Listen, I’m not trying to say La Liga and the U9 Fairmount winter league have much in common besides the competition involved being soccer. But what I am trying to say is that a goal Louden scored on Saturday, February…
Hi, all. I wrote a lot of stories for PhillyVoice this month. Here are my 12 favorites. Check them out if you’re so inclined! Thanks, people who blessed me with great advice to ignore the Mummers Tooth-fairy customs from across…
A lot of people hate Wing Bowl like I hate Diner en Blanc. That’s fine. It’s not exactly a morally upstanding event. But when work asked me if I was interested in covering Wing Bowl 25, I consented. Found myself…
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…
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…
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…
