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Ya’ll remember back in the day when the Sixers were cool? In fact, the hierarchy of Philly Sports used to rank the them the third coolest team behind the Kelly Green Eagles, and of course the Phillies. That was back when they were hotter than the Flyers and well before Bon Jovi tried to poison [...]. (Read More)
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As this film shows, even in 1947, people throughout the rest of the country regarded Philly as an unrepentant cesspool. Dig the bargain-basement James Mason narrator, too. From the utterly amazing Travel Film Archive, which also gave you yesterday’s mindblowing nugget. Dig that boy-versus-rat fight at 3:45!. (Read More)
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Put on your helmets, people: The ride is about to get bumpy. After yesterday’s controversial news regarding a slew of new fines and regulations for bicyclists being proposed by City Council, The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia has issued a formal statement on the matter. Their take? The new regulations would be ei (Read More)
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Dave Roberts, who’s been piling on the foundation and anthropomorphizing clouds since you were in short pants, will do his last broadcast on December 11th. Roberts joined the station in 1978 for the long-gone AM Philadelphia show, but he’s spent the bulk of his career doing weather. Action News did a nice little fare-thee-w (Read More)
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· I Am The Grog Master: The Official Phoodie.info Grog Recipe · It’s Vintastic Craptastic: Beaujolais Nouveau Arrives Spreads Today · Finally, A Crawl We Can Get Behind (But Don’t Get Behind Us, Just Trust): Nacho Crawl Philadelphia! · Jose Garces Is Totally Going To Win The Next Iron Chef · You Like-A De Sauce? Bart Blatst (Read More)
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So, because the Inky and its creditors are engaged in a byzantine battle over what ACTUAL MONEY is, the scheduled auction of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.’s media properties has been moved from its original date, which was to be held next week, to Dec. 15. Should the Inky, Daily News and Philly.com fall out of the [...]. (Read More)
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One of the most baffling things we’ve noticed on this site over the last year or so is just how much of hot-button issue anything to do with bicyclists in Philadelphia is. On one hand, the amount of bike-positive progress we’ve seen over the last few years in Philly has been something to behold; as [...]. (Read More)
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From The Travel Film Archive. We defy the folks at GPTMC to splice some 30-second spots out of this and put it on the air nationwide. (Read More)
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Oh, SEPTA The Hut, I mean, Willie Brown! Everybody knows that, in all likelihood, SEPTA is probably doing right by your pension — it’s you guys in the Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 with whom we’ve all got major trust issues. But whatever: Now that the strike is over, Brown and His Distinctly Un-Merry [...] (Read More)
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This just in: Philadelphia Business Journal is reporting that a federal judge in Denver has ordered Temple grads Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr (pictured) to halt operations of their Bala Cynwyd, Pa. company, Mantria Corp.. immediately, following an SEC investigation over whether the pair had bilked investors out of $30M via a (Read More)
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After a prompting from a commenter in yesterday’s “Double Dutch Bus” video post, here is a history lesson in the small role that Frankie Smith played in uncovering the “Yuppie Conspiracy” (dubbed as such by Federal authorities) run by Larry Lavin, West Philly dentist and $5M/175 lbs.-of-cocaine-per-month drug dealer (mug sh (Read More)
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Jennifer An, one of our own as well as one of the final four in America’s Next Top Model (Season 13), has been given the boot as of last night. If you haven’t been following this season, Tyra has been up to her typical unorthodox approach to models (they are all under 5″7) and they [...]. (Read More)
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OH MY GOD! DO YOU LOVE DOGS! WE DO! THIS WEEKEND IS THE KENNEL CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW OUT IN OAKS, PA! IT’S ALSO THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW, AND IT WILL BE ON TV ON THANKSGIVING! WHICH IS ALSO A GREAT TIME TO GIVE THANKS FOR DOGS! (I LOVE YOU, LOUIS, YOU CRAZY DINGO [...]. (Read More)
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The Center for Literacy will hold the first demonstration of it’s kind to bring awareness to the fact that that illiteracy in Philadelphia affects way more people than just Charlie Kelly. On November 20th, at high noon, the CFL and other volunteers from organizations and groups around the city will convene on 1401 JFK Blvd (Read More)
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GIMME A HO! IF YOU GOT YOUR FUNKY BUS FARE! From Wikipedia: “Double Dutch Bus” is a 1981 funk song by Frankie Smith, made famous for its extensive use of the “izz” infix form of slang. The song title represents a combination of two institutions in Smith’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood: the double dutch game of jum (Read More)
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