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By Tara Murtha

Where the Sidewalk Ends

About 9 p.m. on Sunday, a line forms on the sidewalk at Eighth and Arch streets. People are waiting to get inside a makeshift "cafe," a space leased by the city to give homeless people a safe, warm p...

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Posted Dec. 31, 2008 | Comments: 6

NEWS AND OPINION > LAPTOP ANTHROPOLOGIST

By Tara Murtha

Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder

Before last month, the most bizarre thing I'd ever witnessed on Broad Street happened on Election Day 2004. Walking to my polling place, I saw a man hunker down and take a shit on the sidewalk in fro...

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Posted Nov. 19, 2008 | Comments: 1

NEWS AND OPINION > LAPTOP ANTHROPOLOGIST

By Tara Murtha

Laptop Anthropologist

My new friend Juli invited me to a party for transgendered people out in the 'burbs. After hours at a fancy restaurant in a posh pocket of manure-smelling McCain country is the unlikely spot where me...

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Posted Oct. 8, 2008 | Comments: 4

NEWS AND OPINION > LAPTOP ANTHROPOLOGIST

By Tara Murtha

Laptop Anthropologist

Ex-lovers--not that I talk to them--would tell you I'm not very nostalgic. I've always associated the saccharine sentimentality required for full-on nostalgia with stereotypical femininity, which is ...

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Posted Sep. 17, 2008 | Comments: 2

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Wanted strip-club shooter has rap sheet of prior charges, all withdrawn
By Tara Murtha

According to this report at Philly.com, police have identified Henry Pettigrew as the fool who, after cartoonishly slipping and falling twice while running with an AK-47, managed to fire several rounds into the Purple Orchid Gentleman’s Club in West Philly on May 11. The Raw Story reports that the shooting was retaliation for the DJ [...]

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Posted May. 24, 2013

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How the federal government is following Pennsylvania’s lead in cutting food stamps — and going a step further
By Randy LoBasso

The war on public assistance has hit Pennsylvanians hard since Gov. Corbett came into office in 2011. A little over a year ago, he introduced a food stamp asset test, which would seek to make sure those Pennsylvanians receiving SNAP benefits do not have too much money in their savings or checking accounts. Earlier this [...]

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Posted May. 23, 2013