To hear Grant Hatherley tell it, he asked a stranger he was sharing a coffee with at the McDonald’s on Aramingo Avenue near Castor (which is in Port Richmond, where folks in Kensington advised him to head) to keep an…
Happy New Year’s Eve, y’all. At this time of reflection and looking forward, I scrolled back through the stores I wrote for PhillyVoice this year and decided to share the ones I really liked a lot. If you haven’t seen…
Have you been keeping up with my ‘Ask Hickey’ advice column? Yes? Good, I appreciate that very much. No? Well, here’s a link that will take you to the (as of this writing) 15 previous entries. We’ve covered everything from…
On Monday, I noticed a Facebook post from author Sara Gruen about how she’d sunk some $23K into buying a bunch of Hatchimals, aka the year’s hot-ticket Christmas gift for kids. It struck me as interesting on account of the…
I know we’re all sick of elections and popularity contests and the like. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t share the fact that I’m nominated for the Best Commentary of 2016 Award through the Pen & Pencil Club in…
I’ve known Terry Oleson for nearly a decade. I don’t think he’s a serial killer. But, whispered accusations to the contrary have made his life a living hell. So, I watched a new A&E series about serial killers with him…
An interesting thing happened when I was wrapping up Quizzo night at Murphy’s last Tuesday. Namely, someone was sitting at the bar talking about how he had to rush home earlier that day because a pack of brawling kids was…
From my PhillyVoice story: When it came time for the bail-reduction conversation, the suspect’s sister Jacqueline Toro vouched for Rodriguez as “a wonderful person” whose been missed by nieces and nephews while incarcerated. He lashed out after someone “made a…
“Whenever somebody dies, people say that they were the greatest person ever, but Tom truly was that,” Porter Callanan said. “He was the nicest, funniest, smartest dude you’ll ever meet.” [PhillyVoice]
It was with great joy that I wrote a column about jitbag sportstalk-radio host Josh Innes, who got canned by WIP in Philly for being, well, a jitbag. I was particularly happy about Joshy boy hitting the unemployment line because,…
