Results tagged “shooting”

• Philly drivers rank among the worst in the country. Surprised?
• A teenager was killed last night while walking his dog in Darby. Police believe the shooting was random.
• The facility where a man plunged to his death in a vat of chocolate yesterday may not be up to code.

• Gary Kao, the radiation oncologist responsible for nearly 100 prostate cancer patients at the VA Hospital receiving excessive or insuufficient doses of radiation, has taken leave from Penn's med school.
• A man was charged today in the June 14th shooting of a city police officer.
• Fox News Philadelphia aired a disgusting segment on an army of cockroaches overtaking a block in Camden.

• One-day Eagles tickets will be available tomorrow morning at 10am. Good luck!
• The Capogiro at 13th and Sansom is now closed due to a fire that occurred this morning.
• The latest local stimulus check recipient is the Philadelphia International Airport, which is getting $26 million to improve bagage screening.

• This morning's crazy storm is expected to return later in the day... just in time for rush hour!
• Police have caught the 59-year-old man suspected of robbing a Center City bank yesterday.
• A man was shot 25 times in South Philly last night.

First off, we'd like to congratulate former Asshole of the Week winner Jocelyn Kirsch, collected her official prize for all her Asshole-worthy (and illegal) activities—a 5-year prison sentence. Congratulations, Jocelyn! And now, onto this week's Asshole...

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The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. A nativity scene becomes a LARP battle in this incredibly nerdy video that may just be the best thing ever. Or at least the geekiest Christmas ever. Oh, and did we mention it's called IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR? (Via Sarah) AOL Food has a list of the top 11 things that taste great with bacon. And that's a...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You know what your cat needs? A wig! Ah, the internet and its fascination with doing strange and terrible things to cats... (Via) Dude, a dinosaur mummy. Scientists have found the remains of a hadrosaur that have been mummified by a natural fluke of time and chemistry. It's one of only five dinosaurs to be found in this...

The Inquirer takes a closer look at the Philadelphia policeman who was shot the day before the shooting of Chuck Cassidy, by a gunman who then fled and ultimately drowned in the Schuylkill. They also put the incident in the larger context of criminals in Philadelphia getting released from jail only to commit more crimes and be arrested again, over and over. Meanwhile, another Philadelphia police officer was injured this weekend, this time by...

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Do you want to see a music video for the Gilbert & Sullivan version of "Baby Got Back?" Of course you do. (Via Sarah) Wow - turns out officer Chuck Cassidy and his shooting are the subject of an urban legend/email forward that already made it onto Snopes. (Via Debbie) Harmonix will send you a replacement for your busted Rock Band guitar if...

Two separate laws aimed at making most government records public by default are making their way through the state legislature. The House bill, which was approved by a committee yesterday, is stronger than the bill that was passed by the Senate yesterday, 48-1. Another day, another shooting in Philadelphia. Two officers responding to a call about a man causing a disturbance in West Philadelphia early yesterday morning chased the man into an alley, where he...

First, some updates on stories we linked to yesterday: the Inquirer has the unsettling details and about the shooting of a 5-year-old boy early yesterday morning, and how it connects with other recent incidents of violence in the city. As for the Turnpike shutdown, it lasted six hours, causing a ripple effect of traffic jams on adjacent roadways and stranding hundreds of motorists at the height of morning rush hour. The judge in the...

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. As we did in our news post, let's get all the holiday-related stuff out of the way first: just in time for Thanksgiving, Cinematical finally announced the winners of their Halloween costume contest (definitely not our favorites, but we never got around to voting, so we guess it's our own fault). They also have a list of Seven Movie Characters They'd Hate to...

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The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Game|Life managed to get their hands on some early screenshots from the upcoming Ghostbusters video game. The winner of the Doritos Unlock Xbox Contest is Mike Borland's Dash of Destruction, the game where you run around as a T-Rex chasing a Doritos truck. And while we're talking contests, Scott Adams had one on his blog recently to choose...

The big news this morning in both the Daily News and the Inquirer is that two more Philadelphia police officers were shot last night "as they attempted to serve a warrant in a narcotics investigation in the city's Frankford section." This morning, a 16-year-old male has been arrested in connection with the shooting. The Inquirer has a bit of a preview of the major policy report PennPraxis will be unveiling tonight about the development...

The Inquirer takes another look at the troubling recent increase, both locally and nationally, in the shooting of police. Mayor Nutter, in his first speech outside the city since the election, as the keynote speaker at the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry's annual dinner, got a standing ovation before and after, and urged Southeastern Pennsylvania to come together and work as one to achieve greatness. Police are still investigating gunshots fired shortly before...

Oh, man. Did you see that Rick Santorum is writing an opinion column for the Inquirer now? Ugh. In vaguely related news, John Street's post-mayoral employment, beginning in January, will be at Temple University as a professor of urban politics and policy. Governor Rendell, who himself is an adjunct at U. Penn, encouraged Street to make the move. Officials responding to a report of a fire at a home in Upper Darby yesterday discovered...

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Werner Herzog's increasing popularity in this day and age is a little bit of a mystery to us. How can so many jaded urbanites—folks whose every word comes with air-quotes—venerate a passionate, nature-obsessed German madman who claims that "I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently." This year's mini-hit Rescue Dawn, for instance, was arguably the least cynical Vietnam movie since the John Wayne-starring The Green Berets, even if Herzog's hero, Dieter Dengler, played by Christian Bale, is obviously completely insane. As with Timothy Treadwell, the protagonist of Herzog's incredible documentary Grizzly Man, it's impossible to tell whether the film's a critique of Dengler's peculiarly American brand of grinning, maniacal persistence or an homage to it.

We are totally enamored of the accessories made by Jessica Evans, proprietor of In Hope: Readymade Cute. This crafty chick from Fishtown creates all kinds of accessories, from vinyl cuff bracelets adorned with flowers or cupcakes, to purses covered with octopus outlines or retro video game characters. We asked her what inspires her, and she told us it was whatever made her smile.

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just in time for Halloween, the Chocolate Jesus is back.

No bones about it: Simpatico Theatre Project's latest play, , is a weird show. And the timing of its production, although accidental, makes it weirder. This review is coming in late because I've been struggling with how to write a review of a dark comedy about a school shooting, when earlier on the day I saw the production, news of a school shooting in Ohio broke; the next day, one would be attempted in our own backyard. Because it is a comedy. A real comedy. The kind that makes the audience laugh out loud – first with the self-conscious knowledge that they shouldn't, and then with the mentality that "it's okay, everyone else is doing it, too."