Bradford Pearson

my man walked out of his matinee performance of the Nutcracker and right into a CNBC hit

Trump stammering through deranged, self-branded portmanteaux for the Republican party

TEENJUS

I kept scrolling and waiting for Being There, and yet..

Taxi TV airing Newsmax clips

Probably not a great sign for America that this is what they’re showing in taxis these days

fourth quarter cowboys-eagles

Whenever I need inspiration I grab Jill Leovy’s Ghettoside off the shelf and it never fails to deliver.

gingerbread apple upside-down cake When the cake in question is a gingerbreaded, butterscotched, and apple-y update on a classic, it’s always Cake O’Clock somewhere.

this cake is insanely good, I think about it whenever I'm not eating it

getting a punch off like that in slides is not easy

I had to doublecheck to make sure you hadn't done this

I haven't seen the U.S. exert its will over Uruguay like this since the 1973 coup of Juan María Bordaberry

Provenance Is Philly’s Most Ambitious Restaurant — If It Can Survive Chef Nich Bazik has ruffled feathers — and spent a ton of cash — in his audacious quest to build a Michelin-grade restaurant more or less from scratch. Is that what Philadelphia wants?

If you're following the Michelin Guide announcements and thought "huh, what's the deal with Provenance?" have I got the story for you:

It All Felt Impossible (2025)

I live openly brother!!

Dalessandro's getting a Bib Gourmand makes me question the entire Michelin list

YouTube video by Brad Odell UNC vs Arizona - Nov 22nd, 1996 - Springfield Civic Center - Springfield, MA

the whole game's online!

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

I've worked full-time at six different media companies over my career and I don't think I can think of a single writer-writer relationship that hasn't ended in just spectacularly explosive move-across-the-country fashion.

guys tonight might be the night where Bluesky officially Has The Juice

The Trump administration’s economic policy is “you don’t really *need* Christmas now, do you?”

paris philly
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wheelies on dirtbikes

As far as his friends at the outdoor gym knew, the always cheerful 39-year-old man from a hardscrabble suburb of Paris had left his past behind. He no longer talked much about his years as a star of the city’s urban dirt bike subculture, a rider known as Doudou Cross Bitume who made his name doing wheelies up the Champs-Élysées. When asked why, his friends said, he told them he had since had children and didn’t want them associating him with that bad-boy image. Weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds on just one wheel in so-called urban rodeos was eventually deemed so dangerous, it was later made punishable by prison time.

"They're saying there's no way the Louvre heist guy could get any cooler, and

[checks earpiece]

folks I apologize and I stand corrected

Mine recently asked if we had indoor plumbing when I was a kid

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

I watched a massive man in head-to-toe Eagles gear almost smash through the front door at Cannuli’s because he forgot they closed at 1:30 on Sundays and he needed his turkey legs…Birds by 30.

55 and sunny all day, 10 straight hours of tailgating, impossible to quantify how cocked this Linc crowd is tonight

the work that photojournalists are doing in Chicago right now is incredible www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

How Questlove Became the Defining Drummer of His Generation John Lingan's new book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers, traces the Roots drummer’s journey from Philly prodigy to genre-shaping innovator.

Honored to have an excerpt from @johnlingan.bsky.social's exceptional new book in this month's @phillymag.com. I learned a lot about Questlove in this story, and I suspect you will too:

I know this is well outside the point, but from an editorial management standpoint dropping all those photography and videography resources into just a 2,500-word story doesn't seem like the best use of a budget!