Life-or-death questions
Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden, performed by the Luna Theater Company, is concerned with the barbarity of human torture and its impact on those involved -- both victim and perpetrator. Its...
The Continental Mid-Town
In the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced a very long number called The Continental. I'm not sure restaurateur Stephen Starr had Fred and Ginger in mind...
Peace training
With neighborhood crime on the rise, one young activist is looking to increase the peace. "I want to heighten the awareness of peace," said John Suggs, a 22-year-old youth pastor who works out...
Airing dirty laundry
As a thick, black substance rose out of the drinking fountain, factory worker Dorothy Ellis knew something was terribly wrong. Yet it was only another episode in a disturbing series of events that...
Bountiful blessings
Rosh Hashanah -- the Jewish New Year -- begins at sundown Wednesday. Although the menu for our New Year dinner has settled in nicely through the years, I thought I would prepare a...
Lucky number
Friends, employees and fellow gamblers all crowded into a corner of the Turf Club on Tuesday, hoping to catch a few snippets of Carmine Martino's conversation. Martino, who has been a daily...
Dwindling days
The last weeks of summer are a happy-sad time, to paraphrase the great Tim Buckley, with carefree days dwindling to a precious few. The kids count the days until school starts, the lawnmower...
Jolly old England
There was a time, not terribly long ago, that any film adaptation of a respected English novel set before 1960 had a good chance of being a Merchant-Ivory production.
In the rare instances when this...
Back in the saddle?
There's bad news for stadium-area residents who thought the possibility of another high-traffic venue was behind them. The Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission will be in town Tuesday to discuss the revived...
Still no green light for cameras
Red-light cameras have been a popular idea in Philadelphia since before the state approved the devices nearly two years ago. Politicians fought for them, police endorse them and the parking authority maintains...
