To be Philadelphian affords you access to the legacy of living in a city that holds within its limits some […]
Paul Davis: The crime before Christmas — my interview with Santa Claus
As a newspaper crime reporter and columnist, I was compelled to look into a report of a burglary of an […]
Thom Nickels: Too many cars
I’ve kept a valid driver’s license for years even though the last car I owned was in 1980. That car, […]
John Rossi: Christmas cards came by trolley in 1950s Philadelphia
During my junior and senior years in high school I had a part time job delivering mail at Christmas. Back […]
Guy Ciarrocchi: This Christmas, prepare the way
“Prepare the way of the Lord!” Seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet Isaiah wrote […]
Thom Nickels: The changing face of Jesus
In August 2011, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louvre, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, organized the Rembrandt and […]
Thom Nickels: What kind of tree? The city won’t say.
Shame on the City of Philadelphia! As the Washington Examiner noted: “It’s December again in the United States, and that […]
Christine Flowers: A lefty podcaster’s grotesque attack on Erika Kirk
I have never been married, which means that I have never been widowed. I have, however, been around widows all […]
John Rossi: The boys of Fifth Street
Between 1950 and 1954, from the age of 14 to 17, along with a handful of my friends, my second […]