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QUICK TAKES

BAD MEDICINE, GOOD PROPOSAL Nothing says “I love you” like a marriage proposal to the tune of “Bad Medicine,” so when Jon Bon Jovi launched […]

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Editor’s Letter

I don't know if I've ever seen so much handwringing among my brethren in the mainstream media. People aren't reading. Newspaper circulation is crumbling. Bloggers […]

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Stopping Chaka

Jerome Whyatt Mondesire's latest crusade began one day last winter. Mondesire, head of the local NAACP, was smoking an afternoon cigar as he read John […]

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It’s A Hard Knox Life

Ask businessman Tom Knox (right) who he likes in the 2007 mayoral race, and he says, simply, “Well, I like me.” And why not? Knox […]

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LABOR PLAY

In addition to the usual phone-banking and leafleting, Philly union boss John Dougherty is hoping to bring a little silver-screen magic to labor's pre-election outreach. […]

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WHAT’S ON YOUR IPOD, JOHN STREET?

The gadget-obsessed mayor — who has been criticized for fiddling with his Blackberry during meetings — has purchased one of the digital-music players and loaded […]

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Coming Soon …Senator Street?

Just about the most interesting question you can ask someone in Philadelphia politics these days is what John Street will do once he leaves City […]

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Brandywined and Dined

The key to any good relationship, I discovered recently, is learning to rub each other in just the right way. At least, that's what I […]

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How to Speak Philadelphian

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Flood The Courts!

politics, floods  

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Vernon the Barbarian

They're shimmying into the Tweeter Center arena now, 5,000 strong, drinks in hand, silver New Year's hats emblazoned with wow! atop their heads, while the […]

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House of Girth

The rich may be different from you and me, as F. Scott Fitzgerald insisted, but they still like to read in the john.This reassuring fact […]

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Seniors and the internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More older adults are entering cyberspace — primarily for e-mail, according to a semi-annual report from United Business Media's (UBM.L) Mediamark […]

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Boobirds of Happiness

A first draft of this story was sent to my two sons. One didn't respond, too busy with his movie. The other, a writer and […]

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From the Editor

The photo on page 87 that opens “Price Anxiety,” this year's real estate package, is very telling indeed. It's of a guy, supine on a […]