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  • JOHN DEBELLA IS NOT AN ASSHOLE ANYMORE.

    PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSICA GRYPHON � John DeBella has been a hippie and a punk. A winner and a loser. A hero and a villain. And now he just wants to be a nice guy. As if to prove it, he…

  • Return to the House of Horrors

    Fifteen years after the most ghastly crime in the city's history, a survivor breaks her silence about Gary Heidnik.

  • Unscripted: Selma Blair

        Everybody has a story, including Selma Blair, who follows up her turn as a buttoned-down Harvard preppie in Legally Blonde with a very different take on college life. In Todd Solondz’s Storytelling, the 29-year-old Michigan native plays a pink-haired coed who…

  • Unscripted: Selma Blair

      Everybody has a story, including Selma Blair, who follows up her turn as a buttoned-down Harvard preppie in Legally Blonde with a very different take on college life. In Todd Solondz’s Storytelling, the 29-year-old Michigan native plays a pink-haired coed who gets a…

  • Once a Bird Brain…, part 2

    Former Eagles mascot Dean Schoenewald is still crazy after all these years. part 1 | part 2 As kids attendance during Shark weeknight games soared, trouble lurked in the Shark den. “You gotta imagine that it irked some people,” recalls…

  • Novel Security Measures

    A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying. Everyone knows it is a bad idea to try and board a plane carrying a box cutter, a flight manual written in Arabic, or…

  • Various Artists

    Various Artists Listen to What the Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney Oglio Coming Up: Independent Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney Oglio While these two tributes to Sir Paul are…

  • Yeomen of the Guard

    The Savoy Company celebrates 100 years of taking on Gilbert and Sullivan. There’s a story some members of Philadelphia’s Savoy Company like to tell, more often somberly than with a smirk. Up until 10 years ago, in an almost bacchanalian…

  • So Sorry

    Apparently a simple apology was too high a price to pay. There’s an odd little comment at the end of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.’s (PNI) statement, released last Friday, about the multi-million-dollar settlement of the libel suit brought by former Inquirer…

  • Meet the Parents

    Though Robert DeNiro’s is the biggest name associated with Meet the Parents, the smartest thing the film’s creators did was snare Ben Stiller to play opposite him. As Greg Focker, the anxious boyfriend who’s scheduled to meet his girlfriend’s parents for the…