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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Spotted: The Porch gets its swings

10 years ago

 The ensemble of 'Alias Ellis Mackenzie,' one of the shows curated by FringeArts in this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival. (Photo courtesy of Melibea Garavito)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

It’s Fringe Festival time — and here’s the theater I want to see (among the 140-odd productions)

A fellow named Brian Feldman will come to your kitchen, wash your dishes — and then recite any monologue of your choosing in a one- ...

10 years ago

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 Screengrab from video by gunman Vester Lee Flanagan (AP)
National Interest

Gun murder capital of the western world, rinse and repeat

  I almost wish that Twitter and Facebook hadn’t scrubbed Vester Lee Flanagan’s snuff video. Maybe it should be r ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is shown speaking on Tuesday in Colorado. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
National Interest

Jeb gives Asian Americans another reason to spurn the GOP

The Yiddish language has the perfect slang word to describe Jeb Bush. He is a schlemeil ...

10 years ago

 Philadelphia  Councilman David Oh has been fined $2,000 for planning and executing an end-run around the city's campaign contribution limits. (NewsWorks file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Doh! Councilman hit with fine for violating contribution rules

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics has fined City Councilman David Oh $2,000 for planning and executing an end-run around the city’s ...

10 years ago

 Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Association for a Better New York last month.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
National Interest

Will Joe Biden “feel the tingle?”

  The ...

10 years ago

 Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane rushes through a media gauntlet on her way to court in Norristown, where she was ordered to stand trial on charges of leaking grand jury material. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kane will stand trial in grand jury leak [updated]

There’s nothing about the case of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane that doesn’t feel weird in one way or another, ...

10 years ago

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 Ben Michael (left) and Alex Bechtel as two princes in Theatre Horizon's production of 'Into the Woods,' nominated for a dozen Barrymore Awards -- the most for a production staged this past season.
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

This year’s Barrymore Award nominees cover a wide spectrum of Philadelphia-area theater

This is the year that the region’s smaller professional theaters, plus those in the suburbs, sit at the front of the table: Nominee ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Mobile, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
National Interest

Probing the minds of the Trumpitistas

If you’re struggling to fathom why so many supposedly sane fellow Americans are besotted with Donald Trump, his Friday night rally ...

10 years ago

 Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Philly schools could be broke by mid-October without state money

When I was a child, the start of the school year was a time of giddy anticipation. It was a time of new clothes, new books, new friends, ...

10 years ago

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 Scott Leader (left) and Steve Leader (right) (Image via Suffolk County District Attorney's Office/Boston Globe)
National Interest

Trump’s hate rhetoric has consequences

This was bound to happen: According to police in Boston, two white guys beat the crap out of a homeless Mexican. They also smacked ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (left), and Tenor Ben Heppner dressed as Captain Ahab (Charlie Neibergall and LM Otero/AP Photo; (<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-132899105/stock-photo-white-beluga-whale-in-aquarium-with-wide-open-mouth.html?src=OuHee6GU-Ujef_BTdSHvOg-1-4”>; Insert of white whale </a> via ShutterStock)
National Interest

Obamacare is still the GOP’s great white whale

Some of us remember Moby Dick. In Melville’s classic novel, monomaniacal Captain Ahab was so obsessed with killing th ...

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Salvation for a neighborhood icon in Manayunk

10 years ago

 The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed — Off with her head! Off... (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland original vintage engraving) (<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-75202597/stock-vector-the-queen-turned-crimson-with-fury-and-after-glaring-at-her-for-a-moment-like-a-wild-beast.html?src=dt_last_search-3”>Photo</a> via ShutterStock)

National Interest

Planned Parenthood and the Queen of Hearts

Everyone has a beef about “the media,” and here’s mine: We typically highlight accusations of wrongdoing, but we typica ...

10 years ago

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
National Interest

Trump’s clown car express: Ending birthright citizenship

Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled immigration plan is predictably ridiculous – shock jockette Ann Coulter calls it “the gre ...

10 years ago

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