Opinion & Essay
Review: That ‘Stupid F#*@ing Bird’ is surely a Seagull
Oh, the pain of it! And the angst. But, hey … what about the fun? The fun is not what you expect from Anton Chekhov’s “ ...
10 years ago
ListenChasing family history and the tail end of summer on Little Egg Harbor Bay
I turned 50 this year. Feeling so young, I towed my sailboat to the Jersey Shore for the family vacation. It’s a Hobie Cat, ostensi ...
10 years ago
Congress is back (eye roll) and the right-wingers are witch-hunting (natch)
Congress is back in town, and I trust you’re as thrilled as I am. The lawmakers plan to run out the clock until Election Day, to ad ...
10 years ago
Crooked Don’s slush fund and the ’16 double standard
Imagine the outcry if Hillary Clinton was outed for taking more than a quarter of a million dollars in other people’s money and spe ...
10 years ago
Remembering a coach and a gentleman as another year of high school sports begins
At the time, we boys thought camp was all about football. We had that wrong. Years later, we came to understand that Coach Steve Padjen h ...
10 years ago
Yo, Christie! The bridge tolls for thee
Imagine the outcry if Hillary Clinton’s transition team was led by a scandal-plagued sleaze whose gubernatorial reign was best know ...
10 years ago
Clinton courts youth vote at Temple
Political pros will tell you that any campaign’s most valuable asset is the candidate’s time, so it should be spent wisely. ...
10 years ago
ListenA Trump business bombshell, buried in the media muck pile
Early last Wednesday morning, on the Newsweek website, a seasoned investigative journalist posted a bombshell expose of Donald Trump̵ ...
10 years ago
Iverson is the Basketball Hall of Famer that Philadelphia and the Sixers deserve
When the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced in April that Allen Iverson would be inducted in the class of 2016, I knew that I had to be there to see it.
10 years ago
Avoid the seafood at the buffet, or risk an explosive prom like mine
I remembered all the things I had on under my dress. I had all of the shape-wear on. All of it. I left the restroom and said to my brother, "We have to go now."
10 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘The Elementary Spacetime Show,’ ‘Switched!’ and ‘The Chairs’
The Elementary Spacetime Show We sit facing a broken, hopeless teenager. “This is a list of all the way ...
10 years ago
ListenThe birther and his basket of lies
Isn’t it awesome to have the real Trump back in action? Teleprompter Trump, reticent Trump, conciliatory Trump, modulated Tr ...
10 years ago
Being transgender ‘doesn’t make me any less or any more. It makes me me.’
The East Penn I will always remember is the East Penn that has supported me from first grade until now, regardless of the fact that I am transgender.
10 years ago
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