Eugene Martin, a filmmaker and professor in BTMM, getting some media love for tomorrow night’s debut of his latest documentary, Bloodlines, in which he had two 8th-graders record video diaries about their experiences in Philadelphia schools.

Check its description from the Philadelphia Film Festival:

Two inner-city Philly kids — Ebony from North Philadelphia and Dennis from Port Richmond — were given video cameras to chronicle a year in their young lives, including their experiences at home, at school and with their friends. Filmmaker Eugene Martin edits their stories into a fascinating look into their worlds.

It’s part of the Philadelphia Film Festival, world debuting at the International House of Philadelphia tomorrow night at 7 p.m. More than 250 seats have already sold through tonight, Martin said, but walk-up tickets will be available. $10, dress casual.

Check Martin’s submission to the PFF.

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Check all the featured films here.

As posted here earlier, Hillary Clinton will be on Main Campus today, at a rally in McGonigle Hall at 6 p.m.

With Pennsylvania’s April 22nd primary looming, and Philadelphia acting as the state’s political launching pad, both Clinton and her opponent Barack Obama have opened offices and are looking for every edge here in the Quaker City.

In a city with oodles of college voters, be prepared for lots of attention. In doing so, I came upon some unshakeable math.

Temple voters can swing Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania will likely decide the Democratic nominee, and therefore the future of the United States history.

The course of U.S. policy clearly has a direct affect on the world around us.

Thusly, the future of this planet is in the hands of Temple University.

That’s called the transitive property, folks.

Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia and TTN was there, with a review, interview and plenty of love. Rock it out, my friend.

This is why you need organized archives of your 86-year-old college newspaper.

Yes you read that headline right, ‘Creed continues to rise!’

What do you think?

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This was originally posted on the blog Room 243, which primarily caters to alumni of The Temple News. See the site here.

Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia and TTN was there, with a review, interview and plenty of love. Rock it out, my friend. What do you think?

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You didn’t listen to us.

The Temple News has chronicled the story of one of the largest historical collections of the American end of the African diaspora, as it has sat on Main Campus for the past 25 years.

We were there when its original curator, Charles Blockson, stepped down and a new curator came to task. Its interim leaders and .

But, now as the embattled Blockson Collection moves back into its larger renovated digs in Sullivan Hall – where President Ann Weaver Hart’s office is – one of the most celebrated, and least known, collections of black American history is getting all sorts of national media attention.

See the story on MSNBC

Read the Washington Post story.

Inquirer got it, too.

Even the Altoona Mirror.

Do you want a show you’ve never heard of to come to Temple?

Of course you do!

As a promotion by MTV, a new podcast called ‘Man and Wife’ is going to film an episode from the five college campuses in the country that had the most support. Somehow, right now, Temple is in the top five of this mostly meaningless contest.

Why not win it?

If you care, sign up here, it just takes a minute and then you could watch the filming of this show you’ve now heard of for the first time.

Check out the show here. Or have it explained below.

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Temple University’s immaculately coiffed president spilled all to The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday… about a few of her favorite things, at least. Turns out Hart is a Woody Allen fan, reads crime and mystery novels at the beach, loves The Simpsons but hates to admit it and listens to James Taylor when her soul needs a lift.

Desperately searching for ways to make small talk with the most powerful woman on campus? Bring up her favorite book, Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, put on any of The Lord of the Rings films or suggest a lightsaber fight ala Star Wars.

Canine solicitation has been criminalized.

The signature item at the fourth annual Owl Club auction, held on Saturday, was a cute golden retriever puppy, in addition to Wing Bowl passes, Eagles tickets, and golf packages with football Head Coach Al Golden.

Turns out, though, that only a licensed kennel can sell a dog, as the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

So while proceeds from the auction benefit Temple athletics, including the reported $700 that women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley paid for the dog, Temple might run into more trouble, as they face a citation for the infraction.

And what a surprise, an alumnus of St. Joseph’s, against whom the men’s basketball played after the auction, ratted the Owl Club out.

Still, Temple isn’t worried about where the dog is headed.

“It’s going to a tremendous home,” Larry Dougherty, Temple’s sports information director, told the Inquirer.