http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister RSS Feed for Inq Col Gail Shister en-us Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:29:27 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20080622_Now__fund-raisers_for_Obama_.html There's no such thing as a short story when Mark Aronchick is telling it. Like everything in Aronchick's life, words are an energy pool into which the Center City lawyer dives headfirst, coming up for air only when forced to inhale. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20080331_Phila__s_gay_Democrats_emerge_as_a_voting_force.html You don't see many women at Woody's, but Chelsea Clinton popped in last week. To a packed house of screaming supporters, the 28-year-old former first child led a presidential pep rally for her mother at one of the oldest gay bars in Philadelphia. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20080609_Making_the_police_safe_for_gay_officers.html Philadelphia's new police commissioner is pushing a more open attitude toward brotherly love in the city. Within his own ranks, Charles H. Ramsey wants to make it safe for gay and lesbian officers to be out of the closet amid a macho culture that, he acknowledges, keeps most of them in hiding. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070328_Gail_Shister___Falco_cried_a_river_over_Sopranos_demise.html It's the beginning of the end for The Sopranos, and Edie Falco is hurting. Falco, who plays Carmela Soprano on the landmark HBO mob drama, made like the Mississippi at the recent cast reading of Sopranos' swan-song script. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070329_Gail_Shister___Diane_Sawyer_lands_Matos_McGreevey_in_the_morning.html Dina's doing Diane in the morning and - get this - NBC and CBS say it's no big whup. Dina Matos McGreevey, ex-wife of former New Jersey governor Jim "I'm a Gay American" McGreevey, will sit down with Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer for her only morning-show interview. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070403_Gail_Shister___Jeff_Greenfield_defends_his_new_colleague_Katie_Couric.html Part of the reason CBS's Katie Couric can't catch a break is because she's a she, says new colleague Jeff Greenfield. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070404_Gail_Shister___Dobbs__not_an_a_m__guy__becoming_an_a_m__guy_at_CBS.html Just when you thought Lou Dobbs couldn't possibly suck up any more face time . . . Already seen seven nights a week at 6 on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, big Lou will add CBS's The Early Show to his portfolio, the Eye announced yesterday. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070412_Gail_Shister___MSNBC_pulls_the_plug_on_Imus.html With advertisers bailing and critics boiling, MSNBC yesterday canceled simulcasts of Don Imus' popular weekday radio show, Imus in the Morning. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070420__Facing_a_storm__TV_limits_video.html In an unusual midcourse correction, TV networks have scaled back, or stopped altogether, running the disturbing video made by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/20070501_No_news_would__briefly__be_welcome_news.html Steve Capus graduated from Temple with a degree in communications, but judging by the last few weeks, he should have majored in crisis management.