news

November Strain: politics Things had already gone awry by the time I arrived at the John Welsh School, at Fourth and York streets in North Philadelphia, to serve as a volunteer poll-watcher for the government watchdog Committee of Seventy.

Political Notebook | The Bell Curve | Philly Blunt | more news...

opinion

Editor's Letter by Duane Swierczynski
Hollowpoint After the events of the past week, all I can think about is, How am I going to explain the guns?

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arts

Theater Reviews

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naked city

Pirate Radio: The demented minds behind podcast Channel Chaos want to thrust their antics into the light.

Paper Trail Our Back Pages, One Year At A Time

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movies

Divided Loyalties: A wedding in the Golan Heights exposes political and familial fissures.

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music

Homeschooled: McCoy Tyner on the Philly sound he can't define or forget.

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food

Don't Forget Paris: The behind-the-scenes man of the restaurant scene finally comes into his own.

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sex

Paper Doll: The Sound of One Hand Slapping There's this hot scene in psychodrama Secretary where dictatorial boss James Spader tells his mentally ill secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal) to put her elbows on his desk and bend over.