The shoe fits
A Cinderella Story boasts the kind of pop-music-enhanced quick edits that seem required in anything aimed at teenagers these days. But embedded somewhere amid the cacophony is a fairly nice story, loosely inspired...
Summer of fear
A lifelong South Philly resident, Harriett Brown has seen her share of violence and has attended more funerals than she cares to count. This month alone in her Grays Ferry neighborhood, a...
French bliss
Wednesday is Bastille Day, the 215th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution. Bastille Day is a national holiday in France and, for a number of years, Philadelphia restaurants have celebrated this...
Vital Contributions
When Gloria Donnelly was growing up on the 2200 block of Latona Street, her Aunt Ann lived with the family for about a year. Just 3 years old at the time, Donnelly was...
Ten Stone Bar & Restaurant
The neighborhood around Graduate Hospital began to come alive about 20 years ago. Townhomes were built on the 2000 block of South Street and Linoleum -- one of my favorite restaurants -- opened, closed...
Taking a gamble
South Philly residents who take bus trips to Atlantic City or drive to Delaware just to play those one-armed bandits soon might not have to travel far at all. At Philadelphia Park in...
One city crisis down …
Mayor John Street met the City Charter's deadline and signed off on a five-year, $3.4-billion budget last Thursday, avoiding a citywide fiscal meltdown. He also dealt a devastating blow to the tax-reform movement,...
Fanning flames
Two South Philly fire companies originally scheduled to close July 1 will remain open at least another few days. At a Common Pleas Court hearing Tuesday, Judge Matthew Carrafiello extended the temporary restraining...
Unspoken grief
A few feet from the stoop of Malik Upchurch's house on the 1300 block of South 27th Street stands one of his school friends. At the peak of the hot, humid afternoon,...
There’s that newsman
Will Ferrell is kind of a gentile nouveau Andy Kaufman. Although Ferrell is already more successful than Kaufman ever was during his lifetime, the two share a distinct quality: a total lack of...
