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Fun around town, for $10 or less: Hop on the Ferry: Sunset Jazz Series presents Spyro Gyra at Wiggins Park (Mickle Street and Riverside Drive, Camden), 8Pm. Free Tuesday Night Raw: Comic Energy hosts the weekly standup and open mic at Tori’s (119 South), 9:30PM. $5 Look Up: Yoga with Kristin Shipler every Tuesday and Thursday at the Unitarian Society of Germantown (6511 Lincoln Dr), 6-7PM. $10 Saint Joan: Weekly free feminist film featuring The......

The Phlash Center City trolley will have special hours this Friday and Saturday to accommodate Independence Day celebrations. The Phlash will operate until 7PM on Friday and until 11PM on Saturday. (Via RJ) The Inquirer tells the story of how a plan to convert an empty convent in Germantown into apartments for formerly homeless men went south, in order to underscore the problems Mayor Nutter is likely to face with his initiative to fight......

The Inquirer profiles a Germantown clinic whose services are described as indispensable, but which may shut down soon due to a lack of funds. Suspended Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. testified yesterday in his ecclesiastical trial, trying to explain why he had not told anyone that his brother was sexually abusing a high-school student in the 1970s. A preliminary hearing was held yesterday for the five North Philadelphia teens arrested in the beating and......

The Daily News has a profile of the new Recreation Department commissioner, Sue Slawson, and is also talking about what Slawson and the Department of Human Services, amongst other organizations, are trying to do to boost programs and security in order to halt violence at the city's rec centers and neighborhood parks. Every year when the University of Pennsylvania's students go home for the summer, they leave a shocking amount and variety of appliances,......

Eric DeShawn Floyd, the third suspect in the murder of police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, was arrested last night when he was found sleeping in a boarded up rowhouse in Southwest Philadelphia at 11:10PM. He was unarmed and offered no resistance. Philadelphia police thus met their goal of capturing Floyd before Liczbinski's funeral. Meanwhile, the leadership of the Germantown Masjid has refused to conduct funeral services for Howard Cain, the bank robber who actually killed Liczbinski.......

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Looking back on a week's worth of local craigslist hijinks Tis the week of the missed connection! A little warm weather and everyone's got spring fever.. Could the impound lot be the new singles meet up? Sometimes you just don't know what you've got til it's gone, particularly when "it" is hairy guys in speedos or chicks dressed as E.T. It seems that the ladies at the Germantown Wawa have a thing for a certain......

Last Friday & the weekend: Michael's search for a new CEO of the Philadelphia School District got down to two contenders—apparently—after Temple College of Education dean Kent McGuire withdrew his name from consideration for the position. Monday: Michael's choice for city commerce director, Germantown-born Andrew Altman, was sworn in, as was Managing Director Camille Bates Barnett. And the worst-kept secret of Michael's early administration appointments became official, as he named Lori Shorr his chief education......