Opinion & Essay
Critic’s Notebook: Gender-swapped Romeo provocative, but is it effective theater?
Reports that the small and feisty Curio Theatre Company in West Philadelphia has been getting hate mail — even a death threat — aimed ...
13 years ago
The plane truth about wasted taxpayer money
Oh man, what a mess: A botched design, squabbling contractors, lousy administration oversight, computer glitches and delays, taxpayer mon ...
13 years ago
Wrong about sex, from J.D. Salinger to Miley Cyrus
When Miley Cyrus, after asserting that everybody’s sex life comes to a screeching halt at age 40, told Matt Lauer that, age 55 ...
13 years ago
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When a man overreaches, a woman does not need to take it on the chin
A recent visit to a Delco car dealer turned into a game of cat and mouse when the salesman kept trying to put his paws on me. Just anothe ...
13 years ago
Nutter lets me have it … but will he back it up?
I’m used to getting an earful from politicians from time to time about something I’ve reported or not reported, or should hav ...
13 years ago
Why Neshaminy student newspaper won’t publish the ‘R-word’
The “Redskin,” Neshaminy’s long-time moniker, has come under fire time and time again from community members for i ...
13 years ago
School mascot a point of pride for Neshaminy High School
The conflict questions the very foundations of Neshaminy pride — the district’s mascot, the Redskin. It has been one of the funda ...
13 years ago
The fainting conspiracy: Paranoids unite!
Let’s revisit Richard Hofstadter, the noted historian who, half a century ago, ...
13 years ago
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Fragility, power, and suffocating a goldfish with breakfast cereal
I killed my first pet. It was a goldfish, an orange flicker in a plastic baggie that I carried carefully home from the Lankenau Fair. The ...
13 years ago
Will Democrats take back the House in 2014?
The buzz du jour decrees that the GOP, by dint of its wanton behavior, will cough up control of the U. S. House in ...
13 years ago