By Jaime O'Neill
Writer Jaime O'Neill says Queenan's memoir is self-serving and overwritten.
By Brian Hickey
On this, the eve of a fresh baseball season, fans of all 30 big-league franchises fill themselves to the brim with the hope that their squad will accomplish what the Phillies did in 2008. But fans of disgraced pitcher Roger Clemens find this to be anything but the season of their content. For the first time since the mid-1980s, Clemens is more likely to face federal perjury charges for allegedly deceiving Congress’ probe of steroids in America’s pastime than to come out of retirement and pitch a perfect game.
By Liz Spikol
This weekend Slate’s editor Jacob Weisberg wrote an ode to his new Kindle, saying its existence “marks a cultural revolution” and “tells us that printed books, the most important artifacts of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and magazines on the road to obsolescence.” Dude. Harsh.
By Liz Spikol
Are you an outlier? It'd be nice to think so if you understand the title of Malcolm Gladwell's latest book as a term for people who are successful beyond the norm--freaks of nature and economy like B...
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Near perfect weather brought out thousands of festival-goers for the annual Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival this Saturday, May 19th. Walnut st. was blocked off to traffic from Broad to 22nd, where the city’s finest dining, chicest boutiques, and most stylish dogs (including one in an Alexander McQueen scarf, the proof is in the pictures below!) [...]
Trying to pair your newly acquired summer skin with a head of dark Kardashian hair usually ends poorly; average dyes actually rough up the cuticle of the hair, entering each strand and allowing sun to damage it. Ultimately, you end up with a head of brassy, orange streaks by the end of August. To keep [...]
Everyone knows this season’s hottest trend is pastels. They’re the most fun way to ring in the warm weather, but looking like a human crayola box is only fun for so long. Eventually, the novelty of wearing colors wears off, and you want to go back to black. Leather quietly emerged as part of this season’s [...]