Annette John-Hall is a metro columnist for The Inquirer. She was previously a features reporter and columnist focusing on music, film television and pop culture. A native of Berkeley, Calif., she covered professional, college and high school sports at the San Jose Mercury News, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Oakland Tribune.
Her column appears Tuesdays and Fridays in The Inquirer's metro section.
Annette John-Hall's column does not appear today.
You can't miss the billboard that rises out of the rolling farmland near Cookstown in Burlington County, on a long stretch of road coming from McGuire Air Force Base.
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It seems these days there's a renewed interest in history. Lincoln. FDR. Truman. And now Obama. It's nothing new for those of us in Philadelphia.
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Musical-theater therapy is what I call it. Once that curtain goes up, well, our worries disappear behind fun, song and fantasy.
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Annette John-Hall: Instead of counting calories, focus on the things that count
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Stop the (panini) presses. Oprah Winfrey is fat again. Yes, the talk-show queen has revealed that she's officially a heavyweight - 200 pounds.
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The big dogs from the Big Three automakers made their way to Capitol Hill last week, parking their corporate jets in favor of a little ride in, get this, cars.
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Yes, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and a half-dozen of his officers were there. Still, Mayor Nutter could have used more backup the other night at the venom-spewing town-hall meeting - his second in a series of neighborhood smackdowns over his budget cuts.
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Percy "Buster" Custus doesn't mess around. When he sees a need, he doesn't complain about it, or procrastinate over it, or ignore it. He acts on it.
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It's not as if Susanne Whitehead is running around with a paper bag over her head. After all, she's not the only one who's had to swallow her pride in these harsh economic times. Everybody's hurting.
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The library saved me. Not to sound too melodramatic, but it's true. There's no telling where I'd be without the Berkeley Public Library, South Berkeley branch.
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Annette John-Hall on owing Obama. B1. Trudy Rubin on secretary of state options. Currents, D1.
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WASHINGTON - That giant sigh you hear is me exhaling. Because now that the election is over and Barack Obama has won, I can ask:
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