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THE DEBUNKER: Dammit, it is not 48% cheaper to buy than rent in Philly

Christine Ricks via Flickr Creative Commons So another study of dubious provenance seems to say that it’s 48% cheaper per square foot to buy an average house in Philly than to pay an average rent in Philly. Like, to the point where…

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  • ESSENTIAL LISTENING: A song built around Jeff Goldblum’s weird growl-laugh in Jurassic Park

    Sorry, we’ve just had this entrenched in our heads for 24 hours and felt it was only fair that you also have it stuck in your head. Some 19-year-old Australian calling himself FLIPSHOT made this song from a sample of…

    • Mar 4, 2014 - 1:14 pm
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  • Poor Fox 29 reporter engulfed by snow tsunami doesn’t miss a beat

    No snowstorm can go unremarked upon by a slew of TV news reporters in parkas standing by the side of the road to demonstrate that it is, indeed, crappy outside. Poor Steve Keeley of Fox 29 was out on one…

    • Mar 3, 2014 - 6:08 pm
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  • TONIGHT: Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton

    Tonight, PhilaMOCA’s screening the Philly premiere of Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, a documentary on Stones Throw Records. Featuring interviews with hip hop heavyweights KANYE WEST, SNOOP DOGG, QUESTLOVE, COMMON, MIKE D, J DILLA, DOOM, and many more, OUR VINYL…

    • Mar 3, 2014 - 8:44 am
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  • Rage, rage against the dying of the King of Jeans

    Photo by justindula via Flickr Creative Commons According to Albert Stumm at Passyunk Post, the King of Jeans’ fate was sealed at a zoning board hearing this afternoon: The Zoning Board of Adjustment granted the approval today during a rare…

    • Feb 26, 2014 - 7:03 am
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  • New Cut Copy video stars litte NextFab-made guys

    The video for Cut Copy’s new “We Are Explorers” was made with stop-motion animation; instead of doing it in the more familiar Wallace and Gromit or Nightmare Before Christmas style, with a couple puppets that change in miniscule ways, this video was done…

    • Feb 25, 2014 - 6:36 am
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  • Terrifying strangers with fake gun = super funny web comedy series

    You may recall some stories lately about a few guys in a truck who pointed a fake gun at a man and demanded his rock salt last week. According to the Daily News: He repeatedly asked the victim how much…

    • Feb 19, 2014 - 12:48 pm
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  • Woman injured in World Cafe Live stage dive gets $1.4 million

    A 46-year-old woman from New Jersey just won a big settlement for having her collarbone broken when the frontman of Fishbone jumped into the crowd from the stage of that well-known hardcore venue World Cafe Live, according to the AP: …

    • Feb 14, 2014 - 11:14 am
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  • PYT to spin off baby PYTs in NY, DC, other Philly hoods

    Soon, PYT will be clogging the arteries of other cities and other Philly neighborhoods with things like the above spaghetti burger — it’s becoming a chain and apparently has franchisees already lined up in New York and DC: PYT signed…

    • Feb 14, 2014 - 5:08 am
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  • Crazed-looking Fox29 reporter predicts ‘many, many, many fires’

    It may be from the time we got snow a week ago, but this video of Fox29’s Karen Hepp being very emphatic about the dangers of winter weather (“There will be fires!”), with a tone more suited to the sassy…

    • Feb 13, 2014 - 4:53 am
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