Reading Terminal Market
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From time to time, I deviate from the usual format and write about a group of restaurants.
Recently, I discovered the Reading Terminal Market will be open Sundays during the run to Christmas. This is...
Day after dining
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Thanksgiving is this week. If you're like me, you have plans to catch part of the parade or maybe the American Kennel Club's National Dog Show on TV, watch a holiday movie like "Miracle...
Sword Play
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He's friendly and personable, so it's hard to imagine Ian Rose is the combative type. But he can skillfully wield a sword and point a gun. In the basement of his Pennsport home a...
Giving close to home
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Inside the Tasker Street Baptist Church last Thursday busy workers placed a bounty of goods into baskets. Their efforts provided residents like Ethel Churn with a warm meal and even warmer sentiments this Thanksgiving....
Keeping the legacy alive
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Sam Day rarely leaves his Southwest Philly home without his Triple Nickles paratrooper leather jacket. While waiting for a trolley one day, a young girl approached to take a closer look at its insignias...
Family devalued
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Every once in a while on TV or in the newspaper, someone will mention the worst movies of all time. Inevitably Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" will be near or at the...
Celebration of the century
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It is apparent Alfred Capaldi has taken an active role in his local church. Why else would he have served as an altar boy until age 21? Before pursuing this position at Epiphany...
Still MADD
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Two years ago, at 4 a.m., while Ramona Santiago and her life partner Carol Urban were driving back from the casino, a drunken driver slammed head-on into them on the Atlantic City Expressway. The...
A tale as old as time
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Walt Disney has metamorphosed "Beauty and the Beast" from a bedtime story known to every child into a megahit animated film - which is an even bigger hit on video/DVD - a soundtrack, a...
Pelican Fish
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Did you ever go out for a meal and the service was vastly superior to the food? I thought about this during a recent dinner at Pelican Fish, a three-month-old restaurant at 1305 Locust...
