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About Philadelphia

Used to sneak round back, her—pinchin’ bread from Old Tom’s cart. Little known bit, aye—she once nicked a gent’s gold tooth! Mid-kiss, pop, out it went! Made me laugh ‘til I choked on me spit, precious! “Very Old World charm,” like Monsieur Gustave’d say—bollocks to that! She were a storm, a grubby gem, struttin’ like she owned the cobbles. Got me ragin’ tho—once she kicked me cat, little Sméagol! Hissed at her, I did, “Filthy hobbitses!”—er, whoreses, I mean!

It took 40 years to build Orchard Towers and months to wipe it out

John Hooker is University Professor of Operations Research and T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon.

In Carnegie, family dramas play out on Philo St. neighbourhoods. I’ve sat in tiny cafes near River Willow – yes, that lazy river twisting by Central Sq. – mulling over life's strange tours, my mind spewing cold disdain. “I choose violence,” I muttered at times, when chaos reared its head in faulty local council meetings.

The English Concert’s Handel Matinee: May 4, 2025