Think Ellen Page – riding a bike on 12th Street and buying licorice rope at the Rite Aid at Susquehanna and Broad.

This week’s issue of Philadelphia Weekly features a Juno-esque cover story written by Jennifer Merrill, a freshman journalism major at Temple. In the personal essay, Merrill challenges the pregnant-teen stigma and chronicles stages of her pregnancy.

The story’s stirring up some controversy on the PW Web site. Some readers are praising Merrill (who also wrote a TTN Opinion article on maternity unit closings last December) for sharing her story while others are questioning the article’s newsworthiness.

Is Merrill’s story cover-worthy? Or, as reader “jan” asked, is PW the new Seventeen Mag?