Say goodbye to going to the video store and hello to OnDemand.
Tristan Video, located on Liacouras Walk, is having a closing sale in order to fund owner Tristan English’s vision of the Night Owl Cafe, set to debut in August 2011.
According to an e-mail sent to Tristan Video patrons, the store will continue to rent films, games and television shows until Nov. 19. Afterward, DVDs will be for sale only.
Did you use Tristan Video to rent movies or do you already use another source to rent films?
In honor of Frank Warren, the creator of online phenomenon PostSecrets, coming to the Baptist Temple Thursday, Oct. 14, The Temple News wants to know your PostSecrets, tech-style. Direct Message @TheTempleNews on Twitter, e-mail us at letters@temple-news.com or just comment on this blog post with your never-before-told secrets. We won’t blast your secrets all over Main Campus with your name attached, but we will blast your secrets all over The Temple News without your name. After all, the best secrets slip out when you don’t have to own up to them.
courtesy of The Philly Fan Project
A partnership between the Philadelphia Daily News, Philly.com and the Sports Industry Research Center at Temple brings us this latest sports coverage gem – The Philly Fan Project.
The People Paper formed the partnership because it wanted to hear from fans and share the survey results with readers. The project collected its first survey responses from 1,576 Philly.com sports news subscribers and published the findings in April.
Check out the Project’s website for the archive and the most recent survey results.
Earlier last week, Main Campus Program Board announced the schedule of events for Homecoming Week 2010. On Saturday, Oct. 16, the Owls will kick off against Bowling Green State University at Lincoln Financial Field at 1 p.m. After the game, The Liacouras Center will raise the curtain for Passion Pit, an indie-electronic band from Cambridge, Ma. Musical artists K. Flay and Black Joe Brown will open for Passion Pit, and both are currently touring with the band throughout the country.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 9 p.m. Tickets will be available in advance at The Liacouras Center box office, located at 1776 N. Broad St.
For more information, visit www.temple.edu/homecoming.
Before you read this, you were probably frantically scrolling through your news feed, wondering why “Person X” always puts sappy country song lyrics as his or her status and why “Person Y” writes out his or her schedule for you every day. Well, now’s your time to meet the person who let people X and Y trash your news feed. Kind of.
An advance screening of the “The Social Network,” a film depicting the validity behind Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s business, will be playing at the Pearl Theater Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Advance screening passes are located at the Information Desk in the Student Center. One pass allows two people.
Don’t forget to check out The Temple News’ exclusive interview with “The Social Network” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and Matt Flocco’s review of the film.
Thanks to Philly Connections, a program by Student Activities, he’ll be cheap for one night when the L.A. Galaxy is in town to play our home team, the Philadelphia Union. Sure, you may only see the Brit lookin’ pretty sitting on a bench, but maybe Posh will be in town. Or you could watch the game.
Tickets for the Union/Galaxy game and other events listed below are $10 and will be sold from the Student Box Office in the Student Center at the Reel. On days the Reel sells tickets, it will open at 12 p.m.
Philadelphia Union vs. L.A. Galaxy, Oct. 7
Tickets on sale Sept. 23
“Carmen” at the Academy of Music, Oct. 7
Tickets on sale Sept. 21
“Cleopatra” at the Franklin Institute, Oct. 8
Tickets on sale Sept. 23
Flyers vs. Canadians, Nov. 22
Tickets on sale Nov. 8
“Jersey Boys” at the Forrest Theatre, Nov. 11
Tickets on sale Oct. 28
Ironic though, isn’t it?
After reporter Josh Fernandez gave Philebrity.com editor and co-founder Joey Sweeney ample opportunity to put in his expert hipster two cents for his Fourteenth Street magazine (inserted in this week’s issue of TTN) cover article on hipsters adopting queer style, the blog, true to its form, published a barely-there, almost-funny-but-not-quite post attempting to ridicule the mag.
In its post, Philebrity boasts Sweeney’s response to Fernandez’s request for comment, saying, “Instead, he forwarded the email to all of his friends with the subject header “PLEASE KILL ME.” A decision, for the record, he still stands by.”
Funny, because Sweeney’s actual response to the request went something like this: “Hi Josh- I’m gonna pass on this one. Good luck!”
Read: I would respond to you, but I’m too busy hanging out and posting comments here.
Fourteenth Street thanks you for the free publicity, Philebrity. How are ad sales these days?
As a kind sidenote, your “hip” use of Yiddish words is facacta in itself. If you’re going to muddle other tongues, at least have the decency to learn to spell the words correctly. Or are you too cool for that?
Courtesy Philadelphonic
We just got off the phone with G. Love of G. Love & Special Sauce (and more importantly, from Philly) and let’s just say you’re sure to get a few laughs when you read the Q&A in our upcoming music issue debuting Tuesday, Apr. 20. Topics of conversation? Chicks, fake IDs, a special type of urban gardening involving souvenirs from Amsterdam and of course, music. But by the time it hits newsstands, G. will already have played at the Music Box at the Borgata in Atlantic City, just a short I-95 slide away.
As parting words, G. Love said, “Let everyone know we’re playing at the Borgata and they should come down.” We’re letting you know. Go down.
And if you need more YouTube videos to watch while you’re not doing your work, click here to check out G. Love’s “Cookin’ With G” video. It won’t make you hungry, but it will certainly make you laugh.
…when it was shielding you from the raindrops yesterday, but broke your heart when it flipped over, broke and left you soggy, don’t be bitter: Donate your dead (and unkind) umbrellas to the Dead Umbrella Drive tomorrow, April 1, in the Student Center atrium at 1 p.m. Hosted by Students for Environmental Action and the Office of Sustainability, the broken umbrellas will be recycled and donated to the ReyclingZychal Shop, which uses the materials to make raincoats for dogs and cats and is based right here out of Philadelphia. For more information, e-mail deadumbrellas@temple.edu. If you can’t stay dry because the U.S. has horrible umbrella-makers, at least someone’s pooch can.
As of today, the Philadelphia sales tax has increased from 7 cents on the dollar to 8 cents on the dollar. At least Abe Lincoln is getting a boost in popularity.
To find out why the sales tax increased and hear Matt Petrillo’s opinion on the matter, click here .
