Michael Callahan

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Philly’s Christmas-Tree Ban

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Dear Food Police: Lay Off Thanksgiving!

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Keeping Up With the Joneses

How many miles did you run today?

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This brassy, sassy tour guide is trying to save the store’s legacy, one story at a time

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Shut Down the U.S. Postal Service

It costs too much

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Plastic Surgery for Men Increases

Gender equality gone wrong

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Baby Boomers Screwed Up

What happened to respect?

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If you are forgoing city for ‘burbs, as a parent you want two things: safe streets and good schools. But after that, the choices vary: A touch of urbanity? Wide-open spaces? A charming downtown? We crunched the numbers, analyzed the data and forayed out into the field. No matter your preference, we found a locale worth moving to

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For me and an entire generation of Philadelphians, local broadcasters of yore like Gene London, Jim O’Brien and Hank Sperka were certified celebrities. Why can’t today’s bland batch of talking heads match up?

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You CAN Fight City Hall

But most don’t bother to try

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How Are You?

No one asking wants an honest answer

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Harry Kalas. Check.

Now who else needs a statue?

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Can We Be Graceful Winners?

Let’s not become single-minded champions

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A Kinder Philadelphia

What if we followed the rules?

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Seventy years after its release, it remains the greatest Philadelphia movie ever — an intoxicating cocktail of snappy dialogue and delightful characters perfectly capturing the old-money Main Line. But the tale of how The Philadelphia Story came to be — from Kate Hepburn’s steely determination to save her own career to Hope Montgomery Scott’s earthy joie de vivre — is as rich as anything that made it onto the screen