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- 2nd Annual Taste of Philly
The Franklin Institute
Wednesday, October 22 at 7:00pm - PW Concerts in the Park: Slo-Mo
Fieldhouse
Wednesday, September 10 at 7:00pm - PW Concerts in the Park: Bitte...
Rittenhouse Square
Wednesday, August 27 at 7:00pm - PW Weekly Concerts in the Park...
Rittenhouse Square
Wednesday, August 20 at 7:00pm
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He was a mentor, a storyteller, a fire-breather. He was more passionate than anyone we’ll likely come across again. Of course, you know this already. Because if you read his stuff, you know the man. Everything in his writing is everything he was in real flesh-and-blood life.
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Pardon me if I'm less than satisfied with the Rep. Chaka Fattah, and less than willing to assume he'll vote the right way on health care. It's very easy to say you're for this thing or the other, and quite another to actually act on those statements. In fact, in the past three years since the Democr...
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Our friend and colleague Steven Wells died Tuesday of the cancer he had documented so well in two cover stories for Philadelphia Weekly. On June 14, he submitted this column.
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Why are some Philly pools opening this summer while others are being closed? Will the "closed" signs spark turf wars throughout the city? And why can't City Hall use its brain to keep those pools open? Brendan Skwire tries to get some answers.
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Baptism by fire, shit storm, train wreck: These are the nice ways to describe the situation that Sue Cosby -- the new CEO of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- is hurling herself into. Earlier this week, Cosby talked with PW about her new role, her vision for the ci...
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Philadelphia Weekly is your local guide to news, reviews, arts, restaurants & dining, real estate, classifieds, multimedia, music and much more.
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Ulysses is as much Philadelphia as Dublin, fit for any underdog who’s ever been told he or his city is second-tier. Think Rocky with a doctorate, and tons more "Mickeys.” Get ready for Bloomsday with this Philly retelling.
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On the second Sunday in June, thousands gather in front of the Odunde headquarters on South Street to prepare for a mini ritual, at the Schuylkill River, in honor of the Yoruba goddess Oshun. Once the prayers are over the party begins, and Odunde (“Happy New Year” in the Yoruba language) turns int...
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For years Joe Pepe has fought tenaciously to hold on to his independence and stay out of nursing homes. He worked as an accountant and treasurer for a Philadelphia-area company, as a health insurance agent and then in the late ’80s got involved with the disability rights movement, worried that he w...
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Not many people get to make their living by biting the hand that feeds them. Will Bunch, it seems, is the exception to the rule. Bunch, 50, is a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News and -- perhaps more prominently -- the Attytood blogger who stirred a nationwide controversy when he criticiz...
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No, my excitement for Mr. Sestak stems primarily form the fact that T.J. Rooney, chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, has made it clear that he'd rather not have a primary AT ALL. As has Rendell and everyone else rushing to roll out the red carpet for Arlen. That’s right: Mr. Rooney thinks w...
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In the world of Philadelphia magic, Joe Grasso is quite literally the man upstairs. Just below the Old City apartment he shares with his wife, you’ll find a sanctuary for fire-eaters and escape artists. Grasso’s Magic Theatre is a speak-easy for prestidigitation.
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VIDEO: The chef at South Philly Tap Room shows us how to prepare pork cutlets, grilled asparagus and a caprese bruschetta -- all for $15.
The HPV Vaccine: Lifesaver or Russian Roulette? | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Week
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Jodi Speakman believes her daughter Victoria (pictured) was poisoned by Gardasil, the “HPV vaccine” manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc. just 40 miles away in West Point, Pa. Sitting at the living room table in her Northeast Philadelphia house—adorned with a curbside American flag and red-barn mailbo...
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Years ago, the survivalist, or the man carrying the banner reading, “THE END IS NIGH,” might have been dismissed as an eccentric. But what is surprising is the increasing number of Philadelphians who’ve come to share such fears. In December 2008, Fernando Salguero set up the survivalist meet-up grou...
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To lifelong Phillies fans, the transformation from “Doug Glanville, Centerfielder” to “Doug Glanville, New York Times” is hardly a surprise. Glanville took seriously every mother’s advice that education provides a safety net. He graduated from Penn with a degree in engineering. He’d written a few pi...
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Drug dealers do drive cars like this. And so do cops, garbage men, Philadelphia Eagles linebackers and barbers. The typical owner of a car like this is anybody who grew up poor in an American city, mostly African-American men but not exclusively, between the ages of 17 and about 45. They call their ...
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I have to admit: When I called Harold Jackson on Monday and asked him why the Philadelphia Inquirer keeps printing columns by torture memo author John Yoo, I expected something of a pro forma response — something along the lines of “We believe in vigorous debate from voices across the political spec...
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So the Philadelphia Union ticks the progressive box in the three great ideological struggles in American history: democracy vs. monarchy, capitalism vs. feudalism and labor vs. capital. Could we have chosen more righteous name?
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Of course it’s fun watching the disintegration of a political party that is—when all’s said and done—a coalition of the selfish, the stupid and the scared. But is this total meltdown good for democracy? I would argue that it is not. If there’s one thing that’s definitely worse than a two party syste...
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Davy Rothbart, editor and co-founder of the wildly popular FOUND magazine, has been on the hunt for wacky shit since early 2001 when he found a note mistakenly placed on the windshield of his car. Inspired by the small glimpse into another person’s life, Rothbart, along with pal Jason Bittner, began...
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In an era where the media appear to be falling apart, WalterFootball.com's Walter Cherepinsky just might be the future -- one of a number of Philadelphia-area entrepreneurs who are carving out a significant niche in cyberspace.
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Do we let the dog of socialist sodomy chew our hard-won bone of freedom? Or do we strip off, oil our bodies, grasp our opponents and—in the flickering torchlight cast by the anxiously onlooking Statue of Liberty—vigorously wrestle the homosexual agenda into gasping submission?
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Phillies' fans have been leaving memorials at Citizens Bank Ballpark for Harry Kalas, the club's longtime radio announcer who died Monday. PW's Michael Alan Goldberg captured a few of the tributes.
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He’s been named one of MTV’s “MCs to watch,” been put on the cover of XXL magazine, been knighted “the future” by Beanie Sigel, endorsed (“co-signed”) by Young Jeezy, Ludacris and Akon, joined on Asleep by heavy hitters like Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green and Busta Rhymes, added to the annual Roots P...
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By the time Alvarez was 18, he was rumbling on a regular basis. In those days, street fights were a popular pastime in Philadelphia’s roughest areas—Alvarez shrugs it off as something that guys just “liked to do”—and brawls spontaneously erupted throughout the city. Armed with a weekly paycheck and ...
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It all started in 1966, when Barnes shot rookie police officer Walter Barclay, then 21, who interrupted an attempted burglary. Barclay was paralyzed, and Barnes—also known as the East Germantown Cowboy—served more than two decades in prison for the shooting. It seemed like the end of the story. But...
No one condones police brutality but c'mon dudes,if know it's ... Read Moreillegal, don't skate there. Why don't y'all band together and come up w/ funds to build a skate park or three. There are ways around 'not legal'. Ask any pot smoker. And PW, if you need some ideas for a cover story, why not consult your loyal readers, we city dwellers? We'll help you out. Personally I want to know things like who's going to be putting on free concerts in the park this summer :-)