Neighbors a ‘rec’ over cuts
Claude Porter is hoping to start a job this summer at Chew Playground and Pool. It would be a very special job for the 14-year-old from the 1500 block of South...
A community pays respect
In a neighborhood bombarded with negativity, the positives stand out just a little bit more. That's why Malcolm Crump Jr. made such an impression on his Point Breeze neighbors. Despite...
The incredible Impala
When I was a kid, my highest aspiration in life was to own a Chevy Impala SS. A 1960 two-tone red and white convertible would have been nice, with a throbbing V-8...
Getting ‘Errors’ right
Any theater attempting to do Shakespeare has its work cut out for it. The Bard's language is foreign-sounding to the modern ear, and it takes real skill to deliver the lines in...
Las Cazuelas
Las Cazuelas
627 S. Second St.
215-873-0250
Credit cards accepted
One step up into the restaurant
With Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May, fast approaching, I thought it appropriate to review a...
Counting on next time
More than a half-hour after it became clear that state Sen. Vince Fumo had won reelection, his opponent reflected on the good, the bad and the ugly of the primary. The campaign,...
Divorce courting
The Laws of Attraction
PG-13
Starting tomorrow at area theaters
Two reels out of four
The French have an expression that's so, well, French. It's je ne sais quoi and it...
Primary color
If it wasn't an election, it could have been a Village People concert. On the streets of South Philly on Tuesday, doctors in white coats and blue or green scrubs gave out...
Colonial cooking
On a cool April morning 10 years ago, I climbed a long flight of steps, entered a vast hallway and discovered a young woman on a high stepladder. She was wearing a...
Story of your life
In what she's dubbed the editing suite of her Seventh and Annin home, Deborah Arnold brings old photographs, outdated film and oral history to life. The 31-year-old's life's work is to...