Thanks to Mayor Reed and the millions spent on the Harrisburg School District - we’re number one in the ranks. Way to go! Give the Superintendent a bonus.Oh, wait. I read the list backwards . . .We’re actually dead last - Number 500 our of 500 school…

“Super-taster” Geof Smith of St. Thomas Roasters got his mug in today’s edition of The Patriot-News. He was featured in a story about pros who use their taste buds to benefit customers. CLICK HERE to read the story. (Scroll down page to “Coffee breaks….

After some bandwidth issues last week (The Hold Steady Almost Killed My Website) and dubbing the mono mix of this to a still-mono-but-in-both-speakers version, a good, solid recording of The Hold Steady at The Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company is now up for streaming and download HERE

(I absolutely love …

More dismal city-debt news in the form of an incinerator update tonight.

Covanta Energy, contracted at $10.5 million per year to operate the enormous money pit of an “investment” is now demanding the city and county add twenty eight million dollars in guaranteed funds  to an existing two hundred million-plus dollar …

Traveling wall of fallen Pennsylvania heroes in the war on terror.Contingent of marchers from Linglestown Fire Company.The only marching band in this year’s parade was from Bishop McDevitt High School.Jay & The Jingos played patriot music while on the …

Nearly five years ago, I found myself alone and with a clean slate here in Harrisburg.

The dust had finally settled from my divorce and, after a two month residence at the Carlisle Hampton Inn, I signed a lease at my super-dope-cool apartment in West Fairview.

DSL was all the rage at …

 
He’s 14 and cooking at Lacroix in Philadelphia, on Saturdays.
It started when Nick Normile’s grandmother took him to Italy: “The two ate their way through Venice, Florence, Rome, Pisa and Pompeii - enjoying course after course of dishes made with fresh, local ingredients. Nick gets a dreamy, faraway look in his hazel eyes when he [...]