(Third of five vids I’ll post this week in advance of Saturday’s fight between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. Courtesy of HBO and Hopkins’ PReople.)
Category: Philadelphia
The Executioner II
(Second of five vids I’ll post this week, time permitting. Courtesy of HBO and Bernard’s PReople.)
The Executioner
So, this week’s Metro column will be about Bernard Hopkins in light of his looming Saturday night brawl with Roy Jones Jr. Got a few videos to share as part of it, so I’ll post them throughout the week. (Along…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Dig Deeper Edition)
Excellent piece in the Sunday Inquirer about North vs. South (Jersey) dredging. And, wouldn’t you know it, seems as if the Kumbaya contingent is in the wrong. Compared with the levels of dioxins, mercury, and PCBs that lurked in the…
FlashBackward
I never really wanted to wade into this whole Philly flash-mob thing. But then Judge Kevin Dougherty earned my rarely awarded “he’s the fucking man” award for raining justice down upon lying punks’ heads, before two additional things happened that…
Tuesday Reading Roundup (And How Edition)
Clearly, I didn’t read the funnies on Sunday, as I was out in the Nevada desert. But I’m committed to the print cause, so me read ’em on Tuesday. Ergo, the temporary post-title change. Ta-da. And, thank Jebus I did,…
This Week’s Metro Column
Couldn’t find a link yet, again, so I’ll cut-and-paste the draft right here. In return, I insist you either send me $3 million, or hit metro.us even if just for a moment. Right thing to do, y’know? Gol! Gol! Gol!…
The column I would’ve written hadn’t I been in Vegas
I met Dolores Roberto while covering a recent hit-and-run-legislation hearing up in NE Philly for PW. Her story left me thinking I hadn’t been through anything comparable to: having a 12-year-old son (Peter Roberto Jr.) killed by a hit-and-run driver…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Bulletpoint Edition)
Oh, so that’s why erbody wanted to rally up and get a piece of the Iraqi-reconstruction sandpie. Kind of saw this one coming, didn’t’I?): Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new…
Dear Casino-Free Philadelphia…
Hey, hope you’re doing well. Listen, instead of sending out emails that include the sentence … The media is one of the framers of the public dialogue on the casino industry, and by working with it we can re-frame that…