Charles F. McElwee

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  • August 15, 2024
    Step out of the art deco cathedral that is Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station and you see a neighborhood-wide construction site. Stand beneath the station’s West Portico,...
  • June 25, 2024
    Today would mark my father’s seventieth birthday. We’re all here on a limited warranty, he’d often say, and his expired two years ago this summer. But throughout...
  • June 7, 2024
    In Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance, the French writer Alain describes his forthcoming book. “It’s really about irony. How ironic life can be,” he says....
  • February 12, 2024
    HAZLETON, Pennsylvania — In the final hours before residents cast their votes here last November, Mayor Aneudy Ortiz Sajiun worked the wards of this northeastern...