Opinion & Essay

Carrie Fisher’s death at 60 came as a shock. Known as Princess (and later, General) Leia to generations of Star Wars fans, sh ...

As we move into a New Year, the triumphs and failures of 2016 loom large in our memories. We survived an election that laid ...

Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz will have a challenger in this spring’s Democratic party, a veteran city finance execut ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has by most accounts had a successful first year in office. But one renowned former mayor thinks hizzoner c ...

Let’s start with the FBI’s chilling ...

My friend Maria and I were going out to dinner. Although we usually ate at an Indian restaurant near my house, she’d asked a few da ...

“Heroin has destroyed my life, and I don’t even use the stuff.” When I heard my mom’s friend say that, my ...

It was sadly surreal last night to leave a Los Angeles screening of “La La Land” — a rhapsodic dreamscape about the dance o ...

After meeting Lolly, I suddenly understood that I had a third grandmother — still a sparkplug — someone I may have never really known ...

If you’re good at rolling dice or playing the numbers, you might have the key ingredient to becoming a Philadelphia judge: luck. Th ...

To set the stage for Mary the rebel Rockette, I first need to quote what I wrote here ...

Let’s get a few things straight from the start. ...

It’s not the New Year’s resolutions that preoccupy me this time of year. I make resolutions daily. The true measure of the  ...

You never hear the term “black liar” anymore. I think it died in the 19th century, which is a shame, because it’d be a kick to ...