Battle of bills
Like legislative ping pong balls, the budget and tax-cut bills that City Council narrowly passed on Monday continue to bounce between the mayor and Council members. The members cut their Memorial...
From the beginning
Some old friends are back in town and, by old, how does 4,500 years strike you? The friends are items from the permanent collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology...
Cinematic wizardry
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
PG
Starting tomorrow at area theaters
Three reels out of four
One of the main jabs at Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was that...
The great Phaeton
The Volkswagen Beetle, introduced in the U.S. in 1949, didn't even come with a gas gauge. The company, which had just been handed back to German ownership by U.S. occupation troops, was...
Kebob meals
Memorial Day is the traditional kickoff of the cookout season. Although many people grill all year long, I don't usually fire up my old Weber kettle until the last weekend in May....
Cover-to-cover girls
Once upon a time, there were two friends. In a land not too far away called Queen Village, Maria and Theresa remained close through many years of changes, children, grandchildren, success and...
Slots for state dollars
Local residents hoping to hit the slot-machine jackpot currently have two choices: Drive to Atlantic City or West Virginia. On any given night, almost half of the license tags in parking lots...
Veterans still serving at home
If you are having a barbecue or picnic to commemorate Memorial Day, you might be missing the point, according to a leader of one local veterans post. "Many people think that...
As two become one
With just weeks to go before they close their doors for the last time as separate, single-sex schools, students, teachers and administrators at St. John Neumann and St. Maria Goretti high schools...
