Any day now I expect George Stephanopoulos, Sean Hannity, Hillary Clinton and John McCain to pressure Barrack Obama to renounce my endorsement.Mind you, Obama woudn’t know me from the man in the moon since I ‘ve never actually met him. But that’s splitting hairs. I’ve watched him on TV: I

Philadelphia’s a fine city. I only know its hotels, and frankly that’s the kind of intimacy I prefer: plastic and superficial. I don’t need to know your Liberty Bells or your World’s Largest Cheesesteak. Lately, cities are one-night stands: hard and fast. In and out. Hours later, I’m looking down

Two years ago the NBA engaged in one of the best postseasons ever. One night around 2 a.m. in New York, I was still in the giddy throes of the seven hours of playoff hoops, I sent an e-mail to a dozen or so hardcore basketball fans that said something

Sweet, Sour & Spicy Blackberry LimeadeYield: 2 ServingsSoundtrack: “Very Special” by Duke Ellington With Charles Mingus & Max Roach from Money Jungle.”After a few friends living on the east coast told me that they were nursing their second and third colds of this year, I conjured up this recipe. I

I was raised Baptist and spent more time in church than I thought any normal adolescent should. As soon as I left Atlanta and landed in Washington, D.C., I was determined to take full advantage of my new-found freedom. One of the first choices I made as a freshman at

The question I posed in this space before the Zimbabwe election on March 19th was whether the election would bring Democracy or Disaster? What comes to mind now, with no results announced after almost three weeks, is that old saying: ‘It’s always darkest just before it gets pitch black.’Despite the