The movement is already afoot, put on most prominent display by the Knight Foundation’s Random Acts of Culture, but I crave more. Last Wednesday, I was waiting to meet someone in the food court beneath the giant Comcast Center in Center City Philadelphia. Then people started singing, as you can sort of make out in [...]

Sometimes it’s the stories you don’t quite expect to, that get one of the warmest responses. I posted two weeks ago about a story on the secret lives of ballerinas I wrote for the Inquirer. It came on the same day as my Philadelphia Weekly cover story on suburban rapper Asher Roth. While the Roth [...]

I cover the secret passions of a handful of Pennsylvania Ballet dancers in a story for the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. It was last summer when Brooke Moore figured she and her father had probably scared away a mountain lion. The deer they discovered was freshly killed, its leg just torn off; there were no bugs [...]