A Rubber Door

Last night in Philadelphia, Michael Nutter won the mayoral democratic primary. In Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 4-1, that means he’ll be the next Mayor.  Michael Nutter isn’t the coolest candidate to grace the stage.  His speeches aren’t happenings like Barak Obama’s are.  But he’s level-headed, smart, and has a record of doing the right [...]

I wrote about this recently and the Inquirer has followed my lead. The following article was in the Sunday paper about a week ago.

Rock Philly, then lose your guitar

Today I was looking up a band called La Rocca - in Google I noticed a story about their gear being stolen here in Philadelphia. It sounded familiar - but too recent for me to have known about it, so I did a little digging. By my count, since January, eight bands having [...]

11:25
An hour of liveblogging and I’m ending with Dennis Hastert conceding the Speaker of the House. We’re losing a lot of neck beards. I may have spoken too soon on Virginia.
Good night.

My parents are not from here - they were born in Jamaica and moved to Philadelphia mere months before I was born. They could have moved anywhere, but chose Philly. That choice is the root of my love affair with Philadelphia sports teams. Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers - they’re my teams [...]

My alarm clock can awake me to nature sounds, a CD, any radio station I want.  This morning, a Monday morning at that, I was awoken by the dulcet tones of Rick Santorum and Bob Casey Jr. in a debate on the local all news station KYW.  I know your jealous.  What a pair these [...]

Growing up in Philadelphia one of my favorite childhood memories is that of my father taking my younger sister and I to Phillies games. The Phillies were great in those days: Steve Carlton pitching, Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski hitting, Larry Bowa and Garry Maddox catching. And to top it off the soundtrack [...]

I wanted to write about the Phillies today, but it seemed just a little trite after hearing about the tragedy that occured today in Lancaster County, PA. Four little girls killed by a man armed to fight an army. This just a week after the Pennsylvania state legislature had special meetings to discuss [...]