Cruel Spring

Opinion April 10, 2013 0 Comments

by Pete Mazzaccaro   April is the cruellest month, breeding, Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. – T.S. Elliot “The Waste Land” I’m not one to quote T.S. Elliot in the editorial section of a community weekly, but I’m feeling a certain kinship with the [...]
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Non-smokers will not be permitted – New race, ‘Bike for the Booze,’ not family-friendly

Opinion April 5, 2013 0 Comments

by Jim Harris  Congressman Bob Brady is bringing big-time bicycle racing back to our city. The Philly Cycling Classic will take place in Manayunk (the Indian name for “Where we go to drink?”) on June 2. The course will cover much of the same ground as the now-defunct Philadelphia International Cycling Championship (which ran out [...]
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Philip Roth has kindly stepped aside and offered you his place in line

Opinion April 3, 2013 0 Comments

by Hugh Gilmore Philip Roth, at 80, has announced his retirement from the literature scene, so there’s a big opening now for aspiring writers to jump through. Perhaps the gap would fit two or three new authors. Should now be the time for you, dear reader, to leap forward and stake your claim? I imagine [...]
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Thinking about the people in our past

Opinion April 3, 2013 0 Comments

by Pete Mazzaccaro When we talk about the past in Chestnut Hill, we often focus on its buildings. In recent weeks we’ve published photos from the archives of the Chestnut Hill Historical Society that depict street scenes from as far back as 100 years ago. It’s interesting to see how the character of the neighborhood [...]
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Living with a werewolf is a nightmare – What’s more expensive — legal drugs or illegal drugs?

Opinion March 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Mike Todd “Can’t you just wait two days?” the pharmacist asked. “So my baby should go off his medicine for two days because our insurance won’t cover us until Saturday?” I asked, feeling myself turning into Mr. Angry Customer Man. He paused for a moment to consider an answer. To help him arrive at [...]
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First Amendment may be suspended – Nutter: working class whites not politically correct

Opinion March 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Jim Harris On March 14, hundreds of jeering municipal union members armed with whistles drowned out Mayor Nutter’s annual budget address in City Council chambers. The session had to be adjourned, and the Mayor finished his speech elsewhere. The protesters carried placards depicting Nutter as Bozo the Clown, and outside a flatbed truck carrying [...]
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It was the best of times? It was the worst of times?

Opinion March 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Hugh Gilmore Do you get emails from old-classmates saying how everything was rosy back in our day and everything stinks now? I do, and I find them unbearably smug, defensive, and wrong-headed. Pardon my French, but why is that that the older people get, the less history they know? Fed up with the modern [...]
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