Mad TV


Fox's new "Mental" is about a psychiatric institution and its Patch Adams-style director. And it sucks.

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Posted Jun. 16, 2009 | Comments: 3

Stella's a Star


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. 


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Posted May. 19, 2009 | Comments: 0

Confined for Now

Lars doesn’t want to be there, every day, sitting in that chair, feet splayed out at an odd angle. But he can’t go anywhere until he gets a new wheelchair and he can’t get a new wheelchair until he has a job and he can’t get a job until he has a new wheelchair. Got that?

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Posted Mar. 31, 2009 | Comments: 2

Schizo-phrenzy's Sour Humor

I remember when the first arcade videogame touched down in Center City, around 1979. It landed...

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Posted Mar. 10, 2009 | Comments: 0

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John Yoo’s other crimes? He’s dreadfully boring, dishonest and sloppy
By Joel

John Yoo — and let his name never appear in these parts without “torture advocate” appended to them — finally made it back to the op-ed pages of the Inquirer yesterday. There’s been a lot of protest against Yoo’s column-writing gig at the Inquirer because a lot of people (reasonably, I think) don’t really want [...]