Archive

“Who cares if it’s true?” says Pierce Brosnan’s deliriously unscrupulous secret agent during the ornate repartee that flows through John Boorman’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s The Tailor of Panama. A raunchy farce of small deceptions, Boorman’s film takes a sledgehammer to the spy genre, riffing on meatier questions of truth, identity and...

It is precisely 9:36 p.m. in West Philadelphia on the second splendidly summery September night of 1964, and exactly six minutes ago everything suddenly changed. For teenage Philadelphia, the calendar just flipped, along with everyone’s wig, to a new era. It will be years before anyone fully understands all the far-reaching implications,...

Do you listen to Ted Nugent? You shouldn’t. Doing so will make you gay.   Yes, that Ted Nugent. The wild-game-hunting, bow-and-arrow- shooting, notorious womanizer who wrote a song, “Cat Scratch Fever,” which many surmise is about Nugent’s own struggles with an addiction to, um, petting felines. (Sample lyric: “I make the pussy purr...

Taking the taste out of your mouth To the Editor, Regarding the Trump Administration’s decision to ban vape flavorings: The percentage of 12th graders who vape skyrocketed from 28 percent in 2017 to around 37 percent within the last year, and recent reports of severe lung illnesses have been linked to the...

Where Cecil B. Moore intersects the Germantown Avenue arterial in North Philadelphia, there’s a plot of land that will sit untouched by developers.

Desmond Hasty won’t admit it, but every day inside his computer science classroom at Boys’ Latin is a struggle. Each day, Hasty stands in front of each child, no less than 15 per class, and tries to teach them one part of a STEM education that could prepare them for the rest...

Reverend Naomi Washington-Leapheart of Chestnut Hill is a part of a growing movement of inclusive and sex-positive Christian clergy. Raised “in a Baptist church on the west side of Detroit,” Rev. Washington-Leapheart completed seminary in 2016 and is now an ordained minister, affiliated with the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries. “I believe that...

In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the national March for Our Lives demonstration, 60 plus people took to Love Park midday on March 24.

Leonidas Tsiaras is an example of how medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder can turn around someone’s life.