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Arts & Entertainment

Review: The turmoil of ‘The Toughest Boy in Philadelphia’

The suffragettes of the early 20th century were looking for political emancipation, they weren’t looking for Betty Friedan and wome ...

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 Former Vice President Dick Cheney (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
National Interest

Dick Cheney’s endless Orwellian gall

What would it take at this point to muzzle Dick Cheney? Even the Walking Dead zombies quit when they’re blasted. Bu ...

12 years ago

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SPOTTED: Dilworth Park, Mormon towers, La Colombe, copper domes

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June 20: City budget, $30m more for schools | PATCO ridership drop | Buffered bike lane dreams | Pedestrian safety | Cunningham Piano

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 In Flashpoint Theatre's production of 'The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington,' from left: Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Steven Wright, Taysha Canales , and Jaylene Clark Owens surround Nancy Boykin as Martha Washington. (Image courtesy of Ian Paul Guzzone)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Miz Martha’ Washington’s dreamy dilemma

On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lad ...

12 years ago

 Overlooked by a statue of George Washington on a horse, protesters march up Ben Franklin Blvd., toward the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sunday, July 30, 2000, on the eve before the Republican National Convention. (William Wilson Lewis III/AP Photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Is Philly ready to get another national convention?

When I heard way back that Congressman Bob Brady was pushing for Philadelphia to make a bid to host the Democratic National Convention, I ...

12 years ago

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 Colin Quinn in his one-man show, 'Unconstitutional,' which he's performing at Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘Unconstitutional’ Colin Quinn brings a lot of Philadelphia to one-man show

After comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn decided he could make an entire show out of skewering the U.S. Constitution and our rel ...

12 years ago

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 This undated image obtained from Facebook shows Ahmed Abu Khattala, an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, who was captured by U.S. special forces on Sunday, June 15, 2014, on the outskirts of Benghazi. (AP Photo)
National Interest

Who could possibly oppose prosecuting the Benghazi suspect in court? Take a guess

Why are Republicans dissing the American justice system? That doesn’t seem very patriotic. Back when George W. Bush was pres ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Huey Elementary School gets pop-up improvements

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

June 19: Blatstein’s vision for Broad and Washington | Planning for Comcast tower | Open data frustrations | PHA and unions cut deal | Inside Beth Shalom Synagogue

12 years ago

National Interest

Not even a big Benghazi arrest can quell the conservative fervor

  Wouldn’t you think that the seizure of a prime Benghazi suspect, on orders from the commander-in-chief, would please ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Can Instagram help curb litter?

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Parking logic: Three reasons ZBA should say no to garage-fronted rowhouses

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

June 18: 22nd and Market memorial artwork | Suburban Station naming rights | Pitched school funding fight | Blackwell on University City HS sale | Clarke fundraiser

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Time to focus on PGW sale

Maybe we need guys in hazmat suits to figure out why, months after it was transmitted, Philadelphia City Council won’t introduce Ma ...

12 years ago

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