AIGA wants your animated gifs

The AIGA has put out a call for all of your oldest-school stuff for an awesome-sounding exhibit in April, linked with Philly Tech Week: Are your old-school Flash projects and animated GIFs just not getting the love they deserve? Well…

Charter CEO gets three years for stealing from his school

According to a tweet from NewsworksWHYY’s Holly Otterbein: Masai Skief, former CEO of Philly’s Harambee charter school, is sentenced to 3 years in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) February 10, 2014 Guess that “continuing…
- Feb 10, 2014 - 10:09 am
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Beet juice a superior ice-melter to rock salt, says councilman

Meghan Murphy/Smithsonians National Zoo via Flickr Creative Commons City Councilman Jim Kenney says that the way Philly handles de-icing the streets primarily with rock salt, which the city budgeted nearly a million dollars for this year is dangerous,…
- Feb 10, 2014 - 9:45 am
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Crown Prince Emperor El Bey Bigbay claims chieftainship of confused tribe

Wikimedia Commons Awesome story in today’s Daily News by Jason Nark, who consistently does right by the “weird stuff in South Jersey” beat as well as half a dozen others. Today, it’s Crown Prince Emperor El Bey Bigbay, a guy who…
- Feb 7, 2014 - 5:00 am
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Mumia’s lawyer one step closer to DOJ despite Senate freakout

Debo Adegbile was nominated to run the Department of Justice’s civil rights unit, and yesterday he appears to have gotten past the last thing standing in the way of his approval by the Senate: Mumia Abu-Jamal. Adegbile, while working for…
- Feb 7, 2014 - 4:42 am
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PW puts local musician with suspicious number of Twitter followers on cover

Last weeks Philadelphia Weekly cover story was a long and strange profile of singer-songwriter Jordan White. The cover proclaims Jordan White: For a guy whos not a rock star yet, he sure has a lot of fans. Inside, the headline:…
- Feb 6, 2014 - 8:19 am
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PW puts local musician with suspicious number of Twitter followers on cover

Last weeks Philadelphia Weekly cover story was a long and strange profile of singer-songwriter Jordan White. The cover proclaims Jordan White: For a guy whos not a rock star yet, he sure has a lot of fans. Inside, the headline:…
- Feb 6, 2014 - 5:57 am
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PW puts local musician with suspicious number of Twitter followers on cover

Last weeks Philadelphia Weekly cover story was a long and strange profile of singer-songwriter Jordan White. The cover proclaims Jordan White: For a guy whos not a rock star yet, he sure has a lot of fans. Inside, the headline:…
- Feb 6, 2014 - 4:46 am
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Vice praises Philly punk scene, must point out that Philly still blows

The photo of the Menzingers in this screenshot is by Rachel Del Sordo. Brooklyn person Dan Ozzi, of Vice’s new music offshoot, Noisey, loves Philly! So much so that he did a roundup titled “Philadelphia has the best punk scene…
- Feb 4, 2014 - 1:10 pm
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OH THE ZOO-MANITY

Things that have been said in the City Paper offices in the five minutes since we became aware of the demise of the Zooballoon, which broke under the weight of the recent snowfall: Oh, the zoo-manity! Oh, the hu-manatee! What’s the word…
- Feb 4, 2014 - 9:44 am
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