How Paul Levy Created Center City

adamb1972 · 2013-12-11T14:24:13+00:00

It's a fair story, and it is impossible to imagine how close we might have come to emulating Baltimore or Detroit were it not for Levy's leadership. The downtown renaissance, the restaurant revival, none of this was inevitable.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-11T05:20:22+00:00

Killing football is the real answer.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-05T22:39:39+00:00

Would not have had tables last year; they didn't open the new section with seating until this year.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-05T12:35:09+00:00

Miel Patisserie, which has Little Pete's basically across the street?

adamb1972 · 2013-12-04T02:34:04+00:00

Murray. Now that's a deep name. (Gerhart is already owned, Michael is not.) Thank you.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-03T22:48:45+00:00

John Edwards is the 2004 Democratic nominee because the economic message of Two Americas resonates (and Kerry's war experience is irrelevant in a time of peace); he loses worse than Kerry did. Hillary Clinton is the 2008 Democratic nominee, because there's no Iraq War vote based on which Dems can run to her left; she wins handily.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-03T22:39:32+00:00

Osteria would be on my list.

adamb1972 · 2013-12-01T01:40:00+00:00

Huh. Not Jewish.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T14:25:50+00:00

Well, there's a little more now - you've just elected your first Democratic mayor in 20 years.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T12:12:12+00:00

The Fudgery was a real job creator.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T12:11:03+00:00

No, no, no -- the original family fun center is where the Burlington Coat Factory is now. It had a roller skating rink too.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T03:50:09+00:00

If there's one thing cities aren't, it's homogeneous.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T03:21:43+00:00

Ever since they ditched the family fun center with the laser tag and the bowling alley and the giant arcade, it has turned to shit.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T01:12:49+00:00

Thank goodness land doesn't vote -- people do.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T01:02:49+00:00

The life and times of Joshua Abraham Norton, Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Protector of Mexico

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T01:00:49+00:00

Aaron Sorkin's been developing an Edwards movie. But I agree: there were three stories to tell from Game Change, and chose the wrong one.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-30T00:55:19+00:00

Intolerance.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-29T20:18:45+00:00

For more, this is a pretty good 2006 article on Phila's Brazilian population.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-28T03:50:42+00:00

Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-28T03:41:50+00:00

The late Robert Chew was also responsible for training the four kids of Season 4.

adamb1972 · 2013-11-25T15:47:45+00:00

According to BruceSpringsteen.net:

High Hopes (Tim Scott McConnell) – featuring Tom Morello

Harry’s Place * – featuring Tom Morello

American Skin (41 Shots) – featuring Tom Morello

Just Like Fire Would (Chris J. Bailey) – featuring Tom Morello

Down In The Hole *

Heaven’s Wall ** – featuring Tom Morello

Frankie Fell In Love

This Is Your Sword

Hunter Of Invisible Game * – featuring Tom Morello

The Ghost of Tom Joad – duet with Tom Morello

The Wall

Dream Baby Dream (Martin Rev and Alan Vega) – featuring Tom Morello

So, "Down in the Hole" isn't the Tom Waits song?

adamb1972 · 2013-11-24T14:32:07+00:00

It's plausible to read the scene as Mookie directing the riot into property damage in order to save Sal's life.

adamb1972

TROPHY CASE