Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.
Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty.
Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda.
- SEPTA accord falls apart
- Strike: A risk worth taking?
- Strike survival guide
- The Populist: Updike at Rest
You have to admire the massive brakes of SEPTA union boss Willie Brown. He authorized TWU Local 234's World Series surprise 3 a.m. strike Tuesday, which put the city in one perpetual traffic jam, stranding the very sort of workers (and their children) he represents.
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Once brazen in its mediocrity, Pennsylvania has now distinguished itself by being late or last in almost everything. Why run in the middle of the pack when you can be 50th? The commonwealth may finally get table games, just as the industry implodes.
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Karen Heller: Blue bombast in Bensalem
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For World Series tickets, dear reader, I have offered far more than sex. I have vacuumed, which is not in my skill set. Also, laundered.
- When the no-snitch ethic masks abuse by parents, children suffer. Don't hesitate to report it.Charleeni Ferreira, in the only photograph we have, is apple-cheeked, smiling, wearing a gold crown tinged with pink. She looks, to the camera, to the outside world, like a happy little girl with the future ahead of her.
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We're sitting in the 300 level next to a trio of purebred mooks. It's not quite the rarefied air of the Vet's 700 level, the scientific state where blood's cut off to the cerebral cortex, but close. The mooks are in exquisite form.
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We're sitting in the 300 level next to a trio of purebred mooks. It's not quite the rarefied air of the Vet's 700 level, the scientific state where blood's cut off to the cerebral cortex, but close. The mooks are in exquisite form.
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Philadelphia is fortunate enough to have the nation's largest urban park. It's less fortunate in having an extraordinary amount of vacant land and abandoned properties.
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As if the pennant race weren't exciting enough, the mayor has proclaimed Wednesday as Aunt Jemima Frozen Breakfast Education Day.
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This week, I took in the latest installment of the Barnes and Bailey Circus. The Barnes Foundation is the seemingly serene institution whose recent history and planned move have created as much turbulence and division as its founder did during his lifetime.
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Who are these evil, awful ACORN people conservatives keep attacking? Grandmothers and great-grandmothers like Junette Marcano and Miriam McKnight, organizers of the West Oak Lane branch.
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Philadelphia is a big city that frequently acts like a small one. This is a charming approach - charming, but wrong. Where, precisely, has it gotten us? It's time to think bold and big.
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