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By Tara Murtha
When rumors ricocheted around the blogosphere late last November that Philadelphia hip-hop legends the Roots were going to become the house band on the new show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, some fans freaked out. The member of the group best equipped to deal with the tsunami of criticism was the man with the shortest roots in the Roots, a guy who sometimes wasn’t even included in the stock band photos that accompanied articles about the Fallon announcement—new bassist Owen Biddle.
By Adam Erace
Junior year, Hayden Hall: the when and where of my first encounter with a sea...
By Martin Smith
Michael Kingsley fell down on and died on 13th Street, early in the evening of Sun., Feb. 8. He was just across from Macy’s, a few feet north of Chestnut. And nobody stopped to help him. If they had, an ambulance would have been called. He would have been taken to the hospital. Penicillin could have saved his life. But nobody stopped. Nobody asked if he was okay. They walked past, on their cellphones, and tried as hard as they could not to look down at the dying man on the street. I know, because I’ve done it myself a million times.
By John Steele
Tom Ferrero has been pumping grease traps for 20 years. As a third-generation septic pumper,...
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Friendly Lounge
Back in 1971, when Dom and his brother Marco...
