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Not every story has two sides and the truth. The case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia physician charged with murdering babies for decades uninterrupted in a wide-open darkness of institutional failure, offers many lessons and no simple solutions. A year-long investigation that included interviewing 58 witnesses culminated in a 281-page grand jury...

Not every story has two sides and the truth. The case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia physician charged with murdering babies for decades uninterrupted in a wide-open darkness of institutional failure, offers many lessons and no simple solutions. A year-long investigation that included interviewing 58 witnesses culminated in a 281-page grand jury...

Given Thurston Moore’s dizzying productivity and the diversity of his creative output, adding “Sonic Youth” to his name as a descriptor is too restrictive. From launching Ecstatic Peace Library, a book publishing wing of his Ecstatic Peace record label, to co-writing No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 and contributing words to Grunge and Punk...

Nov. 12, 2010 Editor’s note: We knew when we scheduled this story that it was the type people would feel passionately about because they felt they already knew it. And far be it from me to tell them they don’t. But here’s what I do know: I spoke with several different people...

The crescendo of cheers and “Yes We Can” chants swells as President Obama takes the stage. People in the crowd maneuver to catch a glimpse and are hanging on his every word, nodding in agreement, cheering voraciously as he rips into Republicans. “I’m absolutely confident we will win [the midterm elections],” Obama...

The Lady in the Lake (1947): Forcing audiences to see through a character’s eyes, the point-of-view shot is a neat trick—and usually used sparingly. Before he settled on Citizen Kane, Orson Welles at one point wanted to make his first film all-POV. It’s clear how wise he was to abandon the idea in another actor’s...

Fran and Richard Rotonta have moved back into 739 Earp St.

Researchers suspect a cover-up in the Main Line deaths of 57 Irish railroad workers 178 years ago.

  D- “FAN SERVICE: A vaguely defined term primarily used for any gratuitous content included in some form of entertainment primarily to please a core group of fans.” —Wikipedia.org Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is Fan Service: The Movie, an insular, punishingly alienating experience preaching only to the faithful, devoted hearts of arrested 12-year-old...

The sixth annual emerging-artist show is extra loud this time around.