Helping father know best
One day in the late 1990s, Everett Hurtt decided to attend a Focus on Fathers workshop at Hawthorne Cultural Arts Center to enhance his parenting skills. During the daylong event at 12th and...
Batman film takes the cape
To comic-book buffs, there is something special about that first issue, the one that explains the origins of their superhero of choice. They can usually tell you when it came out, who the...
Coming home
After a three-year hiatus spent on the booming Wilmington riverfront, the Delaware Art Museum is in a new home at its old address at 2301 Kentmere Parkway. The mega expansion and renovation adds...
Slaying puzzles police, family
Inside her home on the 2500 block of South Colorado Street, Julie Kerwood snuggles her daughter, Sienna, a 4-month-old with bright blue eyes and curly brown hair. The baby, wrapped in a pink...
Out of line?
Pulling up to his workplace last week, Ray Dormer noticed the new angle-parking spots on the westbound side of Oregon Avenue. Normally able to park with ease, the bartender at Cookie's Tavern, Alder...
Class farewell
It was an institution that produced the Golden Boys: Frankie Avalon, Fabian Forte and Bobby Rydell. And throughout the hallways and classrooms of George C. Thomas Middle School, Ninth and Johnston streets, thousands...
High water, low spirits
For Charlotte Masano, it was like a sequel to a bad movie. Last summer, the resident of the 1300 block of Wharton Street spent countless hours cleaning her basement after water spouted from...
I need wheels, not armor
Jim Motavalli is in Sweden this week, visiting Volvo and catching up on the latest environmentally sound global-warming technology. In his absence, he's asked his old friend and former columnist Ace Holleran to...
Can-do tomatoes
Every year around this time I wait and hunger for the first appearance of red, ripe Jersey and Lancaster County tomatoes. They usually show up in late June or early July, about the...
