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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
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Just days before Live 8, in late June of 2005, the inimitable John Carroll, Phillyist's first editor, let the world know that Phillyist was live and online. Now five years, six months, three days, and nearly 13,000 posts later, it is my official duty to provide one last post for Phillyist.
Monday, January 31, 2011
It was a (presumably) cold November day in 2006 when I made my humble debut on Phillyist with a post called Elevating My Frustration. It was about elevator etiquette. I've come a long way since then. I featured interesting Twitter users and hope some of them will follow us into the future at @keypulp. I wrote not one but two posts on the mysterious Toynbee tiles. The local sleuths who spent years investigating them were the subject of a Sundance-winning documentary called Ressurect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.
Snowventure along the Wissahickon
Photographed by: Julia Rowe
Wissahickon Creek
Friday, January 28, 2011
Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? The best from this week in the 215 blogosphere...
In which our Bad Person *tear* says goodbye.
As we make our way to work in the aftermath of yet another winter storm with no running buses, many of us will be digging out cars and braving the treacherous streets of Philadelphia. Later, upon returning home from work, far too many people will be faced with the reality that some a-hole stole their perfectly sculpted parking space during the day, forcing them to park presumably near the Sports Complex.
As this is Phillyist's last ArtIST post, we're pleased to be ending the series with artist Mami Kato. A Japanese citizen, Kato was born and raised in Japan before coming to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) on a transfer program. After moving back to Japan for a spell, she relocated to Philadelphia permanently eighteen years ago. For more insight into the career of this artIST, keep reading.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Love Lessons From Abu Ghraid, a one woman show that opens at Interact this week, looks pretty compelling.
Capogiro
Photographed by: cheshire smile eats (and drinks)
Center City
Under normal circumstances, we here at Phillyist post a video each day that in some way pertains to Philadelphia or its surrounding area. Since all that's really going on today is snow, snow, freezing rain, and more snow, we're going to go national instead and share last night's State of the Union address in its entirety, in case you missed it or wish to argue with your computer monitor a little more. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, Independent, or a Teabagger, take a look. Even if you don't agree with what's being said, it's important for you to have an understanding of the political atmosphere in this country right now, if only so that you can go complain to Twitter about it later.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
As we teased on Twitter yesterday and revealed to Technically Philly this morning, January 31 is not the last you'll be seeing of the Phillyist editors and staff. True, Phillyist won't be updated after 5:00 p.m. next Monday, but, as that song we got stuck in your heads last week goes: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Shakespeare fiends, this one's for you!
This past Saturday, Penn hosted the Philadelphia Invitational, a season-opening men's and women's fencing event that saw fencing squads from schools such as Duke and UNC don their plastrons and knickers and do sabered battle in University City. Penn's men's team, ranked seventh nationally, was totally dominant. They went a perfect 6–0 on the day, only coming close to defeat against Duke. Here's a quick video recap with an interview with Penn junior Vidur Kapur. Errol Flynn ain't got shit on these bucklers of swash.
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