NEWS AND OPINION > LAPTOP ANTHROPOLOGIST

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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Election 2012: Will Contraceptives be a Winning Campaign Issue?
By Randy LoBasso

Have you heard about Obama's "War on Religion"? (The newest phase, that is.)

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Posted Feb. 9, 2012

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Update: Deal Struck Between Mortgage Leaders and States; City Council not Happy
By Randy LoBasso

Despite many concerns (including those of Philly City Council) a deal between 49 states (including PA) and five big banks has been reached regarding predatory lending. Here's what that means.

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Posted Feb. 9, 2012