Philly Bricks

As they are wont to do, a meme's making the rounds that both grossly generalizes and exaggerates an important sociopolitical topic and d...

When Gertrude Stein returned to Oakland in the 1930s and found her home was gone, she famously quipped, “there is no there there.” It’s hard...

I've heard time and again how the newly proposed Sixers Center City arena at the beleaguered Fashion District Mall would be "good f...

Several years ago a friend of mine in San Francisco was complaining about “another classic car show” taking up space. I was instantly jealou...

Nothing fiddles while Rome burns quite like a candlelit tribute to mediocrity atop a school shutdown for gentrification's bird's ey...

If I were to tell you there was a fitness center in the heart of the city that had a swimming pool, racquetball court, basketball court,  sa...

Among all the "four letter words" the internet age has wrought, none may be as underhandedly ugly as "optimization." Amo...