NEWS AND OPINION > THE TROUBLE WITH SPIKOL
By Liz Spikol
Giovanni's Room is an essential resource for the community. And it needs your help.
NEWS AND OPINION > THE TROUBLE WITH SPIKOL
By Liz Spikol
Quaker City Flea Market in the shadow of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge is more than a century old. Many of the items for sale on the outdoor tables look about that age too. On a recent Sunday afternoon, there are fragments of a Mister Potato Head; an Iron Butterfly album; an antique washboard; a painted plastic virgin and child; a pink violin; and a glass table with a naked mermaid pedestal. So many reverberations—tacky and urbane—of history.
NEWS AND OPINION > THE TROUBLE WITH SPIKOL
By Liz Spikol
Fox's new "Mental" is about a psychiatric institution and its Patch Adams-style director. And it sucks.
NEWS AND OPINION > THE TROUBLE WITH SPIKOL
By Becca Trabin
Stella Iliopoulos is sort of a local rock star. Although the friendly, petite 37-year-old was diagnosed with schizophrenia years ago, she’s managed to carve out a niche for herself on the ever-changing South Street—simply by going there a few days a week on and off for about 12 years. People there dig her.
Oh yeah, this is going to work out great: If the foreign forces are not seen so by Afghans already, they are on the cusp of being regarded as occupiers, with little to show people for their extended presence, fueling wild conspiracies about why they remain here. The feeling is particularly acute in the Pashtun south, but [...]
My conservative collaborator Ben is fond of warning about the unintended consequences of new laws and regulations, and hoo boy, do they have some in California right now: Veterinarians who did not want cities meddling in their business persuaded the state Legislature to bar local governments from banning the practice of declawing cats — beginning in [...]
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