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.
This isn’t abuse, exactly, but it’s probably not good parenting: With the birth of his son 15 years ago, dedicated linguist d’Armond Speers embarked on the ultimate experiment: He spoke to him only in Klingon — the language of the alien race of “Star Trek” fame — for the first three years of his life. “I was [...]
Ever since 9/11, conservatives of the “clash of the civilizations” stripe have had a favorite word they like to casually toss at appeasing lefties: “Dhimmi.” It’s an Arabic word that applies, basically, to lesser status of non-Muslims in Muslim lands. Any time public officials wrestle with how to accommodate Muslims in America — say, when [...]
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