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.
Michael Jackson is still dead.
The Michael Jackson Industrial Death Complex, however, thrives in its infancy. Dead Michael is fuel for tabloids, chat shows, and cable news because, clearly, the economy, two wars, and nuclear-arms talks are not newsy enough.
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Shinelle Diamond Superville has the name of a superhero. Which is fitting.
Much of what we take for granted in life, Superville does not.
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Karen Heller: Sanford set himself up for the fall
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Giant pandas. Siberian tigers. Brown bears. Republican leaders. These are among the world's endangered species. Reading the florid e-mail of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, it's possible to feel a bit sorry for the Grand Old Party as its dignitaries get charred like so much Argentine grilled meat. For a while, Democrats ruled on this front.
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Columnist Karen Heller says defense lawyers and former prosecutors she surveyed agree: Former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo is likely going to jail for a long time, and soon after his corruption conviction. B1.
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This Bastille Day, rather than storming the prison, U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter will determine how long former political pooh-bah Vincent J. Fumo ends up serving in one.
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The Franklin got its groove back. After a year of being The Franklin - which sounds like some swank condo project - the place is slowly reinstating the "Institute."
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This is City Council's final week before the illustrious body adjourns for summer recess. Then, school's out! The legislative body won't legislate for three months. Instead, members will attend block parties and perform services to keep constituents happy, which, correct me if I'm wrong, is the responsibility of city agencies.
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Philadelphia can be a terrible town for a citizen, an editor once quipped, but a wonderful place for a reporter.
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Every so often, like a dormant volcano, South Street erupts. The second-to-last time was Mardi Gras 2001, police say. Unfortunately, the last time was last Saturday.
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Less. In a country where General Motors declares bankruptcy, Americans are learning to deal with less of everything. Our region has less, too, including a dwindling pool of generous benefactors and civic leaders.
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Since vandals ravaged the children's community garden on Easter weekend, Vanoka Morris-Smith's life has blossomed anew. The garden, too. In the last seven weeks, she's received 136 letters, a nursery of plants, a load of equipment, $6,000 in monetary contributions, and special recognition from Mayor Nutter at the launch of Greenworks Philadelphia.
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When we last met former mailman Shawn McBride, son and grandson of Holmesburg mailmen, a court officer at the Criminal Justice Center, he had just published his first novel, Green Grass Grace.
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