The celebrated HBO historical drama Boardwalk Empire, set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, is making its way through its second season, and I’m catching up, having recently finished watching the first season. The well-funded period piece, with backing from Scorsese, Wahlberg and others, tracks the life and times of a character based on a real political [...]

Happy Fourth of July. A couple weekends ago, while filing a lot of copy, I was engrossed in the 12-part History Channel documentary called America: The Story of Us. It reminded me of what the History Channel does best. In a world where the access to information is endless, the context of that information was [...]

I tend to watch films in move theaters when I think they’ll have a particularly significant impact, will be worth remembering years from now and, of course, when I’m lured in by the story. The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s film that tells with some literary license of the meteoric first-year rise of Facebook, fit the [...]

I take something of pride in sometimes indulging in great cultural luxuries long after their novelty has waned. With that knowledge, I’ll share my thoughts on finishing the complete five-season DVD set of celebrated HBO drama ‘the Wire‘ to encourage readers to watch it again, assuming you’ve seen the show at some point since it [...]

I’m 24 and have made just two appearances on TV news, so take this piece of advice as much or as little as you’d like. But a friend was being interviewed by her local news affiliate and asked for any advice I might have. I offered her what I thought was most important: have a [...]

I contributed a short profile of a 1995 Temple University law graduate to the winter issue of Temple Review, the university’s alumni magazine. Trial lawyers are storytellers, and Lukas Reiter, LAW ’95, always wanted to be a storyteller. He’s just taken it one step further now. After graduating from the Klein School of Law, Reiter, [...]

In today’s Metro-Philadelphia, I covered the always vitriolic response to the Philadelphia Parking Authority, ahead of next week’s debut of the third season of “Parking Wars,” though I’ll have a more directly related piece next week. Clarence Shippen Jr. keeps watch outside his office at 8th and Locust streets. Read the rest here. Below check [...]

The way we have gained information has apparently changed in the past 200 years, according to a really interesting and insightful graphical analysis of those trends by online magazine Baekdal.com. The graphic analysis, as depicted above, aims to give some sense of the how the sources of information developed in common society. It suggests that [...]

I’ve been told relentlessly that The Wire is the best show that has been on TV in years. Aside from Slate magazine, I got that message no less than a dozen times from friend and journalist Chris Reber. I watched the first episode for the first time yesterday and, instead, got caught up in reading [...]

Tomorrow, new Mayor Michael Nutter will be interviewed by ABC’s Charles Gibson, host of the network’s signature news broadcast, World News Tonight. ABC will also follow Nutter to film a day in the life segment. Gibson will host World News from Old City tomorrow night, as well. The feature comes as Nutter comes into one [...]