1) Yeah, but can he do blow like Whitney can? 2) And, WWBBDTALLYC? Answer key: 1. Probably not. 2. What would Bobby Brown do to always love Lin Yu Chun? Anything to ensure he’s not the start of a new…
This Week’s Metro Column (and Philadelphia Weekly article)
With the new baseball season upon us, I didn’t head down to D.C. to see Halladay start his championship run. Oh no. I headed back to Strawberry Mansion, where the moral of the story is this: The baseball league that…
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Nutley?
Don’t ever let it be said that I’m not a patron of the arts. Exhibit No. 1, a painting I had done of college friend Eleuterio whilst in Montreal in the summer of ’08. I feel as if the artist…
Judge Toler hits Nightline! (While East Coast watches hoops)
I feel as if I let you all down. I should’ve turned off the national championship game late in the second half and gone over to Nightline which — as I’ve been expecting for a while — Divorce Court got…
Hit-and-Run America Vol. XXXVI
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…
McNabb, Halladay … and Hopkins
Yeah, yeah, I know the sporting-news world ain’t really focused on what was apparently an average fight from Saturday night, but this just in from Bernard Hopkins’ camp, anyway: He’s out of the hospital and there’s no evident damage. Good…
It’s Always Smokey in Philadelphia
McNabb, McShnabb. You wanna know what I learned already today? That a gram equals roughly 0.035 ounces, which means 30 grams is about 1.05 ounces. You wanna know what else I learned already today? That Philly’s DA Seth Williams is…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Petty Gossip Edition)
Y’know, I’m totally down with the Vatican today. Who else would have the balls to deem a worldwide outbreak of priests-diddlin-young-children-itis as merely “petty gossip”? I mean, sweet Christ, 200 deaf kids getting molested really is a Perez Hilton item,…
Hit-and-Run America Vol. XXXV
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…