
Opinion & Essay
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
ListenGun 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
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
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
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
ListenThis 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
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
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
ListenTrump’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
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
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
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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