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It looks like the Piazza at Schmidts is canning their $15 all-you-can-drink screenings of Phillies' games for the World Series, thanks to a shooting incident there during the Phightin's' NLCS win last week.
SEPTA is considering getting rid of the "R" train designations. They are taking many options into consideration, but are asking for input from riders and other stakeholders. The current system is difficult to understand for infrequent riders.
Especially art-related ones.
Note to self: posting a YouTube video of yourself waving a gun while threatening cops is not protected by the first amendment.
The Inquirer updates readers on the imminent eviction of the Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts chapter from their downtown headquarters. In response to what it deems discriminatory behavior by the organization against gays and atheists, the city recently required the group to pay a fair-market value of $200,000 in rent—up from $1 per year—in order to stay in the building it has occupied since 1937.
Chelsea Clinton was at Penn yesterday, stumping for her Mom, and said we should expect to see her and her family a lot in the near future. Which sounds like a threat to us. Beware, Philadelphians! They're coming! Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies! (BTW, in a related story, voter interest is surging in Pennsylvania suburbs.)
Also announced yesterday were the Franklin Institute awards; the Inquirer has a profile of one of the honorees. (Btw, did you see that the Franklin Institute is just calling itself "The Franklin" now? What's up with that?)
Mayor Nutter, along with the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia Youth Network, and WorkReady, have begun a campaign to lobby companies to fund at least 2,000 summer jobs this year. Nutter is set to start calling businesses today to pitch them the idea of hiring students for summer jobs, and says the city will increase the number of city government summer jobs by 100 this year.
The Inquirer is getting excited about the Philadelphia Flower Show, which will have a preview opening for selected guests tomorrow, and then open to the general public on Sunday.
"The traditional battle of the budget opens today with the first in a series of City Council hearings on Mayor Nutter's five-year plan."
Michael blasted Safe and Sound, the organization that Mayor Street had reallocated $75 million to in the twilight of his administration. Michael said Safe and Sound shouldn't have assumed they would get the money, because it wasn't designated to them in the city's budget, and you know what happens when you "assume." ZING! But he did pledge to work with Safe and Sound leadership to find more financial support for the organization.
Due to the fact that local schools had received recalled beef products through the National School Lunch program (products that were part of the largest recall of beef in US history, announced this past Sunday), the school system announced yesterday that all dishes made with beef will be taken off Philadelphia school menus. The district spokesman pointed out, however, that "the risk of children getting ill from this beef recall is negligible" and they "have not received any notification of a child being ill because of this beef recall."
Meanwhile, the Inquirer takes a closer look at a federal lawsuit filed by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, implicating Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, a Bush cabinet member.
David C. Sicoli, a Philadelphia priest with "a long history of abusive and manipulative relationships with adolescents," according to a grand jury report, has finally been defrocked by the Roman Catholic Church. No criminal charges were ever lodged against him. Numerous complaints were filed about his alleged misconduct with boys, however, and other priests warned about him, but the church continued to simply transfer him to different parishes, and even ended up naming him associate director of the CCD youth program for the entire Philadelphia area.
Saint Joe's will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5PM today to officially open its new Hawks' Landing parking and retail facility at 54th and City Avenue. Hawks' Landing is a $19 million project that features a five-story, 460-space garage, a new and expanded University Bookstore, and a Cosi restaurant underneath.
Next up in Milton Street's fraud trial: testimony today from a Vietnamese business owner that Milton supposedly cheated out of $80,000 for a share of a nonexistent airport subcontract.
The Daily News continues to desperately dig up any more tidbits they can find about infamous criminal couple Jocelyn Kirsch and Edward Anderton. This time they've got a story about how Kirsch talked to Prince Charles at an invitation-only panel last year at the International House.
In the wake of Super Tuesday, the Daily News and the Inquirer both take a look at how the candidates fared and what voter turnout was like in the area. The Daily News also reveals that the workers in the city commissioners office received over 400 calls from people who thought it was Election Day in Philadelphia, and who were trying to figure out why they couldn't find a polling place that was open. Um... wow.
Area artists, lingerie designers, the burlesque troupe Bawdy Girls, and avant-gardistes will gather tonight in Northern Liberties to begin a month-long online auction of eighteen "corsets for a cure," with proceeds going to Philadelphia's Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation. A raffle and prizes donated by area merchants will benefit Andrea Collins Smith of Fishtown, whose blog about her battle with cancer is widely read.
Mayor Nutter has tapped a Philadelphia native, and city planner who specializes in urban revitalization, to be the city's next commerce director and deputy mayor for economic development.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman has been selected to appear in the US Pavilion of the the 53rd Venice Biennale, "one of the most important art gatherings in the world."
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- Fees to access Philly.com are coming soon.
- In other news-related news, CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte is no longer under house arrest.
- A dogfighting ring was uncovered in Overbrook, and the bust revealed stashes of drugs and weapons.
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Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar.
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It's hardly newsworthy, but leave it to the Daily News to put a blurb out there that we just can't pass up. Jimmy Rollins was a guest on The Best Damn Sports Show Period when he was quoted as saying, of Philadelphia sports fans, "When you're doing good, they're on your side. When you're doing bad, they're completely against you."
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Phillyist reader James found these two outstandingly un-proofread headlines on philly.com over the weekend. The first, a spelling error, proves that Hooked on Phonics worked too well for somebody. The second has two words inverted—unless now-former Mets coach Willie Randolph has some sort of legal brief that needs a vacation. Neither error has been corrected—which begs the question: what does philly.com pay its editors to do, anyway?
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Put down the Pabst, folks, Philly Beer Week has officially begun. Beer enthusiasts and general tipplers alike can treat their palates to city-wide specials on Philly's numerous local craft brews and imports.
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On Saturday, members of the Philadelphia Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), set off to march twenty-five miles from the National Constitution Center to Valley Forge National Historical Park, "to show support for veterans and service members testifying at Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan," an IVAW event occurring in Washington, D.C. March 13-16. The event gets its name from a quote by Thomas Paine, who said that winter soldiers are those who stand up for their country even in its darkest hours, and will be an opportunity for veterans who served in both locations to give "an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground" in the Middle Eastern war zones.
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Philly sure can attract the celebrity. Yesterday Senator Hillary Clinton graced our fair walks to secure support from Governor Rendell and Mayor Nutter for her presidential bid. But her appearance pales in importance against the paragon of womanhood who is visiting us today. Yes, folks, that’s right: Paris Hilton is in town. Again. This time she’s not shilling perfume, but rather her new film The Hottie and the Nottie. Although it doesn’t get an official release for another couple of weeks, we think it is a shoo-in for a special honor on CinePhillyist, and we’ll place our bets on that now. Anyways, Ms. Hilton was on the 10 Show! this morning and will be visiting Franklin Mills Mall tonight from 6-7PM prior to the premiere of said instant-classic at the mall’s AMC. She’s not staying to actually watch it, since she’s not a masochist; it’s sadist all the way baby! Ronnie Polaneczky at the Daily News offers her some tips and history, much of which is interesting and thought-provoking. Especially the part about her getting a massage on one of the Minute Masseuse lounge chairs next to a feisty WWII vet. That’s Hot. (Oh, come on, you knew it was coming.)
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