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The Big Satin Heart

p>Anybody my age will tell you Valentine's Day wasn't as big a deal when we were growing up. People didn't buy expensive jewelry for their sweethearts -- maybe an inexpensive little charm from places...

Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama

27148072 It wasn't so much that Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama, it was the way she endorsed him. This was no perfunctory endorsement, the kind we hear all the time from politicians jockeying for a...

My bucket list

27147857 A bucket list is simply a list of things you want to do before you die or "kick the bucket." My bucket list is not as exciting as the one...

Hoping against hope

Hillary Clinton runs against the stereotype of women, ruled by their emotions instead of their brains. She is tougher than the other Democratic candidates on the war in Iraq. Refuses to apologize for...

Blues for Joel

This column is dedicated to the memory of Joel Dorn, a multiple Grammy Award-winning music producer, founder of Hyena Records, a friend to musicians and the one who taught me the most about...

Top news stories of 2008

1) Mike Huckabee gains back 100 pounds and is mistaken for Al Gore. The defeated Republican presidential candidate goes on an eating binge after he finds out Satan voted for him. It's...

With a bang

27147382 As the seconds ticked down to midnight, Philadelphians rang in the New Year the only way they know how: with 10,000 pounds of explosives illuminating the dark sky. Thousands filed towards Penn's Landing in...

Farewell 2007

The year is dying, going out like an old man who whispers words that may sound like gibberish but are actually the reflections of a life fading to black. Die quietly old...

Most important news story of 2007

"The news about the war and what's really going on over ." Stephanie Savatini, 12th and Tasker streets "Finding out how many lies have been told to us, finding out we're being spied on, and finding...

Judging Hillary

The thing about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, they say, is you are either for or against her. It is such an accepted truth of political life that everything written or said about...
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