Readers Fwd: Someone Still Loves You Vai Sikahema Surely you are aware of the measure of mediocrity that is the “Locals Are” infodump on the NBC 10 homepage. Well the attached screenshot contains two Vai Sikahema stories that the site’s readers are bored of. Apparently I’m tremendously bored as well which is why I was at their site in the first place. So [... >> read more or comment
Noontime Nuggetz: Trippiest Dinner Party Ever Man Tales at Philadelphia Livearts/Fringe Festival 2010 from David Miranda Hardy on Vimeo. This is the trailer for Tales Found Theater‘s “thought-provoking journey through a modern version of ancient Rome that investigates and challenges the conventions of storytelling” which starts its Fringe Festival run tomorrow night. Somewhere in all of this there had better be some [... >> read more or comment
Commentroversy: Grasso Speaks! Responding to this post on his proposed Fishtown music venue and the notion that he might be trying to “replace” the Electric Factory developer David Grasso (pictured) became one of Philebrity’s newest commenters last night. His spin? I Think Whoever wrote this article is trying to cause a fight between me and the Electric Factory. [... >> read more or comment
Harrisburg On The Brink Of Bankruptcy Whoopsie: The City Of Harrisburg is about to default on a a $3.29 million municipal-bond payment because it blew all of its money on a big incinerator. Some local officials have raised the idea of the municipality declaring bankruptcy but Rendell has made a poo-poo face to that idea. Really it’s time for Harrisburg to [... >> read more or comment
Philly Vying With Berlin And Chicago In HuffPo Def Mural Slam Do you dare to deny our Steve Powers? Over at the Huffington Post Philly Chicago and Berlin have been pitted against each other in a fairly random arbitrary “Which City Has The Best Street Art?” poll. Frankly we’d like to see more but if this is anything to go by Chicago isn’t even a contender. [... >> read more or comment
New Republican Motorcycle Gang Just The Thing For The Teeny Tiny Joey Vento In All Of Us Republican Riding Association Date: 2010-09-01 5:33PM GOP Riders MC is a politically oriented motorcycle club who’s mission is to promote both the love of motorcycles and our Republican Political Ideology. Like-minded people tend to work better together when their goals are similar in nature. Our Club will work hard to start chapters in every county/parish/district [... >> read more or comment
Inside Donald Trump's Miss Universe :: August 22 2010 In a beauty pageant you are bound to find two things: the beauty queens and the poll of (gay) talent that makes the contestants look for beautiful. From hairstylists make up artists fashion designers to the experts that train these young ladies how to be the ultimate expression of beauty and feminitity. Beauty pageants are the biggest display of talent and expertise on beauty matters - mostly handle by gay men. EDGE attended the Miss Universe 2010 in Vegas and brings you this photo album of the special moments of the pageant!Thu 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Katy Perry wows them at NYC's Splash Katie Perry started last Friday on the Today Show and ended it at Splash. Here's our report on her last stop of the day.Tue 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Gay Community Night :: August 23 2010 We all go to baseball games every day but on the 23rd of August you could sit together with hundreds of LGBT baseball fans non-baseball fans friends and family for the 8th annual Gay Community Night at the Phillies. For those who arrived early people were able to see Gloris Casarezm Director of LGTB Affairs for the City of Philadelphia throw out the ceremonial first pitch as well as a performance from the Philadelphia Voices fo Pride singing the National Anthem. Despite the inclimate weather and a loss by the Phillies the LGTB spirits were not dampened and Edge was there for all the fun.Fri 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Nina Flowers :: August 20 2010 On the 20th of August the incomperable Miss Nina Flowers Model Makeup Artist DJ and Entertainer extraordinaire took to the stage and dazzled the audience with 2 seperate performances at Voyeur Nightclub for a benefit performance to raise money for the "Gay Northeast". With MC for the night Lisa Lisa as well as other performers who took to the stage the audience was treated to an amazing show. Afterwards Nina Flowers (AKA Jorge Flores) met with many of his fans where he signed autographs took photos with them and even talked with them one on one. Edge was in the mix and took these photo's just for you!Thu 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
2 Fire Island Legends to Tag Team at the Pavilion This Weekend Michael Fierman was one of the stars of the old Pavilion while Robbie Leslie played its predecessor the Sandpiper. On Saturday Aug. 28 the two legends take over Pavilion & give a taste of the -openbracket-italic-closebracket-real-openbracket-/italic-closebracket- Fire Island Sound.Wed 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
A Tale of Two Prides Part II: Toronto New York and Toronto did not have their (Pride) celebrations on the same weekend because of the G-20 Summit in Toronto. I hit both.Sun 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Boys of Summer :: August 13 2010 Boys of Summer 7 was held on Friday the 13th the day may be considered bad luck but anyone who went found out it was one of the luckiest days. The hottest swimsuit party of the year featured hundreds of sexy men in their tiniest swimsuits with dozens of the hottest local guys as the Lifeguards for the evening....Anyone need CPR? This year they had as their special performer Pandora Boxx from RuPauls Drag Race and Drag U to entertain the men with DJ Billy Carroll spinning the night night away the music was shaking and the men were dancin'. Edge was there to get every photo for you!Thu 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Ascension Party :: August 15 2010 After a meteoric five-year rise Ascension has arguably become the definitive circuit party weekend on Fire Island Pines-and the standard-bearer for polished and professional outdoor dance events.Thu 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Ascension Soars Higher & Higher After a meteoric five-year rise Ascension has arguably become the definitive circuit party weekend on Fire Island Pines - and the standard-bearer for polished and professional outdoor dance events.Thu 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Abel Engineered a Transformation It's the late fall of 1980. The streets are empty in South Beach. The quiet beachside community of retired residents closely resembles a gigantic old folks' home - hardly the bustling world capital of music modeling and muscle that it would morph into inMon 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Brighton and Its Pleasures: the UK's Gay Paradise At the center of Brighton is the city's most famous landmark: a gigantic pleasure palace. Built for George IV while he was the Prince Regent to his father mad King George III the Royal Pavilion provides the perfect metaphor for Brighton.Mon 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
DJ Profile :: Twisted DEE AND Phil B With August here you can look forward to one of the month's big events - the party that you have been waiting for since last August. Now in its fifth year Fire Island Pines' "Ascension" has grown from a single beach party to an entire weekend of partiesSat 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Rehomo Ramblings: A fine fresh and fierce weekend Summer in August has always been classified with the three dreaded H's-hazy hot and humid. If last weekend was any indication of what's in store for the rest of the season however we may have to describe the month with Katy Perry's three F's-fine fresh and fierce.Tue 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST >> read more or comment
Come to Greensgrow Farm for this introductory class on Winter Gardening and Harvesting. The class will include what to plant and when to harvest. The class is on September 25th at 12 PM and will last for about an hour. All are welcome and the class is free. RSVP to greensgrowu [at] greensgrow [dot] org.
September 25th 12 PM Greensgrow Farm 2503 Cumberland Street Philadelphia PA 19125 www.greensgrow.org
Come to Greensgrow Farm for this introductory class on how to care for your street trees. The class is on September 18th at 12 PM and will last for about an hour. All are welcome and the class is free. RSVP to greensgrowu [at] greensgrow [dot] org.
September 18th 12 PM Greensgrow Farm 2503 Cumberland Street Philadelphia PA 19125
The Greensgrow’s Sustainability Series continues with a course on living roofs on Thursday September 9th. This introductory class will explain how to make and maintain a living roof as well as all the benefits that living roofs bring. All are welcome. The class begins at 6 pm usually about an hour and a half and is free. All are welcome. Please RSVP to Leah at leah [at] greensgrow [dot] org.
If you need to get rid of toothache pain temporarily in the hopes it will disappear on its own or until you can get in to see a dentist here are 3 home remedies proven to work well.
Cloves and clove oil are a popular home remedy for relieving a toothache. This method has been passed down for centuries and is also known to work well on pain caused by dry socket. This remedy is easy to apply as you simply rest a clove against the sore area of your tooth until the pain subsides.
The rash that results from scabies is not the product of not bathing or not being clean. Before the advent of modern medicine it was thought that lack of cleanliness caused the scabies rash. That however has been proven false as people from all walks of life contract the scabies mite both clean and those with questionable hygiene and therefore seek scabies treatment. The scabies infestation is spread rapidly through overcrowding and places that involve a great deal of physical contact such as in factories schools and nursing homes.
This is a double celebration for all of our loyal clients for the grand opening of Blush Photography studio and anyone who wants to see what we are all about!! I hope you can join us for a few drinks photo exhibit local crafts raffles mingle and meet our staff consultations with skin care professionals stylists and makeup artists card readers hair and makeup samples goodies and much more!
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The NKCDC Neighborhood Advisory Committee Michael Blum from the U.S. Dept. of Justice and NKCDC housing counselors will be available to discuss your options and help you avoid predatory lenders and scammers.
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Hurricane Earl To Pass Wide Of NJ Coastline It's been nearly 200 years since a hurricane scored a direct hit on New Jersey and that streak will continue. Hurricane Earl is forecast to pass 150 to 200 miles off the state's coast Friday but hit close to Long Island N.Y. and Cape Cod and Nantucket in Massachusetts. read more >>
Cops: Man Left Grandson In Car While He Gambled On the same day that legislation was introduced in Pennsylvania to increase punishments for leaving a child inside a car a grandfather was arrested at a Bensalem casino for doing just that. read more >>
Utley Drives In 6 Runs In Phillies' Win Chase Utley drove in six runs and hit a grand slam to cap a nine-run seventh inning Thursday night as the Philadelphia Phillies overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 12-11. read more >>
Alleged Serial Bank Robber Strikes In Mayfair The FBI and the Philadelphia Police Department are searching for a suspect they believe is responsible for five bank robberies with the latest occurring in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning. read more >>
Terry McMillan has garnered much critical and popular acclaim for her character-driven novels. Her New York Times bestselling books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back have been made into major motion pictures. With Getting to Happy McMillan revisits the Waiting ladies 15 years later and reveals each of them at her own midlife crossroads.
An award-winning investigative journalist and poet Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the 10th parallel-the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator-at the geographic and ideological front where Christianity and Islam collide. In The Tenth Parallel Griswold illustrates how faith is shaped by geography and demographics and how one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth.
Sara Gruen is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants Flying Changes and Riding Lessons. A devoted animal lover she draws readers into the animal world through stories where fiction is closely aligned with facts drawn from her own meticulous research. Bonobo apes share 99.4% of the same DNA as humans and are renowned for their language-learning abilities. In Ape House a family of language-competent Bonobos is stolen from a fictitious language laboratory and turn up in a reality television show.
Join us for Happy Hour at the Free Library! Mix and mingle with other Sara Gruen fans and enjoy light drinks and refreshments before Sara takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. in the Montgomery Auditorium. Happy Hour runs from 6:30 - 7:15 in the Skyline Room on the 4th floor.
Philadelphia orator and activist Octavius Catto electrified audiences in 1864 calling on free men and women to aid and educate the newly freed slaves. In Tasting Freedom co-authors Biddle and Dubin profile this charismatic black leader who championed equal rights nearly a century prior to the modern Civil Rights movement. Daniel R. Biddle is the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pennsylvania editor; he won a Pulitzer Prize and other national awards for his investigative stories on the courts. Murray Dubin the author of South Philadelphia: Mummers Memories and the Melrose Diner was a reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 34 years until 2005.
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's third novel was awarded both the National Book Award and the New York Times Editors' Choice Award for 2001. He was named one of the Twenty Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker and has received both the Whiting Writer's Award and the American Academy's Berlin Prize. Freedom-an epic of contemporary love and marriage-is his first novel since The Corrections.
William Gibson's debut novel Neuromancer famously swept the science fiction "Triple Crown" claiming the Nebula Philip K. Dick and Hugo awards. The first work to win all three prizes Neuromancer envisioned a high tech world hip with the cynicism of the underground music scene: the "cyberpunk" genre was born. His new novel Zero History is set in the same universe-featuring rocker turned journalist Hollis Henry and international finance genius Hubertus Bigend-as his recent near-future fantasies the New York Times bestsellers Pattern Recognition and Spook Country.
In 1944 at the age of 10 Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated from his mother then his father he survived by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck. Almost two years after his liberation he was reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. A past president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights he is a co-recipient of the 2008 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize and currently serves as the American judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn The Heat Seekers the Flava series and Dear G-Spot among others Zane is known for stories that fuse hot sex snappy dialog and social consciousness. She is also the publisher of Strebor Books an imprint of Atria Books/Simon Schuster. Her television series Zane's Sex Chronicles is featured on Cinemax and her novel Addicted was adapted for a major motion picture. The New York Times comments "Arguably not since the emergence of Nancy Friday has American letters produced a purveyor of erotica with such mass-market appeal."
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Celebrate Banned Books Week and support intellectual freedom as local artists musicians actors and TV personalities read from their favorite censored volumes. For more information call 215-686-5414.;
Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has twice been named to Granta's list ofBest Young British Novelists and her literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award for Looking for the Possible Dance and the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains. Her work favors emotionally laden realism punctuated with dark humor and resonant descriptive passages. Of What Becomes Kennedy's new story collection a New York Times reviewer writes "Perception moves the story forward. Kennedy mines the present moment watching it tangle with the past and the future. She's less interested in traditional notions of plot than the dramatic flailing of a character's interior world."
Satirist Gary Shteyngart was named to The New Yorker's most recent list of "20 Under 40" writers worth watching. Born in Leningrad USSR he immigrated to the United States at age seven. His first critically acclaimed novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook which contains autographical elements about the immigrant experience won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel Absurdistan was a national bestseller and was named of the 10 Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.
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