Items by NickG

• Rumblings: Upper Darby, WTF???

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  Upper Darby’s got the weirds right now: >>>Somebody beat up a nun, in a church parking lot, breaking her pelvis, and stealing a purse that was empty of pretty much anything of value. Except, probably, forgiveness. [Inky] >>>A 19-year-old just went around setting a bunch of fires like she was a 9-year-old. [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 2:47pm EST
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• More Fun With Public Records: Gay Edition

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  Public records of donations are nifty things. Back when, you may remember the time “local man”/weird God, gays and science dude John Templeton Jr gave an estimated $1 million to the efforts to defeat PASS Proposition 8 in California - the discriminatory ballot initiative that united Mormons, anti-gay churches, and [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 12:42pm EST
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• Captain Freeshit: Win Tix To See Antony And The Johnsons At The Keswick Theatre

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  We’ve always been surprised by exactly how compelling we find Antony and The Johnsons. Probably because we, like everybody else, expect our chanteuses to be both beautiful and women, neither of which descriptors quite fit Antony. But holy crap, peep the beauty that is his cover of Leonard Cohen’s [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 1:05pm EST
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• Exit Strategies: Our Consulting Fee Can Be Paid In Free Cable

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  Today’s big question is: Will Brian Tierney be able to convince Chinese state-controlled media that his papers will provide them with enough power projection to make it worth the large financial losses they’re likely to incur if they buy him out? We know that sounds INSANE, so we are going [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 4:20pm EST
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• Right Now On Phoodie: Beers For The New Year, Weirdly Tequila-ed Holiday Cocktails, No More Stars!

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  · Local 44 To Nurse West Philadelphians From Behemoth Barrel Menu · Holiday Cocktail Roundup ‘08 · Breaking: Chocolaty Stars Are SOLD OUT! · Fresh Video: Butcher & Singer In 60 Seconds All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 4:35pm EST
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• Rumblings: The Olds

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  At Philebs we don’t always write that much about Old Philadelphia, because of its frequently self-inflected backwards-looking stance on all things awesome. But today: >>>The National Constitution Center just put on display the only tea chest from the freaking Boston Tea Party. [CBS3] >>>Penn’s Museum of Archaeology has belatedly realized that it [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 1:30pm EST
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• Rumblings: There’s Probably More To Come

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  >>>Yeah, yeah, some folks stole Baby Jesus from a nativity scene like they always do. Two thoughts: First, if Big Baby Jesus was still with us, he would be the best Baby Jesus ever. Second, everybody should totally track their stolen Baby Jesuses with LightningGPS, who promotes itself by offering [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2008, 2:19pm EST
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• Coming To A Federal Courthouse Near You: National Lampoon’s Boiler Room

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  Tee hee! Philadelphia’s own acting U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid indicted the head of National Lampoon for trying to pump up his stock. According to the charges, between March and June 2008, National Lampoon CEO Daniel Laikin conspired with Dennis Barsky, who is listed on National Lampoon SEC filings as a [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2008, 1:12pm EST
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• Noontime Nuggetz: This City Is So Totally Our Town

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  Art school kid Frank Stewart gives up a very sweet portrait of this crazy place that still manages to be just so Philly. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2008, 1:02pm EST
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• Rumblings: Hustlers, No Doubt

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  >>>Solomon Leach reports in Metro that the lobbying is on as Comcast tries to hold down their non-satellite TV monopoly by giving backrubs to City Council. Favorite quote, from Verizon spokeswoman Sharon Shaffer: “After a deliberative process that began in June, Verizon and the city have negotiated an outstanding agreement [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 4:30pm EST
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• Rumblings: Wishing You The Blackest Of Fridays

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  >>>In addition to Santa’s weeks-long crawl across West Philadelphia on the bus (and we hope that he will be just as filthy, drunk, and salmon-eating as Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places), tomorrow SEPTA will bring its Santa Express trains on a collision course to The Gallery, to kick off what [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 1:43pm EST
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• Media Expert: Trust Me, Dude, 35 Reporters Covering All Of Philadelphia Is Totally Enough

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  Jeff Jarvis is a fairly interesting guy, even if he’s often criticized as jumping on every single new media bandwagon. Former TV critic, founder of Entertainment Weekly, chief drumbeater of blogging and new journalism models for what feels like forever (hey everybody, can we find some other media experts to [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 1:10pm EST
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• So That’s Where You’re Spending That Money You Charged Me To Use Another Bank’s ATM

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  We have come to the realization that we may have chosen the wrong line of work. Fun? Sure. Personally rewarding? Often, yes. Free stuff? Man, we love free stuff. But the prospect of getting a chunk of the $98 million in severance pay that’s lined up for ten Wachovia execs [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 3:53pm EST
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• Rumblings: Your Media World

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  >>>…is changing! CN8 is finally closing up shop, firing a few hundred people, and implicitly yielding that they suck, which you already know. Didn’t they already fire everybody, like, forever ago? Anyway, we’ll be getting “The Comcast Network.” The extra-localized public affairs programming will probably be too small-potatoes for Ed [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 2:05pm EST
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• Noontime Nuggetz: Hobo Fights Are So 2005

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  It’s all about Baby Fights in ‘08! PHILLY BABY FIGHTS! [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 1:01pm EST
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• Fun With Public Records: Post-Election Edition

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  Hi boys and girls! Did you know that when you give money to your favorite candidates, it’s not like voting, which is secret (mostly)? We can totally find out who you gave it too. Opensecrets.org is our favorite resource, as they have a good search function. And if you want [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2008, 11:15am EST
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• Musical Rumblings: Free, Scary, Rumors, Gurgling

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  >>>In advance of their record release party at Johnny Brenda’s on Friday, The Mural And The Mint is giving away their debut full-length album “Private Pockets.” But like Radiohead, they’ll take your money if you want to give it. [MuralandtheMint] >>> Strangely compelling video from The New Time’s Halloween show at [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2008, 3:38pm EST
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• 99.999999999% Likely That The Roots Will Become Jimmy Fallon’s House Band

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  A couple weeks back you might’ve heard about The Roots shooting a promo in Philly (at Kung Fu Necktie) for Jimmy Fallon’s show that’s slouching towards late night to be born. But oh, there may be more. Supposedly (we haven’t seen it) NahRight.com had video of ?uestlove giving up the goods [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2008, 1:36pm EST
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• They Look…And Feel…Human

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  Do you watch Battlestar Galactica? Even if you don’t like science fiction TV, the show does what the best sci-fi does: give perspective on our crazy-ass world by reflecting it through the future-mirror. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can catch a pretty great eight-minute recap of the first few [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 3:46pm EST
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• Noontime Nuggetz: “New Improved JFK On The Way”

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  We feel the need to take the Nuggetz national today. From Nas’s “Untitled” album this year - a user-created video for “Black President.” [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 1:02pm EST
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• Don’t Forget To Vote For Joe Biden For Senate

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  Man, we almost forgot - you Delaware voters out there, you probably remember this, but if not: Senator Joe Biden is up for reelection! The most recent poll from SurveyUSA - yes, they sound like a fake company, but they are real - has Biden up 66-32 over somebody that [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 12:54pm EST
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• We Hope These Guys Are Right

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  If you didn’t know it before, you know it after the financial news of the past couple of months - traders will trade freaking anything, regardless of whether it’s real. Intrade helps them feed their mighty gambling addiction through “prediction markets.” Nonetheless, we are praying to Jeebus that the invisible hand [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 11:56am EST
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• We Have Found The Anti-Tierney, And We (Sniff) Think We Just Might Love Him

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  So the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader endorsed Barack Obama on Sunday. Big deal, right? Who hasn’t? Editor and Publisher says that at least 46 papers that endorsed Bush in 2004 have flipped to the not-totally-irresponsible side of the aisle, endorsing Obama this year. But the editor and publisher of the Times Leader, [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
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• Rumblings: Land Of Confusion

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  Yeah, we did just title a post after the 1986 Genesis hit from Invisible Touch. Which, regardless of what you think, is freaking awesome. Don’t you remember the video? Watch that shit now! But really, Pennsylvania is a strange and wonderful and terrible and confused place: >>>Remember when Congressman John Murtha [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
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• Bruce Springsteen Fires Halloween

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  Say it ain’t so, Boss! (Seen here in costume as Guitar Jesus.) The Associated Press, and therefore everybody else reports that on his website, he’s announced that the annual Springsteen Halloween extravaganza is no more. No word on whether he has also fired tonight’s World Series Stub Game (could you [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
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• Rumblings: Thievy Thievy!

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  >>> Opening statements in Vince Fumo’s trial started this morning. Our new theory is that Other People’s Money is our money, so can you lend us money to cover what’s sure to be a World Series-sized bar tab tonight? We promise Other People will pay you back. [Philly.com live blog] >>>We [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2008, 3:28pm EDT
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• Wachovian Process

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  Did you know that the 2007 gross domestic product of Estonia is smaller than the amount of money that Wachovia lost last quarter? U.S. News & World Report offers up 5 things smaller than Wachovia’s loss - including the price of replacing their sign at the Wachovia Center. And in [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2008, 2:23pm EDT
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• Department of Impending Economic Doom: Get Your Money Right Edition

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  So there was this item in the Philadelphia Business Journal about how Businessweek and The Reinvestment Fund think that Philadelphia is well-prepared to ride out the likely recession. Looking at their Philly page, we can accept that what employment is here is actually pretty stable. But doesn’t it seem that [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 3:46pm EDT
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• Confirmation: Tierney Is A Putz

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  Former Inky columnist Tom Ferrick wrote on WHYY’s “It’s Our City” blog today that sources in that paper’s editorial board tell him that - prepare to be shocked - Tierney did indeed demand they publish their dissenting endorsement of McCain. Normal practice, Ferrick says, is for the board to examine [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 2:58pm EDT
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• Rumblings: I Want To Ride It Where I Like

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  >>>Penn’s putting up bike racks inside parking garages at 34th & Chestnut, 38th & Walnut, and 40th & Walnut. So if you end up over there for something or other, you can stash your bike under cover, unless Penn kids steal all the slots. [Daily Pennsylvanian] >>>Another possible solution to never [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 1:40pm EDT
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• Rumblings: Big Brother Report

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  We got cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard, we got cameras on street lamps (see those flashing blue LEDs above? That’s police cameras), but we don’t have Phascism quite yet, and cameras are always a mixed bag (see our first item). So let’s turn our attention to a bit of loosely linked [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2008, 4:09pm EDT
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• This Evening: Get Wet

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  The Phillies are up 3-0, Hamels is racking up Ks, it’s damp outside, and you’ve made hot toddies. Why would you go anywhere else? Sadly, neither the game nor the toddies are gonna last forever, so off with the sweatpants, on with the fly gear, and out the door: >>>If you [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 4:40pm EDT
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• Dramaaaaa

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  Being the responsible mongers and promoters of free stuff that we are, we’d be remiss not to mention in advance that the Free Night of Theater 2008 is coming up on October 16. Some of the shows are already sold out, but check with the Theater Alliance site to see [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 4:09pm EDT
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• Department Of Impending Economic Doom Might Cost You The Election: Jim Gerlach Edition

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  Two years ago, Rep. Jim Gerlach of the 6th Congressional District was the only one of three area Republicans who withstood serious threats to their seat (Patrick Murphy dispatched Mike Fitzpatrick, and Joe Sestak finally put down the remarkably resilient Curt Weldon). Gerlach narrowly, narrowly defeated Lois Murphy, whom he [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 3:41pm EDT
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• Futurecar Arrives!

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  Thou shalt covet thy neighbor’s car. From tomorrow through October 16, train geeks and suburbanites alike can check out the Silverliner V at 30th Street Station. Cruel tease public ceremony tomorrow at noon. Unfortunately, they won’t be in service until 2009, but the cars can help us imagine our glorious [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 2:23pm EDT
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• 89.1% Of Philadelphians Agree: Phillies Win!

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  Philly.com polls are kinda silly, but at least they’re offering us position-by-position matchups to help us obsess over and manage our fears all at once. Also, at 3 pm, we’ll be checking your predictions, Philadelphia, as will everybody else in town. You think any work is getting done this afternoon? [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 1:54pm EDT
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• Noontime Nuggetz: Let’s Get It On

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  Whoa - the title, “The Perverted Puppet Peepshow,” explains it all. Possibly NSFW, depending on your company’s policy on puppet porn. It’s like live-action Meet the Feebles, minus the ultraviolence. [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
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• Demise Of New York Sun Reminds Us That Evening Bulletin Is Still Laboriously Breathing

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  Today is the last day of the New York Sun; editor Seth Lipsky says goodbye. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the paper (which given its abysmal circulation numbers, are legion), the Sun was a well-written and unapologetically neoconservative rag that revived a legendary name in the newspaper [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
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• Noontime Nuggetz: Exit Light

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  Apocalyptica delivers “Enter Sandman” last night at TLA on four cellos and a drum kit; sing-along begins at about 0:25. [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 1:08pm EDT
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• Oh God, We Can’t Help Ourselves

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  Hey Dan Gross! Alycia Lane is suing you. And your corporate overlord. And Larry Mendte and CBS3 and blah blah blah. Did you conspire with Mendte? Was your price merely a look at the bikini pics? Sigh. In what we hope is (but know could never be) the final [...] [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 3:38pm EDT
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• Uncyclopedia: WTF???

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  Teetering between genuine humor and weird racial tension, heeeeeeere’s Philadelphia! Wait, no, it’s the Uncyclopedia entry on Philadelphia. Today, we came across this for the first time. Uncyclopedia is a humor wiki, which, as the phrase “humor wiki” implies, veers wildly between some things that are actually quite funny, and [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 10:33am EDT
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• Rumblings: Bidness

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  >>> Saxby’s to buy Bucks County Coffee Co. chain; wants to make their coffee less shitty, but makes no promises. [PhillyBurbs] >>> McGillin’s gets a writeup in Gourmet as one of the coolest bars in America, will trick new Philadelphians into getting construction jobs and then loaded at 11:30 am. [Klein] >>> [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 10:28am EDT
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• Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To Ice Cube Tomorrow

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  HI RAP FANS! Want to see if Ice Cube can still tear shit up? (Hint: He so totally can.) Peep the video for “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” - we’re pretty sure that most of philly.com’s commenters send their kids to that crypto-Nazi school. Black Landlord opens to lend [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2008, 3:45pm EDT
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• Some People Using Their Noodle

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  Rock the Vote! is coming to Philadelphia, as it must. Tomorrow, Community College of Philadelphia is hosting the Rock the Vote! Road Trip, delivering Talib Kweli, Solange (Knowles, that is), and Nikki Jean. It’s free, from 3 to 5 pm. We do love ourselves some Kweli. But we have questions: Why [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 3:11pm EDT
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• Go Steagles!

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  A reader gave us this heads up about Steeladelphia, apparently some sort of bizarre yinzer rally. We must point out that if you attend, you can win a trip to Jacksonburgh (sic), Florida, which is what Jan Stankowski calls fake-palm-tree-adorned and Astroturfed piece of alley behind his Oakland rowhouse. You [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 3:07pm EDT
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• Philly House Share

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  Adding to the Philly Car Share saga, it’s come to our attention that Clayton Lane needs a roommate. The digs sound nice, but what about your future roomies? Well, Craigslist is just a surprising trove of information today: Roommates: We’re a laid back, independent, and creative bunch. We occasionally cook or [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 3:04pm EDT
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• Three Words: South. Jersey. Idol.

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  In our interns’ desperate attempts to find gigs that might pay them in currency besides Vitamin Water, sometimes they dredge up great absurdities of our time: 98.1 WOGL Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s, is looking for performing arts professionals to judge this year’s “South Jersey Idol” contest, where [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 1:47pm EDT
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• Bidens Demand Serenity NOW! At Linvilla Orchards

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  Check out [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 1:42pm EDT
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• This Evening: Everything Good In Life Is Free (Or Sold Out)

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  >>>Go see Sweeney DJ at The Barbary tonight - it’s $15, but you also get to see some band called Clap Your Hands Say Yeah give a semi-secret preview of their new shit. Oops, sold out. So is another show they got planned for the 30th, so hustle your contacts [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2008, 4:50pm EDT
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• America Thinks You’re Not Very Nice

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  It’s that time of year: summer’s ending, your month-long hangover is about to begin, so you pull on your sweatpants and climb under your comforter with a pile of - shock of shocks - print publications. Advertisers know this all too well, as do editors. So they get their symbiote [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2008, 4:08pm EDT
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• Rumblings: White Ethnic Report

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  >>> The Columbus Day Parade is threatened, because the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development nixed their $40,000 funding. Anna Verna’s office says that the Columbus Day Committee failed to file a report on how they spent that money, hence the denial. Not that we’re implying a connection here, [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2008, 2:27pm EDT
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• True or False: College Republicans Really Want To Be College Klansmen

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  What’s up with the GOP folks this year pushing the boudaries of racism until somebody slaps them back into their places? Remember that story about the Pemberton Republican Club in Jersey posting the “Obama Loves America Like O.J. Loves Nicole” banner online? We think we found an intern for them. [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2008, 4:03pm EDT
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• Comcast Appeals Ruling That Has No Effect On Them

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  It comes as no surprise that Comcast is appealing last month’s FCC ruling that the cable company was illegally blocking peer-to-peer file sharing. Following the popular pioneering strategy of those who believe the rules just don’t apply to them - President Bush, Jersey drinkers in Old City - Comcast basically [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
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• Shemalevicki Wants You To Know That She Doesn’t Like Philly Much But Loves To Make Her Money

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  Sometimes when trolling for Noontime Nuggetz we uncover things that can only be described as ricockulous. Possibly ridonkulous. Today we learned that Philadelphia YouTube channels include the Archdiocese, Philly Fringe (well, from ‘06, anyway), and…trailers for a few of Philly’s sex workers. So, what’s the story with YouTube ads for [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
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• The Philebrity Index: For Sale

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  Number of former Masterpiece Theatre hosts whose bodies were sold for parts by Louis and Gerald Garzone: 1 Cost on StubHub today of a President’s Club Suite for the Eagles’ opener against the Rams on Sunday: $20,589 Minimum amount that Sweeney could get for his iPhone if he could only get the [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2008, 1:19pm EDT
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• Rumblings: Uh! Good God, Y’all

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  >>>War War: Did you see this? The Army opened up a fancy arcade at Franklin Mills. We’re going up there this weekend to play the “Learn How To Care For My Iraq War Vet Fiancé Who Came Back Missing A Right Leg, A Left Arm And A Colon” simulator. We [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2008, 10:26am EDT
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• Sprint To Follow Earthlink And Break Our Wireless Hearts

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  It looks like WiMax is coming to Philadelphia sooner rather than later in the form of a Comcast-Intel-Time Warner Cable-Google-Bright House Networks-backed Sprint-Clearwire merger (whatnow?), if all goes well with their network in Baltimore. Pardon our doubts, but following the Earthlink collapse, and considering that Comcast has offered rather spotty [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2008, 3:20pm EDT
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• Musical Rumblings: So You Wanna Be Hardcoooore

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  >>>M.I.A. was all “nobody loves me so maybe I’m going to do something else” after this year’s Bonnaroo. But remember how when you were at the movies a few weeks ago and were like, “Is that ‘Paper Planes’ playing in the background of this Pineapple Express trailer? How strange!” [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2008, 2:30pm EDT
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• Freaking Huge Words To Conquer Chinatown

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  Hey, the schedule for the Megawords storefront is up! For those of you who’ve never picked up an issue, Megawords is an experimental paper heavy on graphics and visual narrative put out by Anthony Smyrski and Dan Murphy, which we’d like to see a little more frequently. But they also [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2008, 2:05pm EDT
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• Evening Bulletin: “We’re Still Desparate”

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  The reborn Evening Bulletin has always rather been on the absurd side of ridiculous. We guess since the Inquirer hasn’t come packaged with the hearts of Communists (we would eat them to gain our enemies’ strength) since the Annenberg years, there hasn’t been enough red meat journalism (read: saber-rattlers who [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
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• Tyler School Of Art Moving To North Philly, Pledges To Cut More Glory Holes

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  There’s this big article today in the Inquirer about the Tyler School of Art finally moving its lazy ass from Elkins Park down to the main campus after twenty years of dithering. This should be good for Temple, because art kids, while sometimes ultra-irritating, tend to give a bit of [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 1:33pm EDT
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• Somebody Needs A Comments Policy

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  Remember last week’s Philadelphia Weekly article about how awesome Southwest Philly is becoming? In all fairness, writer Tara Nurin’s piece did report on some good things that are happening in a rough, rough part of town, but her headline and subhed positioned the article as something it wasn’t quite. So [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2008, 3:38pm EDT
  by NickG

• Christmas Is A Rain Of D-Cells

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  The Florida Marlins remind us a bit of the Philadelphia Athletics, what with the World Series victories, shockingly poor attendance, and deliberate team dismantling. But perhaps unlike the Athletics players, the Marlins have been looking forward to coming to town (and not just because of the hurting they put on [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2008, 9:40am EDT
  by NickG

• Things We Learned Or Remembered About Jack Kelly Yesterday

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  When we learned yesterday afternoon that two people very close to Councilman Kelly - chief of staff Christopher Wright and former campaign treasurer Andrew Teitelman are allegedly crooked, we thought, “NO!… NOOOOOO!” Councilman Kelly, we’re sure, is involved in funny stuff - but only of the humorous variety! How do [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2008, 9:37am EDT
  by NickG

• Tonight: Crime-Biting

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  National Night Out and National Town Watch are projects that make us feel good, for the most part, and today is NNO’s 25th Anniversary. In a city without a lot of foot patrols by police, and with a fair amount of tension between police and residents (both in relative fancy-town [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 2:31pm EDT
  by NickG

• Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To See CSS

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  Remember when they toured with Diplo and Bonde do Role back in ‘06? If you missed it, you get another chance to shake it with fine-lookin’, fun-music-playin’ CSS and wallow in (or celebrate, depending) self-referential hipsterist lyrics Thursday night at the Troc. We have a pair of tickets to facilitate [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 12:35pm EDT
  by NickG

• This Evening: Come to the Islands

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  >>>There’s a Fishtown twofer with the crew of Mambo Movers tonight. In case you, like cave-hidden Osama or active senior John McCain, have been out of touch for a long, long time, Mambo is well-known as the home of itinerant artsy/hip boys from our fair city, who will move you [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2008, 5:09pm EDT
  by NickG

• Real World: West Philly, Teach/Sleep With Penn Kids Edition

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  This is the true story of two artists picked to live in a house. Find out what happens when artists stop being polite. And start getting real. And teach Penn kids. If they have previous teaching experience. And so it goes with the Kelly Writers House/Penn School of Design “ArtsEdge” [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2008, 1:56pm EDT
  by NickG

• Casinos, L&I. L&I, Casinos.

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  Casino Wars are just blowing up this week. Mayor Nutter weighs in with a letter to Vince Fumo and Dwight Evans (and cc’d to about 8 billion other people) that, in his typically modest and polite way, informs them that if the casino sites don’t move, perhaps L&I will (sort [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
  by NickG

• Rumblings: That’s Not Annoying

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  >>> Something hateful’s in the air: According to some New Jersey Republicans, “Obama Loves America Like O.J. Loved Nicole”. One word for that - KKKlassy! [Inquirer] >>> Two more words: Tony Homo. [PhiladelphiaWillDo] >>> And now we’re gonna have to pay to take out the trash, too. Sigh. [Inquirer] [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2008, 10:31am EDT
  by NickG

• Casino-Free Philadelphia Still Wants Casinos at Least 150 Ten-Foot Poles Away; Casinos Tell Philly Where to Stick Poles

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  With the city’s ongoing Casino Wars being, well, ongoing, Casino-Free Philadelphia just dropped an open letter (PDF here) on the “resiting committee” –- an ad hoc group consisting of Mayor Nutter, Governor Rendell, State Rep. Dwight Evans, and the trying-to-go-out-like-a-hero State Sen. Vince Fumo. Hoping against hope that this legalized gambling [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
  by NickG