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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Photo by author. Just days before Live 8, in late June of 2005, the inimitable John Carroll, Phillyist's first editor, let the world know that Phillyist was live and online. Now five years, six months, three days, and nearly 13,000 posts later, it is my official duty to provide one last post for Phillyist. We've already explained our reasons for shutting down, both on our site and on others, and this post is not...
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Thanks for Four Years of Awesome
It was a (presumably) cold November day in 2006 when I made my humble debut on Phillyist with a post called Elevating My Frustration. It was about elevator etiquette. I've come a long way since then. I featured interesting Twitter users and hope some of them will follow us into the future at @keypulp. I wrote not one but two posts on the mysterious Toynbee tiles. The local sleuths who spent years investigating them...
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Snowventure along the Wissahickon
Photographed by: Julia Rowe
Wissahickon Creek
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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
Photo by Mikko Luntiala Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? The best from this week in the 215 blogosphere... Because this is the final installation of your local blog cheat sheet, we figured we'd make it a little longer, in order to include as many of the blogs we love as possible, and so that you can craft your very own Philly Google Reader of Awesomeness. There is never a shortage...
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5:365 Good Morning Snow! Photographed by: bennings89 Like to see your photo here? Submit it via the Phillyist Flickr Group!...
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Good Advice From a Bad Person
In which our Bad Person *tear* says goodbye.
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(Untitled) Photographed by: Julia Rowe Fairmount Park Like to see your photo here? Submit it via the Phillyist Flickr Group!...
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A Little Friendly Advice For Our South Philly Neighbors
As we make our way to work in the aftermath of yet another winter storm with no running buses, many of us will be digging out cars and braving the treacherous streets of Philadelphia. Later, upon returning home from work, far too many people will be faced with the reality that some a-hole stole their perfectly sculpted parking space during the day, forcing them to park presumably near the Sports Complex. But wait, says a...
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ArtIST: Mami Kato
Image Credit: Mami Kato, All Rights Reserved As this is Phillyist's last ArtIST post, we're pleased to be ending the series with artist Mami Kato. A Japanese citizen, Kato was born and raised in Japan before coming to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) on a transfer program. After moving back to Japan for a spell, she relocated to Philadelphia permanently eighteen years ago. For more...
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This Week In Philadelphia Theatre
Image Credit: alancleaver 2000 Love Lessons From Abu Ghraid, a one woman show that opens at Interact this week, looks pretty compelling. Opening Love Lessons From Abu Ghraib - Healing. Jan. 29 – Feb. 13. Tickets Uncle Vanya - Dysfunctional family? Jan. 28 – Feb. 13. Tickets The Fall of Troy: Troilus and Cressida and The Trojan Women - Euripides collides with Shakespeare. Feb. 3 – 20. Tickets Waiting for Lefty - Will he...
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Capogiro
Photographed by: cheshire smile eats (and drinks)
Center City
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The 2011 State of the Union
Under normal circumstances, we here at Phillyist post a video each day that in some way pertains to Philadelphia or its surrounding area. Since all that's really going on today is snow, snow, freezing rain, and more snow, we're going to go national instead and share last night's State of the Union address in its entirety, in case you missed it or wish to argue with your computer monitor a little more. Whether you're Democrat,...
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Introducing ... KeyPulp!
As we teased on Twitter yesterday and revealed to Technically Philly this morning, January 31 is not the last you'll be seeing of the Phillyist editors and staff. True, Phillyist won't be updated after 5:00 p.m. next Monday, but, as that song we got stuck in your heads last week goes: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." So, from the ashes of Phillyist rises a Phoenix we're pretty damn excited about:...
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Phillyist Reads... Eleanor Brown at Chester County Book & Music Company
Shakespeare fiends, this one's for you! Eleanor Brown, author of the new novel, The Weird Sisters, will be reading from and signing copies of the book tomorrow night at Chester County Book & Music Company. It's the story of the Andreas family — a Shakespeare professor, his wife, and their three grown daughters: Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordelia (see what she did there?). The girls return home to care for their sick mother, and to...
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En Garde!
This past Saturday, Penn hosted the Philadelphia Invitational, a season-opening men's and women's fencing event that saw fencing squads from schools such as Duke and UNC don their plastrons and knickers and do sabered battle in University City. Penn's men's team, ranked seventh nationally, was totally dominant. They went a perfect 6–0 on the day, only coming close to defeat against Duke. Here's a quick video recap with an interview with Penn junior Vidur Kapur....
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Yo, Philly In the News
Local student gets to sit next to Michelle Obama, local community group wins a grant from the Dept. of Education and more in this morning's news!
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Phillyist Playlist: Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield at World Cafe Live
Photo courtesy of Big Hassle Media What better cure for the Monday blues than a little alt-rock fantasy soap opera of sorts at the World Cafe Live? Tonight we have Evan Dando [MySpace] and Juliana Hatfield [MySpace], two former poster children of the grunge movement with a lot of history together. Both from Boston, Hatfield and Dando have gone through various iterations of living together, rumored knocking boots (Hatfield says she belongs to "a...
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Icing
Photographed by: Jana Shea
Philadelphia
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Philly Loves Beer: Last Call
Image Credit: Jason Alley As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end and this is unfortunately one of those times. While Phillyist has another week, this will be the last Philly Loves Beer as I will be in the land of Abita and too much High Life when that happens. So this will be goodbye, and as I am horrible at these kind of things I will leave you with...
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Frugal Fun Alert: Jan. 24 – 27, 2011
Fun around town, for $10 or less: Monday: Alien Monster Thing: Movie Monday screens Predator at the Balcony. (1003 Arch Street). Doors at 6:30 p.m, film at 8 p.m., $3. Metal Monday: Carousel with Cow Pals and Bamboo Houses at Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St). 8 p.m., $5. Tuesday: Tell a Beastly Tale: First Person Arts' Story Slam at L'etage (624 S. 6th St.). 7:30 p.m., $10. New Music: Starving the Tsunami...
