Stu Bykofsky

Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia's Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.

Email Stu at stubyko@phillynews.com

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Stu Bykofsky: Immigrants are key to the American spirit - 07/06/2009: CONSIDERING THE recent headlines, I went looking for an Iranian, and found one, but the interview didn't really pan out.
Stu Bykofsky: Irv Homer's 'forgotten' son just wants his birthright - 07/02/2009: EVEN a public life has private secrets, and, following Irv Homer's death, one of his wanted to be heard. "I want to claim my birthright," I was told by Jeff Pergament, the 58-year-old son of long-time talk-show host Homer. Pergament was pained to not be named in obituaries as a survivor, when even Gary, an estranged son, was mentioned.
Stu Bykofsky: He found his heart in San Francisco - 06/29/2009: TOMMI AVICOLLI MECCA was gay before it was fashionable, before "Will & Grace" and Adam Lambert. The 57-year-old South Philadelphian-turned-San Franciscan was out there before most of us knew what out meant. If Tommi were any more gay, he'd burst into flames.
Stu Bykofsky: U.S. shouldn't bail out hostage journalists in N. Korea - 06/25/2009: IT'S HARD FOR me as a journalist, and as an American, to write this, but if Laura Ling and Euna Lee deliberately crossed into forbidden North Korea to grab some video and perhaps an interview, the U.S. shouldn't do much, overtly, to help them.
Stu Bykofsky: Ed McMahon: Always real, always a real Philadelphian - 06/24/2009: THE MAN WITH the Golden Lungs, Ed McMahon, never "went Hollywood." Born in Detroit, reared all over the East Coast, when he hit Philadelphia he sank roots, adopted our down-to-earth addytudes and, despite his fame, never got too high on himself.
Stu Bykofsky: Will No. 3 CEO be the charm at PSPCA? - 06/22/2009: MIGHT THE appointment of Sue Cosby to run the Pennsylvania SPCA end the two-year civil war between PSPCA supporters and those of the defunct Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association (PACCA)?
Stu Bykofsky: Palin daughter joke a real stupid Letterman trick - 06/18/2009: DAVE LETTERMAN's Monday-night apology for a late-night rotten joke seemed sincere, but part of his explanation is questionable and how he came to his epiphany is memorable.
Stu Bykofsky: D.A. candidates tell us how we can trust the system again - 06/15/2009: THE RECENT Kensington Beatdown added a new chapter to Philadelphia folkore, already an encyclopedia of dysfunction from cannibalism to wilding to flash mobs.
Stu Bykofsky: On Aug. 19, take my candidates, please - 06/11/2009: IF THEY turned what's happening to America into a science-fiction movie, it would be called "The Incredible Shrinking Country." Check the size of GM, now called Government Motors. Check the size of your 401(k). My God, even Howard Eskin's ego has gone down a few sizes! (I apologize for that gratuitous, cheap shot at Mr. Eskin, done solely for the purpose of comedy.)
Stu Bykofsky: Sometimes, intimidation is in eye of beholder - 06/08/2009: ON ITS FACE, it sounded both terrifying and deeply wrong. A couple of New Black Panthers - militia-attired, beret-wearing, jackbooted jackasses - one of them carrying a nightstick, stood in front of a polling place at 1212 Fairmount Ave. last November intimidating voters and blocking the entrance.