Anndee Hochman

The 2015 Word of the Year, according to members of the American Dialect Society, is “they.” Don’t panic. “Go ...

What if a name has been etched for half a century on some institution of higher learning, despite all we have come to learn (and despair) ...

You learn a lot in four days on a criminal court jury. You learn that the ponytailed public defender uses a whiteboard and markers ...

This Halloween gave me shivers. I’m not talking about glycemic shock from snarfing too many Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. No, w ...

We knew the neighbors had become true friends when they came to help us say goodbye to the old refrigerator. Here’s the stor ...

The Halloween cards are out, which means Christmas lights are twitching on the horizon, which means a toy store near you will soon be jam ...

“Fun Home,” by Alison Bechdel — the bestsell ...

App-based delivery and service providers will furnish you with a stranger to run your errands ...

The lack of cursive writing instruction in the city’s schools prompted chagrin from several City Council members at a recent meetin ...

When my friend Ilene’s father was buried, in Putnam Valley, New York, on a gray August Thursday, I stood with another dear Philly p ...

Many schools have become places where standardized testing (and preparing for testing, and practicing for testing) eclipse inquiry and le ...

I want to ban the B-word. You know the one I mean; it rhymes with “itch,” and you can find it everywhere these days, a ...