This Christmas, Senate President pro tempore Kim Ward delivered a special holiday ballad for the assembled guests at the PA […]
Christine Flowers: In Britain, Boxing Day keeps holiday spirit alive
Growing up in the U.S., Dec. 26 is a letdown, unless it’s your birthday, in which case celebrate! In fact, […]
Paul Davis: Give up the food, and other South Philly stories
Perhaps only in South Philly. Late one evening last month, a delivery driver for a South Philly pizza shop was […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Paul Davis: It’s Christmas time in the city — my interview with Santa
The weekend of the 13th was a bad time for Philadelphia, as dozens of victims were shot in several criminal […]