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This breaking news just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Joey Vento is still an asshole. Yes, that's right, our favorite grease-slinging dipshit (oh, and he sells soggy cheesesteaks, too) was back in the news this week. This time, he wasn't bitching about his court victory (which earned him Asshole of the Week a couple weeks back). No, instead, he was joining the clusterfuck debate about what went down in the campaign leading up to this week's Pennsylvania primary. In Joe's case, he was actually bitching about what didn't go down in the campaign, namely that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama got a cheesesteak from Geno's. (Clinton got a chicken cheesesteak at Boccella's in Conshy, while Obama went to Pat's. We're sure Vento loved that.)

  • And the winner for pointless press conference of the week goes to...Michael's conference to encourage the city to support the Sixers and Flyers in their playoff runs. Oh, and the Schuylkill Expressway is being relabeled as "I-76ers" for the playoffs. Isn't that cute?
  • We're sure you'll be missing these, now that the Primary is over.

  • The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced yesterday that it had finally raised the last chunk of money needed to keep Thomas Eakins' iconic painting The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia.
  • Author’s Note: I hate to be on the losing side. I think this covers me regardless of the PA Primary results.

  • Philadelphia traffic judge Willie F. Singletary, 28—who a year ago had his driver's license suspended through 2011 for owing $11,427 for 55 traffic violations—is now in trouble again. The state Judicial Conduct Board issued a complaint against him yesterday, charging him with five counts of misconduct for soliciting campaign donations from the Philadelphia First State Road Rattlers Motorcycle Club.
  • Yesterday, the city was humming with national media and energetic supporters of Clinton and (mostly) Obama.


    Ten more photos after the jump.

  • Of course, a far more important vote already happened this past weekend: the vote to decide the best Philly cheesesteak. The winner, by a slim margin, was John's Roast Pork of South Philadelphia.
  • What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

    Usually I can muster a good chuckle at the tendency of the mainstream media to trumpet shock over substance in its campaign coverage, but last night's debate only made me angry. Here's why: watching them with me was a bona-fide undecided voter, the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time.

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