As a journalist, and social critic, my role is to observe, analyze, evaluate, and criticize. When I got my first…
One Liberty Place is beautiful — and I was wrong. It was shortly after I moved here in 1966 that…
This is a story about a plumber, no wise cracks. (Pardon the pun.) While most of us just stared dumbly at…
When you think of America’s “most glamorous cities,” Philadelphia might not be in the top 5 — but are we…
I hope this doesn’t come across as defensive or grumpy (God forbid), but isn’t there something wrong with Valentine’s Day?…
Some years ago, in my role as a Daily News entertainment/gossip columnist, I would join the movie critics of my…
Using blackface is a sin, in a secular sense, but should it be a crime? City Councilwoman Cindy Bass thinks…
Yeah, I watched the Golden Globes, which are more “honest” in the fandom of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than…
(A portion of this story has been retracted. See later post.) Audiences were sparse at Wednesday’s Mummers Parade — the…
Let’s start here: I am no fan of segmenting — or segregating — people by generational cohort, meaning slicing and…