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As tired as we might be of listening to politicians using September 11 to forward their agendas, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on where we were eight years ago today.

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We do, however, commend the owner of the daycare center for the actions she's taken.

Like the Action News theme. But that would be a lot less comforting if the clothes hadn't changed along with it!

Or something like it. Go Birds!

Thanks to reader Brian for this submission, which needs no further commentary.

You know, if their numbers are lagging so much, they may benefit from, oh, allowing women to join. Just maybe.

Dust off those pens with the big fluffy feathers at the ends: It’s time to play Cyrano. In honor of their East Coast premiere of David DiChiera's Cyrano, the Opera Company of Philadelphia exhorts you to “unleash your romantic spirit just in time for Valentine’s Day” with a love letter contest. One lucky winner will rack up significant significant-other points: on February 15, a limo will take you and your beloved to a dinner at Le Bec-Fin, followed by box seating at the Cyrano premiere and an invite to the champagne intermission reception. Two runners-up will receive pairs of tickets to the premiere and can also partake of the champagne.

Someone should tell the news directors at ABC 6 and NBC 10 that the possibility of a thug basketballer being traded is not the story you should lead your newscast with, as they did Friday at 11 p.m. It isn’t like there weren't more important stories, like the E. coli outbreak or the congressional report on the Mark Foley scandal. About the only thing this did was make CBS 3’s story about the cold weather seem like a reasonable lead. CBS 3 did cover the possibility of the Allen Iverson trade, but about seven minutes into the newscast. Even that was excessive, since it really should be confined to the sports report.

ABC 6’s Action News #1 yet again, CBS 3 getting stronger

ABC 6 seems to have had way too much self love over its Thanksgiving Day Parade. Wednesday night at 11 PM they dedicated a large chunk of the first part of the newscast to the parade. Especially ridiculous was a poorly produced Dann Cuellar piece where he spent several minutes previewing the parade and “visited” the “North Pole” with some of the most awful green screen work you will ever see. If you are going to do something like this, do it at the end of the newscast and not at 11 p.m. when there are no children watching.

Kudos to NBC 10 for airing a live election special Monday night dealing with the issues and candidates in the Delaware Valley. Steve Highsmith handles things like this very well, but co-anchor Tim Lake seemed like a lightweight sitting next to him. Among the highlights: conservative talk show host Michael Smerconish and Democratic analyst Rob McCord provided a nice right/left debate on some issues and tactics. WCAU really did their election coverage - pre, during and post - right.

Election night, NBC 10 had the best broadcast locally, supplying the right mix of live coverage, analysis and discussion, as seen on both its own newscast, and the one it produces for WPHL. Admittedly, Tim Lake seems like he should be hosting Good Day Tampa Bay or some late night infomercial rather than a newscast. Also, there is something disconcerting about Renee Chenault-Fattah anchoring election coverage, seeing as how her husband is U.S. Congressman Chakah Fattah. It has the appearance of something not-quite-kosher, but hey, this is Pennsylvania politics, where pork is not a four letter word. And anyway these are only a few minor complaints about some informative and insightful coverage.

Please welcome another new author to our team, G. W. Bridge, whose diverse talents include reviewing pizza places, and covering local news items, as he does below.

Local indie rockers Rifle Nice wrote in to let Phillyist and our readers know that their new album, , is available for download or pre-order (if you like your cds oldschool) from their website, riflenice.com. (We love a band that keeps things eponymous - it makes things so much simpler for us to remember that way.)

When it closed in May 2002, the Sam Eric theater (once known as the Boyd) - on Chestnut Street between 19th and 20th - was a pretty scummy place, just a crumbling shadow of its former self. Nevertheless, the citizens of Philly saw not only history but also potential for the future in its old frame, and saved it from demolition. Now the Friends of the Boyd are looking to renovate the place, and what better way to raise funds to resurrect an old Philly movie palace than to hold a screening of a great Philly movie?

"a compilation featuring twenty Philadelphia artists covering Philadelphia musicians past and present," and among the tunage is a cover of said Hall & Oates song by Method and Result.

Besides chancing the formation of an extra finger, or the loss of one, hardly-chlorinated water can cause any number of rashes and infections on its own. There are almost 30 public fountains in Philadelphia and each of them is used as a swimming pool at one point or another.

This Saturday when 6.4 million people stuff the Parkway tighter than Bon Jovi’s pants, you have to expect there will be a certain amount of Mer-men willing to exercise their sea legs just to make sure that the EMT’s have something to do, but we’re not worried about those people. In fact, Live 8 has zero do with the situation other than the fact that the fountains on the Parkway are most likely going to have to be quarantined afterwards. Plus, it’s supremely difficult to pass up an opportunity to make fun of Bon Jovi.

The real point is that people, mostly little kids, all over the city are using these filthy structures as swimming pools and it isn’t safe. A few years ago Action News conducted tests on the safety of the water in the fountains and concluded that if they were held to the same health standards that pools were, they would be closed immediately. Point being: don’t swim in the fountains.

It’s gross enough when the tub hasn’t been Cloroxed in a while, think about the grime building up in fountains used by neighborhood kids, the homeless, pigeons, dogs, ducks, and any number of other wayward animals for swimming, bathing, and everything else. Of course, it’s not exactly like you’re wading out into the Ganges, but then again most of us won’t even go into the baby pool.