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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: An Error of Biblical Proportions

When last we were paying any attention to the Museum of the Bible, the D.C.-based evangelical extravaganza funded by the Green family of Hobby Lobby fame, […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Allen Iverson Gets Paid!

Well, the Sixers opened their new season with a rather disheartening loss on Tuesday to the Celtics, by a final score of 105 to 87. Rumors […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Navy Yard Got Legs

When I was a kid, growing up in Glenside, we drove into the city regularly — to visit relatives, go to museums, see the Wanamaker’s […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Ed Rendell’s New Gig

You know that saying about those who don’t remember the past being doomed to repeat it? Americans have been doomed when it comes to drug and […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Flyers’ Funky New Friend

There once was a mascot named Gritty Whose arrival made waves through the city. The internet split On the optics of it: Is Big Orange […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: He’s Baaack!

While Nick pulled off a magical feat, And that Super Bowl win sure was sweet, We’ve waited all season, Eager beyond reason, To gather, and […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Very Wet Vacation

So our family at last went away For a fun Poconos holiday. It would have been better Had it not been wetter Than anyone ever […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Return of Nick Foles

Though no one would say it was pretty, That Thursday-night game was quite gritty. The defense stood tall, And a third-quarter ball From Nelson to Big Nick saved […]

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Teacher/Wrestling Pro Hangs Up Nazi Singlet

Kevin Bean is one of the good guys. For the past 14 years, he’s been a beloved fifth- and sixth-grade teacher in the Spring-Ford School District. He’s […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Setting Free the Bears

We live in a world with big, big problems. So many big problems that we all have to search for our own ways to cope. […]

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Yesenia’s Big Move

As a child, Yesenia Diaz Lopez lived with her grandmother in Mexico. Her mom and the rest of her immediate family lived in the United […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Zhaire Smith’s Broken Foot

On Monday, while participating in a developmental-league game in Las Vegas, Sixers rookie Zhaire Smith fractured his left foot badly enough to require surgery. In most […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Joel Embiid’s Pickup Game

PARIS❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/77QNYGYQlW — Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) July 30, 2018 Nah, not the pickup games he plays with assorted kids and not-so-kids in South Philly. And not the soccer […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Wallace for the Win!

We’re wandering a bit far afield this week, but you’ll understand when you hear about Wallace. Wallace, of Gloucestershire, England, is an 11-year-old rescue mule […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Soda Tax Ruling

So on Wednesday the state Supreme Court came down squarely on the side of the city’s tax on sugar-and-corn-syrup-filled, tooth-decay-and-diabetes-promoting beverages, ruling that the levy […]