Brett Mandel looks well-rested. He’s not: For the past four days, the candidate for controller has been in the midst of 100 hours of nearly nonstop campaigning with three-hour “catnaps” at night. But to see him sitting at Zeke’s Café on Fifth and Spruce streets, sipping iced tea with his campaign team, you wouldn’t know [...]
Finnigan’s Wake may be Northern Liberties’ last bastion of working-class pubbery. The walls are spattered with union stickers and pro-police and military ephemera, and it was a fitting place for DA candidate Dan McCaffery to hold what turned out to be a concession party. McCaffery was the endorsee of unions and, judging by the crowd, [...]
Last week, a young waitress ambled about the sidewalk outside Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House, holding a tray of white sample drinks and offering them to passers-by. She was surrounded on all sides by shouting picketers — subcontractors who worked to renovate Del Frisco’s historic building, and say they are still owed $6 million. [...]
When Evi Numen sent me the portrait she had taken of me for her upcoming series, I was struck by how sickly and sullen I looked. For Numen, that’s a good thing: The unnamed exhibit, part of a number of senior thesis projects for Penn MFA students being shown at the Crane Arts Building, is [...]