norwood can explain the universe. He'll show you why a circle is perfectly round. […]
Judging by the shock-and-awe reactions of folks in bars and restaurants across the country, James McGreevey's revelation in August — “I am a gay American” […]
The night before the Democratic convention began, Teresa Heinz Kerry visited Pennsylvania delegates and — in what became the brush-off heard round the world — […]
Gay marriage debates? Rebuilding Iraq? The Constitution Center's new boss wants it to be more than a musty museum Journalist Rick Stengel has spent his […]
If this story was about Cecily Tynan, weather-hottie extraordinaire, we'd discuss the marathon she runs every morning before checking her Doppler, and probably try to […]
Bookbinder's was born in 1893, a family-run tavern that over the next century grew into a sprawling 54,000-square-foot structure that took up most of Walnut […]
After he was reelected in November, John Street gave every appearance of being the lamest of ducks. He was under federal investigation, had alienated some […]
At the bar of Marathon on the Square, a quiet man in a gray turtleneck sweater sips a martini. It's the night of the Iowa […]
Among the scores of Best of Philly winners, perhaps the most coveted title is “Best Cheesesteak.” For better or worse, the cheesesteak is inexorably linked […]
Mosul I wish Dr. West, my history professor at St. Joseph's Prep, was still around for me to talk to. Mosul is the location of […]
When Dan Gross took over Stu Bykofsky's Daily News gossip column last month, his promotion — from part-time clerk to sole author of the paper's […]
