Yo, seriously, how is there any debate? Chelsea Clinton is hot. Check out this video by The Temple News on a recent appearance Hillary’s daughter made in Philadelphia, and try to tell me differently. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video That’s a far cry from her early days as [...]
It had been rumored for weeks, then the blog Philly Skyline broke the news March 13. Now the story of the tallest addition to the city’s skyline has gone mainstream. Awfully exciting. See a story by Metropolis columnist Ryan Briggs in Tuesday’s print edition of The Temple News. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser [...]
I would like to wade into the morass of the election for one moment. There are three viable candidates, and I find them to all be appealing, capable Americans. For my first time as a functioning adult, it seems that we have an embarrassment of riches with regard to presidential candidates. Certainly, none are without [...]
Ok, maybe not Philadelphia, but “Philadelphia-area”. Tuesday night, someone flattened the tires of 40 buses in the Pennsauken school district, presumably to avoid going to school. That same person awkwardly spray-painted “Sen ’08″ on one of the buses as well. This, however, does not compete with the recent chicken run in the Northeast. Photo courtesy [...]
The world’s most famous convicted cop-killer will be spared the death sentence, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.A federal appeals court refused to reinstate his death sentence, but didn’t reverse his murder conviction in the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulkner.The convicted killer, who has earned world-renown for his activist past, having been a [...]
Bryn Mawr College has been feeling the love from political campaigns recently. The small women’s college 11 miles from Philadelphia hosted Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera last weekend as she went around the state campaigning for Hillary. Tomorrow, Kate Walsh of Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice will be speaking at 5 p.m. on Bryn Mawr’s campus. [...]
If you’ve taken IH2 (soon to be Mosaic, see our article here), you’ve probably read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the milestone 1958 novel the presents colonization through the eyes of the colonized. Achebe will be at the Free Library tonight celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book. The auditorium is sold out, but simulcast [...]
The Temple women’s basketball team lost to Arizona State, 61-54, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at the Comcast Center in College Park, Md. Monday. Courtesy of TTN photographer Kevin Cook, here are photos from the Owls NCAA Tournament experience. Enjoy it while it lasts, it will only be up for a couple [...]
… and have fun paying your fines and/or doing hours upon hours of community service for alcohol violations. A whopping nine violations appeared in the daily crime report this morning for the weekend following St. Patrick’s Day. One student was busted March 21 for stealing bottles of beer from Maxi’s on the holiday. And you [...]
A special Temple cameo from overheardinphilly.com: The Eternal Struggle For Dominance Of The Temple Guard Philadelphia cop comes tearing in the door and tries to jump onto an elevator, followed by a shouting Temple cop: Philly cop: “I outrank you!” Temple cop: “No, *I* outrank *you*!” Temple University Dental School Overheard by Feeling safe [...]
