Ever since I saw the “Freedom Kids” performance at a Donald Trump rally last month, it was incumbent upon me to involve them in a tiebreaker at Murphy’s Saloonery Quizzo. The lyrics, I printed up. The song, I uploaded to…
Yeah, there is. It’s called “Saturday Morning Fever.” And I’ve been writing about it over at my PhillyVoice day job. You should catch up on the missives; the show — which airs Wednesdays at 11 p.m. on Fuse — has…
Last February, the Icehouse at 52nd and Locust sts. in West Philly was all the unusual-tourism rage, so we had to stop by and check it out. This February, a six-alarm blaze at an auto shop in Frankford offered a…
You may have heard that it’s going to snow on the Eastern Seaboard starting this evening and into tomorrow. This would be shocking if it didn’t snow ’round these parts just about every winter since the dawn of man. But…
I’m not in the habit of linking out to listicles on this here site, but the one that BuzzFeed compiled of the “Best Irish Bar in Every State” is an outlier. Why’s that, you ask? Because the Saloonery is in…
Professionally speaking, my first week of 2016 has been consumed by the Mummers. Namely, the outcry over insensitive moments in the annual festivities and the aftermath. Here are links to the three stories I’ve written for PhillyVoice. Left out was…
Welcome back to an annual look at how Mummers comics and wench brigades brought shame unto the segment of a region’s population that doesn’t hide behind the use of unintelligent “satire” to mask its ignorance. This year saw one Mummers…
Yeah, this strikes me as a bit too promotional and whatnot, but I had some time to sift back through stories I’ve written on PhillyVoice, NewsWorks and my own site today. Figured I’d put together a quick handy list in…
The Imhotep Panthers, football team from a smallish charter school located in East Germantown (Philadelphia) won the PIAA 3A state championship on Friday night. It was the first time a Public League team from Philly won it all, making it…
Sure, I left NewsWorks for PhillyVoice more than two months ago, but my last ‘HYY byline arrived yesterday. It was part of a series that Dave Gambacorta from the Daily News and I had been working on regarding stories about…