Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Carolyn DeLaurentis nursed a tall boy of Rockstar as she prepared to confront a problem too big for an energy drink to solve. In her closing argument, she would have to convince a jury that 31-year-old…
Philly Mag cover: Whites must criticize blacks more Philly Mag cover about “white people have become afraid to say anything at all about race. Here’s what’s not being said.” No, it is not a parody. 82 comments email Philly Mag…
Philadelphia Magazine just published an article by Robert Huber titled “Being white in Philly: In a city that is largely poor and segregated white people have become afraid to say anything at all about race. Here’s what’s not being said.”…
Follow on Twitter @DanielDenvir Political operative John D. McDaniel‘s ongoing Philadelphia Board of Ethics saga has centered on Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown‘s troubling campaign finance practices and wasteful political patronage in the Nutter administration. McDaniel had been Brown’s campaign manager,…
As a sixth-grade student and the student-body president at Jay Cooke Elementary in Logan, Jenna Lee has a hard time not taking the proposed closing of her school personally. I was, like, where is this coming from? Because we just…
On Aug. 31, 2010, Fernando Echevarria was walking near the corner of York and Leithgow streets in North Philly when he saw Jose Vargas, a friend from the neighborhood, in the back of a police car. He stopped to check…
The new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News have, according to the newsroom union, threatened to liquidate their assets by this Friday if workers represented by the companys 11 unions refuse immediate concessions. When word went out on…
Follow on Twitter @DanielDenvir Paleoconservative conspiracist radio host Alex Jones has, well, captured the nation’s imagination after yelling at Piers Morgan that “1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!” Pennsylvania’s leading right-wing figure, state Rep. Daryl…
Follow on Twitter @DanielDenvir *correction/update below* People throughout West Philadelphia were devastated to watch Elena’s Soul Lounge, a reputedly century-old meeting place for drinks, music and food drawing people from both east and west of Cedar Park, burn to the…
Thin Tham, a 46-year-old refugee from Vietnam, pounds a glass tank to rouse his arapaima gigas from the deep. A specimen, one of the worlds largest freshwater fish, makes its way upward. Tham keeps two of these waterborne mammoths, native…
