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Addam Schwartz

@addamschwartz.bsky.social
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Multiplatform editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philly lifer. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Taking the opportunity to promote this book. It’s a terrific read about the players, the game, the times, and of course the city.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At my first newspaper job, in Northeast Philadelphia, I interviewed a very nice man who said he knew where the fabled Fountain of Youth was. Because he had lived next door to Juan Ponce de Leon. In Northeast Philly. In the 1980s. The story landed him, and me, in a supermarket tabloid.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Scenes from Sunday night’s house party with Scott McCaughey @theeminus5.bsky.social at Chris and Deb’s awesome home in South Jersey. Top-five concert. Top-five human. Thanks, Scott, and may your Christmas wish come true. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social @ginae.bsky.social
Scott McCaughey on the guitar Closeup of Scott McOi playing piano The stage is setScott on guitar again
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 artists you’ve seen live B-52’s Beach Boys Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen Monkees Paul McCartney Ramones Richard Thompson Robyn Hitchcock Wilco
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#flyers
A T-shirt from a previous Flyers-Penguins series.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rainbow over CBP. #phillies
A rainbow over Citizens Bank Park.
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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Sometimes I can’t believe how dark it can be
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Harmony Vegetarian Chinese, in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. I found it not long after I’d given up meat, and Harmony had the best vegetarian ham fried rice in the world. I still miss the wonton soup and the perfectly prepared eggplant in black bean sauce.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Evergreen.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Representing “The Tweedy Show” at the Tweedy show at @uniontransfer.bsky.social in Philly. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social
With my wife at Union Transfer waiting for Jeff Tweedy.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Brought in this beauty from the garden today. It’s a Soldaki — a prized heirloom of Polish origin. Kind of like me. @annapplegate.bsky.social #tomatoes #soldaki #schwapplegatefarms
A beautiful Soldaki tomato.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: Gladys Knight and I Could Have Sworn There Was A Pip Around Here Somewhere
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Things got Weird in Philly last night. Amazing show by @alyankovic.bsky.social at the Mann.
A shot from the show’s opening montage reading “‘Weird Al’ Yankovic” in horror-movie typeAl dares to be stupid. Not being critical: It’s his Devo tribute. The man onstage at the Mann.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Forty years ago. It was scorchingly hot, super crowded, and absolutely perfect. Tickets had gone on sale less than three weeks earlier, and I wrote about scoring mine for the weekly paper I worked for. (I also wrote about the show, but I can’t find the clip.) #liveaid #northeasttimes
Live Aid tchochkes: program, T-shirt, and ticket stub. An article I wrote for the Northeast Times about buying Live Aid tickets.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Ringo at the Mann was everything I’d expected, and more. Watching an almost 85-year-old Beatle doing jumping jacks onstage was incredible in itself. But his band this time around was just amazing. Special props to co-drummer Greg Bissonette. And Hamish Stuart, who was anything but average.
Ringo Starr taking a lead vocal. Ringo Starr behind the drum kit.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
At the Mann for Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, with special guest … Larry Kane!
Larry Kane onstage at the Mann.
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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Every song's a comeback; every moment's a little bit later
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Harmony, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Philly, had a vegetarian ham fried rice that was perfection. And a place called Wiz Kid briefly made a vegan cheesesteak that made me forget I hadn’t had a real cheesesteak in 30 years. So good. Sigh.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Back in the ‘70s, the Phillies’ Del Unser used to be a .400 hitter. You’d see his name in the agate list of NL leaders. In April. Then, tragically, came May, and June, and he would stop being Ted Williams and be Del Unser again. That’s why I’m not too worried about Alec Bohm. Yet. #phillies
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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
With a sky blue sky, this rotten time, wouldn't seem so bad to me now
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/02/2025
Go Birds. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/9-s...
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9 Superb Owl Words
Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all? We do!
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“Saquon Barkley, you are the man!” — Harry Kalas in heaven, probably #eagles
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A belated New Year’s vertical tasting of Dr. Konstantin Frank dry Rieslings from 2015, 2020, and 2023 at Schwapplegate Estates. The winner: Us. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social #dryriesling #drfrank
A selection of Dr. Konstantin Frank dry Rieslings from 2015, 2020, and 2023. All delicious.
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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year...in jail!
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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
It’s so much worse than we feared
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This face.
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
“The Kallikaks” was probably the worst thing ever telecast, and I’m including the bottom of the ninth inning in Game Six of the 1993 World Series. Also “My Mother The Car.”
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The upside to our looming global environmental catastrophe: I’m still bringing in tomatoes like this one from my Northwest Philadelphia garden in mid-November. #alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife
A tomato from my garden
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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’m told it’s #SkySunday around here, so here’s a shot from (s)Lower Delaware.
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