Monthly Archives: June 2009

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 [...]

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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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Gentrifuckers

Last Wednesday morning, Dennis Crowley received a text message from his employees at the Gold Standard Café saying that their building had received a radical new paint job. The café, at 48th and Baltimore streets, was in its fourth week of operation. By the time Crowley arrived, employees had begun removing the splotches of silver. [...]

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