The Philadelphia Inquirer

Boston A "Football Town?" Not Even Close

Whenever I read something about football that sounds like it was written in a barroom by someone as sloshed as Rance Preibus at the RNC, it invariable comes from ColdHardFootballFacts.com. The latest beer-soaked rant comes from Kerry J. Byrne on August 26: "There is this mythology in certain circle ... More >>

NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

Bloomberg Backs Breastfeeding: Report

In an article titled "Mike: Do What's Breast for Baby" (no, really), the

Occupy L.A., Occupy Philadelphia Both Cleared; LAPD Handpicked Media Present For the Raid

Los Angeles moved to evict Occupy protesters from the park outside its City Hall last night, which the occupiers had been calling "Solidarity Park." More than a thousand cops in riot gear arrested 200 people and dismantled tents. According to reports, the eviction was mostly peaceful. The last holdo ... More >>

TOP SHAKESPEARE

I feel the need, the need for a sword fight!

With Cliff Lee, Will the Phillies Rotation Be the Best Ever?

​Does the acquisition of Cliff Lee give the Philadelphia Phillies the best rotation in baseball history? That's a little premature, but you can certainly make a good argument. Right now, Roy Halliday, Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels certainly look to rank with the 1954 Cleveland In ... More >>

Dock Strike Creates a Harbor Still-Life as Boats and Barges Wait it Out

​If you can find a good high view, New York harbor is a pretty interesting sight right now. Thanks to the wildcat sympathy strike that began yesterday, there are a dozen loaded barges and at least ten freighters sitting idle between Staten Island and the Statue of Liberty. Over on the Bayonne ... More >>

Megabus Driver Who Killed Four Passengers Was Distracted by GPS

via The Post-Standard​Texting while driving is dangerous, but doing the equivalent of that with dozens of people on board a "mega" vehicle is like playing with fire. The Megabus crash that left four dead and many injured in Syracuse on Saturday occurred because the driver was checking his own ... More >>

Retrosexual Denies Retrosexual Trend, While Wearing Boat Shoes

​Back in early April we stumbled upon a Philadelphia Inquirer trend piece all a-drool over the latest meme in man-style: the "Retrosexual." According to the piece, such a fellow, largely inspired by Don Draper, trounced about with a trilby atop his pomaded 'do, clad in a three-piece suit, ciga ... More >>

In the U.S. Senate, A Hearing on Downgrading Rape Complaints; In Our City Council, Crickets (Update)

While elected officials here in the city are reticent to hold public hearings on allegations published in the Village Voice on the downgrading of criminal complaints by the NYPD, the United States Senate has no such qualms about looking at the practice across the country. Senator Arlen Specter, a d ... More >>

Donovan McNabb in DC: Still Black

​Open your window this beautiful spring day and you can still hear Giants fans chortling over the Philadelphia Eagles' decision to trade quarterback Donovan McNabb. His replacement will be Kevin Kolb (0 -- that's zero -- NFL starts), who told the Philadelphia Inquirer "don't expect any drop-of ... More >>

FBI Opens an Investigation Into PA High School's Webcam Spying

zazzle.com​It all started when a 16-year-old was called into the assistant principal's office for eating Mike and Ikes. Now, the Lower Merion School District in an affluent suburb of Philadelphia is facing a federal class-action lawsuit, an FBI investigation, and a grand jury subpoena over all ... More >>

10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

94 critics voted. The results are in.

World Series Fever Leads to Reciprocal Insults, Prostitution

​The crude boosterism of local tabs has certainly helped jack up interest in the World Series. Some people, of course, needed no help. A woman has been arrested for offering sexual favors for Series tickets. It pains us to reveal the 43-year old woman, Susan Finkelstein (pictured), is a Philli ... More >>

Next day stories

The Albany Times-Union wants Hiram Monserrate pushed out to preserve "[n]othing less than whatever dignity is left" to the State Senate. The editorial calls Monserrate's continued presence "an assault on the sensibilities of the people of New York in the first degree" which would show the Senate as ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

Gap's Crazy Spring Khakis

The Cartoons Conspiracy

The story behind the story of the furor over the Muhammad cartoons

Press Bitching

The Squeeze Is On

Love Child of Billy Elliot and Billy Banks

Nobel Prize in Football; You're Clay and Can

Original Scoop for 'Grand Theft' Sex Scenes

Morning Report 12/27/04
Disasters Natural and Unnatural

Curses!

The Red Sox finally win it. But who's to say another drought isn't just beginning?

Voter's Digest

The latest election fraud warnings

Sex, Lies, Death

The irresistible pull of the down-low myth—uh, story—hooks reporters and their readers

U.S. Turns to Mercenaries

Moonstruck

Is poetic license enough of a reason to explore the empty frontier of outer space?

Not-So-Great Debates

The Clash Between Forum and Function

The Culture of Death

Who Will Decide When You Should Die?

Unexpected Steps Against the Patriot Act

Left, Right, Left, Right

Pulitzer Fever

The Prize Season Is Upon Us

Fight Songs

Are We Dead Yet?

Media Industry Hit by Rolling Layoffs

Out of the Ashes

Rudy Tries to Ride Rubble to Reelection

Inside Eric's Brain

‘Mother Jones,’ Meet Henry Luce

Public Interest Journalism Is Born Again

Gotcha!

The Latest Ways Big Brother’s Watching You

Snow-Blind on 43rd Street

The Times’ Silence on Plan Colombia

Nation

Get Me Download!

Reporting the real Philadelphia story

Philly Cops Accused of Hog-Tying Prisoners

Many Arrestees

Dragged Naked Through Water Trough

Prisoners Say Brutality Continues in Philly Jail

Big Blue Brother

How Cops Use State-of-the-Art Surveillance Against Demonstrators

It's a Small World After All

Sue the Messenger, Part Two

In 2000 the Media Takes It From All Sides

Size Matters

At 6-7 and 720 pounds, sumo wrestler Manny Yarbrough is living large. Very, very large.

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