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Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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- • Breaking: Everyone loves Nutter, table games, City Council and Ramsey; hates Streets Department
- • City Paper announces Adopt-a-Box program!
- • From our favorite melodramatic forecasters …
- • Askadelphia. Question of the Day.
- • Breaking: Rendell rumored to be considering unilateral leasing of even more state forest for drilling
- • 66-million-year-old poop for sale in Philly, finally
- • How, exactly, does the lottery count as news?
- • SEPTA does one thing really well: Tweet
- • Askadelphia. Favorite Chinatown Restaurants?
- • Another death in Kensington
- • The Clog Weekend Omnibus: SNOWPOCALYPTIC WEEKEND!
- • Three quick questions on what makes Philadelphia world class/a cesspool
- • David Byrne on bikes, whore houses and crazy smart termites last night at ANS
- • Help the blizzard virgin
- • Is there a carbon monoxide leak in here or something?
- • Askadelphia. Question of the Day: Northeast Philly
- • Askadelphia. Question of the Day: Center City Tailor
- • Askadelphia. Question of the Day: Groundhog Day Edition.
- • Anti-Foreclosure Protest Held at Sixth and Market
- A&E Blog
- • THE CURATOR: James Cameron, lovely ladies, Philly's erotic art scene, charming doodles, 2010 Brain Olympics
- • THE SHOWDOWN: The sound of Charles Manson's nightmares
- • MAILBAG: Which of these trade paperbacks should I read?
- • Local comic artists bring vampires to South Philadelphia
- • USELESS LOST RECAPS: "LA X (Parts 1 & 2)"
- • MOVIE REVIEW: Cropsey
- • Project Runway: Episode 4, Heart-to-Heart
- • COVETED: Let me call you sweetheart
- • Ozploitation postponed at iHouse — UPDATED
- • Mariah Carey @ Tower Theatre, Feb. 1
- Meal Ticket
- • Philadelphia, Zagat wants YOU
- • The coolest thing about steakhouses...
- • NOW OPEN: Falafel Factory
- • A Bronx cocktail for gin-haters
- • Meet Marie "Lucky Porkchops" DiFeliciantonio, Team Meal Ticket's newest player
- • Feb. 16 the day for Garces Trading Company
- • Doc Watson's will become Sherlock's Tavern, but not right away
- • Eat ice cream to benefit Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- • Maru in Old City closes
- • Design a tee for Ultimo Coffee while you wait for Brew's liquor license to take
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- • The coolest thing about steakhouses...
- • NOW OPEN: Falafel Factory
- • A Bronx cocktail for gin-haters
- • Meet Marie "Lucky Porkchops" DiFeliciantonio, Team Meal Ticket's newest player
- • Feb. 16 the day for Garces Trading Company
- • Doc Watson's will become Sherlock's Tavern, but not right away
- • Eat ice cream to benefit Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- • Maru in Old City closes
- • Design a tee for Ultimo Coffee while you wait for Brew's liquor license to take
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- • Turkish Buttered Hummus : In the style of Zahav
- • Pub & Kitchen's Roll Mops : Recipe written and shared by Jonathan McDonald
- • Sweet Charity : Cathedral Kitchen is there for the needy — and the environment.
- • Down in the Dumplings : Pierogie-making is an art in the hills of Roxborough.
- • Who's Tommy? : South Philly food's cooking in the last place you might expect: Woody's.
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- • Daybreakers [C+]
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- • An Education [B]
- • Extraordinary Measures [D]
- • Fantastic Mr. Fox [A]
- • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus [B+]
- • It's Complicated [B+]
- • Leap Year [C-]
- • Legion [D+]
- • The Lovely Bones [C+]
- • Nine [C-]
- • Police, Adjective (Politist, adj.) [B-]
- • Sherlock Holmes [B]
- • A Single Man [B-]
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- • The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) [B]
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- • Youth in Revolt [A-]
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- • THE CURATOR: James Cameron, lovely ladies, Philly's erotic art scene, charming doodles, 2010 Brain Olympics
- • THE SHOWDOWN: The sound of Charles Manson's nightmares
- • MAILBAG: Which of these trade paperbacks should I read?
- • Local comic artists bring vampires to South Philadelphia
- • USELESS LOST RECAPS: "LA X (Parts 1 & 2)"
- • MOVIE REVIEW: Cropsey
- • Project Runway: Episode 4, Heart-to-Heart
- • COVETED: Let me call you sweetheart
- • Ozploitation postponed at iHouse — UPDATED
- • Mariah Carey @ Tower Theatre, Feb. 1
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- • One Small Step for Robots : A Drexel lab has big plans for its little humanoid.
- • Burn Notice : Brat Productions' The Bald Soprano is back and badder than ever.
- • People Who Died : 2009 Obituaries
- • Death By Oboe : Fiction Writing Contest '09 Winner
- • Top 21 Albums of 2009 : The best rock/pop/hip-hop albums of 2009
- • The Future is Now. : In 1959, planner extraordinaire Edmund Bacon imagined that in 50 years, "no part of Philadelphia is ugly or depressed." What does the next half-century have in store?
- • The Rehab Wars : Can a radical nun and a house full of junkies save Philadelphia from drug addiction?
- • Hack The Holidays : Your hands-on, screen-printing, bath-bombing, book-binding DIY gift guide.
- • A Voice For The Fallen : One man's quest to memorialize the 4,600 gay men who died of AIDS in Philadelphia.
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- • The Funky Homo Sapien : You can't put a dollar bill into a ballot box, can you?
- • Who Polices the Philadelphia Police? : They do. That's the problem.
- • Uh-oh : Beneath Pennsylvania's forests lies a treasure worth billions of dollars.
- • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes : Does Percy Street Barbecue's shipped-from-Texas concept translate to Philly?
- • Head Over Wheels : David Byrne on what'll make Philly a great bike city, once and for all.
- • Blahg Humbug : "I won't be happy if you print my name."
- • Feeding Frenzy : Restaurants opening, closing and pending
- • Not Just Good : Sonic Drive-In
- • Shopping Spree : Just Opened: Nice Things Handmade
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- • The early word on Philadelphia Chutney Company
- • NOW OPEN: Fat Salmon
- • The new Paesano's in pictures
- • "Green Hour" at Time, and Bar's opening
- • Bar definitely opening tonight; go get cans, hot dogs and Cup Noodles
- • What's new at Oyster House
- • VIDEO: Super Bowl Sunday hot dogs at Supper
- • Word on Xochitl's reconceptualization
- • Meet Marie "Lucky Porkchops" DiFeliciantonio, Team Meal Ticket's newest player
- • Matthew Levin takes over Coquette space
- Critical Mass
- • Snooki to appear at Wing Bowl!!!
- • Goodbye J.D. Salinger
- • THE CURATOR: naughty signs, jigger, Philagrafika 2010's newlyweds, stash book, lovin' Arcadia
- • THE CURATOR: V-day cards, passing some crystals, free drop caps, Q Love Fest, fugly company
- • Q&A with Ozzy Osbourne: "I ain't changing"
- • USELESS LOST RECAPS: "LA X (Parts 1 & 2)"
- • Local comic artists bring vampires to South Philadelphia
- • The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts announced
- • More on CineFest 2010's cancellation, and Philadelphia Film Fest
- • IDOL HANDS: American Idol, Denver auditions
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- • Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show
- • Help the blizzard virgin
- • From our favorite melodramatic forecasters …
- • Happy days are here again
- • David Byrne on bikes, whore houses and crazy smart termites last night at ANS
- • Another death in Kensington
- • SEPTA does one thing really well: Tweet
- • David Faris on SOTU: No-drama Obama returns
- • The week in mice: Your state government at work
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- • Da Comrade! : Wed., Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., $5, Power Animal and Niagara Falls, Kungfu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.
- • Writtenhouse : POSTPONED DUE TO IMPENDING SNOWPOCALYPSE Fri., Feb. 5, 7 p.m., $7, with Slick Mantra, Scanz, Ground Up and DJ Cliff Moore, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org.
- • Tape : Tue., Feb. 9, 8 p.m., $12, all ages, with Mountains, First Unitarian Church Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
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Where's the best sledding hill in Philly? (1 Answer)- Where can I sell off a bunch of antiques fast? It's a long story, but I have some jewelry, some vases, and some other stuff. I want to go sell them at a dealer and be rid of them. Any of you worked with a dealer you liked who gave what you felt were honest prices? (1 Answer)
- Cool vintage and thrift tees? give me places in or around philadelphia, cause i am running a t-shirt blog www.picklesandcoffee.com (1 Answer)
- I'm looking for a bang'n Chinese restaurant in Chinatown It needs to accommodate 15-25 people and be a good time for early people in their early 30's. No Karaoke. (10 Answers)
- Check scam consquences? I recently sold my daughters nursery furniture through an online auction. I was paid by cashiers check. I want to open an account and deposit the check, but i have been recently reading about check scams online... Im not sure that it is a fake check, but does anyone know what the consequences are if it does turn out to be fake??? (1 Answer)
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