Entries Tagged as 'Page Five'

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Philly.com Web site redesign, what do you think?

Philly.com – the online home of the Inquirer and the Daily News – has a new redesign. Our man Daniel McQuade of Philadelphia Weekly’s Will Do blog has some thoughts. Well, well! Philly.com went a redesigned and… well, they got rid of the changing front page via Javascript, so the redesign is an immediate success [...]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Philadelphia police beating as bad as Rodney King?

You’ve heard it by now. Fox 29 captured an 11-minute video following a Philadelphia police chase that ended with officers punching and kicking three men, suspected of a drive-by shooting minutes prior Monday night. In case you’re smart enough to avoid cable news, you might not realize that the story is being recycled again and [...]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Marc Lamont Hill: rumors swirl on relationship with Star Jones

Temple education professor Marc Lamont Hill was spotted going out to dinner with TV personality Star Jones, Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Celebrity media was all over Star leaving her previous man, or so I’m told. Our man Marc Lamont Hill is always a “Sexy Single” when the Daily News gets into [...]

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Email Scam Does Not Trick Me This Go Around

We all read about that scam perpetrated against Temple’s email system. Fraudulent emails were sent to users, some of whom responded with their passwords. Spammers then used Temple’s system to send out advertisements for enlargement creams, enlargement pills, and get rich quick schemes. There is a silver lining, though. I was not one of the [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Media Bias

As the Democratic nomination process continues, supporters of both candidates accuse the media of bias. Each time a particular negative narrative takes hold in news stories for a few days, it is a sign of some sort of bias. At one time, these arguments gained much traction with me, but I was enlightened. I used [...]

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Huge, hilarious Inquirer mistake

Gotta love picking fun at big urban daily newspapers. Check out the enormous mistake made by the Inquirer today. Peep the bar after the Phillies score above.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Penn hates cancer more than Temple

More than 1,000 walked around in a circle and other stuff to raise funds for cancer research, part of the 5th annual Relay for Life, held in the Student Pavilion on Friday. As Event Chair and junior public relations major Beth Davis told The Temple News on the video below that was posted after the [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Geekadelphia: 15 ways to sleep on SEPTA

Geekadelphia has a pretty sweet book on the 15 ways to sleep on a SEPTA train. As a staffer of The Temple News, I am, of course, a No. 4, what are you?

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Philly Spring Clean-up: Hype or culture change?

Last week Philadelphia got a scrubbing as part of Philly Spring Clean-up Day, an initiaitve of the Nutter administration. We at The Temple News definitely liked the vibe, but what do you think? Check the below news coverage of the event, is this just hype or is Mayor Michael Nutter changing a culture? You need [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Temple Republicans love Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton was on Main Campus last week, stumping for her moms presidential bid. She spoke at a well-attended event in McGonigle Hall and got all sorts of questions, but I’m most interested in a rehashing of one of the most important issues on the campaign trail. Chelsea being hot, and not enough people giving [...]