
Opinion & Essay
Dead Man Walker and his urgent plea to the GOP
Nine weeks ago, when alleged conservative wunderkind Scott Walker was riding high, I rightly dismissed him as “a clueless newbie un ...
10 years ago
The day Catholics were ordered out of the movies — and more
Watch “Urban Trinity,” the new feature-length documentary about Catholic Philadelphia, and you’ll probably be surprised ...
10 years ago
ListenPa. Supreme Court court suspends Kane’s law license
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has suspended the law license of embattled state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, but the move apparently w ...
10 years ago
ListenRepublicans denounce the ‘Obama is a Muslim’ rumor? Gimme a break
At last count, five Republican candidates have taken the high road to rebuke Donald Trump. They think it’s just awful that Trump fa ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘High Society,’ high times
They don’t make musicals like they used to – but then, Cole Porter is no longer around. In fact, he wasn’t around in 1998 e ...
10 years ago
ListenTrump, Fiorina, and the epidemic of ignorance
There is, alas, a subspecies of citizen that can best be called boobus Americanus. ...
10 years ago
Philly DA’s spokesman to pay fine for ethical lapse
The Philadelphia Board of Ethics has fined the spokesman for District Attorney Seth Williams $600 for engaging in banned political activi ...
10 years ago
Debate II: The Republican clown car belched a lot of smoke
As the Republican presidential debate crept toward its cac ...
10 years ago
Ahmed Mohamed ordeal shows Muslim is the new black
I was angry when I read the story of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, an Irving Tx., teen who was arrested at school after police said a clock ...
10 years ago
Did you miss our Speak Easy forum? Read our guests’ essays here
With so much attention on the issue of same-sex marriage — and the continuing focus on Kim Davis — there are countless issues and per ...
10 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘Alias Ellis Mackenzie’ and ‘It’s So Learning’
Alias Ellis Mackenzie The theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, whose group Lucidity Suitcase International has given the Fringe man ...
10 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘Alias Ellis Mackenzie’ and ‘It’s So Learning’
Alias Ellis Mackenzie The theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, whose group Lucidity Suitcase International has given the Fringe man ...
10 years ago
Presidential debate drinking game: ‘Ronald Reagan’
Few Republican rituals are more hilariously fact-impaired than the rote paeans to Ronald Reagan. Any bets how many we’ll hear durin ...
10 years ago
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