‘Tis the season when parents pack their kids into the car, drive to the mall and deposit their offspring on the laps of mall Santas all around this great nation, which means it’s the right time for another of our favorite holiday traditions: seeing our readers’ photos of kids reacting hilariously to the bearded stranger … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday because I don’t have to worry about it. I find it to be the only holiday where I don’t feel lonely, heartbroken, or alienated. It’s the only time I can wear a mask that is funny or obvious, and not an emotional one I put up for most holidays. You … Read more
It happens every year around this time. The sun shines brighter, the days grow longer, and everywhere you look there’s bunnies made of chocolate. And marshmallow. And peanut butter. And jelly beans, oh my god, how could I forget the jelly beans?! It’s the season when you can’t enter a CVS without leaving with an … Read more
We’ve come a long way from John Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you” and Abe Lincoln’s “four score and seven years ago.” Many of the current candidates for president of the United States have significantly dumbed down their oratory to appeal to voters, according to a new study (pdf) from the … Read more
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, wife of 40th President Ronald Reagan, has passed away at 94 from congestive heart failure. Like her husband, Reagan got her start in acting, appearing in films throughout the 1940s and 50s. In 1952 she married Ronald Reagan, who at the time was the president of the Screen Actors Guild. The two remained together … Read more
According to multiple reports, LeSean McCoy was involved in the brutal beatdown of two off-duty police officers at a nightclub in Philadelphia on Sunday. McCoy and several other men reportedly attacked the cops during an alleged dispute over a bottle of champagne. But despite the reports, McCoy has not yet been charged with any crime. … Read more
Today is the day. You’re winning Powerball! After all, you bought three tickets! Once you get that cash, know that things can go sideways in a hurry. Be careful. Start by paying off your school loans, your mortgage, and your ’98 Jetta. Then, when pragmatism has had its day, it’s time to… Here are some of … Read more
The original Rocky was about an underdog, written by an underdog (a pre-fame Sylvester Stallone had a little over $100 in the bank and a pregnant wife at the time), and became an unlikely Best Picture winner in 1977. Above that, an underdog city was its calculated setting. Despite its ties to the United States’ … Read more
Philadelphia has a couple of gifts for visiting Pope Francis — an ivory-bone china bowl featuring images of Independence Hall and St. Peter’s Basilica, and a bicycle with a chain guard shaped like an angel’s wing. Mayor Michael Nutter presented the gifts to Archbishop Charles Chaput (SHAP’-yoo) at the opening ceremony Tuesday for the World … Read more
Like anyone who lives in southern New Jersey, I consider myself a Philadelphian, and as a Philadelphian I am still licking my wounds from this past week. It was a long week, one in which the Phillies traded away Cole Hamels, and Bill Cosby was rightfully shunned into oblivion. But the greatest defeat of them … Read more