Photo: David Maialetti / Philadelphia Inquirer As a fresh-off-the-boat South Asian, I used to feel a surge of pride whenever I saw American people struggling with spicy food. Bolstered by the ill-founded confidence a new, ...
We are not born with culture, but we are born into it. As we grow from babies into children into teenagers and finally adults, we collect memories, languages, behaviors, and customs. In this Freely Free ...
Photo: Chronicle/Darryl Bush “People without a sense of humor are not very smart,” hollered author Marjane Satrapi during a candid heart-to-heart conversation at the Annenberg Center of Communication, University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, March 14. ...
Illustration: Sana Kewalramani A swarm of people were huddled in the cosy Montgomery Auditorium of Parkway Central Library on Wednesday, Feb. 6, their eyes keenly following every nuance of DaMaris B. Hill’s calculated hand gestures ...
What prompted my foray into Philadelphia’s Halal food scene was an impromptu trip to Chick-fil-a on a hot June afternoon. As someone who tries to follow a strict Halal diet, meat, specifically good meat is ...
There was a hiccup, a cough, and the jumbled clip-clop of high heels and work boots. I was surrounded by a seething mass of humanity closing in at me from every angle, jolting me and ...
