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Is there ever a good place to put an alternative high school for troubled kids?
Opponents to an alternative high school for troubled teens in the East Falls section of Philadelphia should not all be written off as NIMBY reactionaries.
A recent public hearing between the private school operator Delaware Valley High School (DVHS) and local residents brought out a host of concerns. In a recent Philadelphia Inquirer story, it [...]
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Bill Keller answers questions from high schoolers…
…and gives advice whose lucidity could only come from a conversation with children:
“Discipline, Alex and Tanieka, is the prerequisite for accuracy and fairness, which add up to integrity. To make sure you’ve got the story right, you learn to report against your own story. Check your facts, not only with the people who are likely [...]
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Summer Solstice at the Kimmel Center
It’s 10:30 AM on Sunday and my all-night attendance at the Summer Solstice at the Kimmel Center included a lack of sleep that blurred night into drum-circle dawn into day. I apologize in advance for any ramblings. Sleep deprivation’s creative powers, a recipe combining dopiminergic stimulation and delerious logic, has been known to be both [...]
11th and Sansom, 1:30 am
My girlfriend called it a “Zoe Strauss” moment. I can’t disagree:
Normally I would assume them to simply be homeless, but the pink hat and other elderly-chic elements make me think they went shopping and just had a geriatric sleep attack on their way home.
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Palo Alto
I recently returned from a 2.5 week vacation in California, a last hurrah to punctuate 4.5 years of higher education. Now is when I emerge from an academic cocoon and find interesting ways to pay rent and heating bills.
I spent most of my formative life in California, but my time spent in Philadelphia has highlighted [...]
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Nutter on the arts and the budget crisis
At a town hall meeting at City Hall on Friday to discuss the budget for the arts and announce his Arts Advisory Council, Mayor Michael Nutter again acknowledged that, yes, things are bad right now, and they will almost undoubtedly get worse. Tax revenues will continue to decrease as consumer spending plummets and the growing [...]
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Burning Love
City Paper staff writer and Philadelphia native Tom Namako put the post-World Series riots like this: “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.” For a few hours, I could get it. Brad Lidge’s winning pitch was the spark to a powder keg that’s been filled for the past 20 years. Fans had every [...]
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There’s a fine line between teaching and indoctrination, and Jeremy Zilber treads it like a tightrope walker. His new children’s book, Mama Voted for Obama, is 24 pages of somewhat crude Adobe Illustrator images accompanied by a Dr. Seuss rhyming scheme: “She didn’t vote for a sly fox/ or a blue ox/ or a cat named Socks/ [...]
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I’m just not that into you, genetically speaking
By 2008, most of us have realized that the person you consider your “soul mate” is really just the carrier of some genes you think a mini You ought to carry in his DNA. But talking and spending time together are so 19th century, and they leave you blind as to whether the genes of [...]
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