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The day has arrived, and in a few hours, it will be time to [responsibly] imbibe alcoholic beverages with the staff of your favorite blog. A blog that just happens to be the 47th-most important blog in the universe. (That's why we're throwing this little shindig!) Meet us downstairs at St. Stephen's Green at 6PM tonight for: Open bar featuring well drinks, house wines, and selected drafts (until we close our tab). $3 Yards...

Remember last month, when some math whiz at Carnegie Mellon decided that Phillyist was the 47th-most important blog... in the universe? Well, the staff of Phillyist got to thinking that we had you to thank for that, so we wanted to buy you all a drink. And then, we got to thinking that 47 is only five away from the meaning of life, and we decided that not only did we want to buy...

  • The search for John Lewis, the suspect in the murder of Officer Chuck Cassidy, is over. Police apprehended him at a homeless shelter in Miami at 7AM. They tracked him down after learning that a relative had bought a bus ticket to Miami for him.
  • We're a little narcissistic. We have a Google News Alert set up to tell us anytime anyone mentions Phillyist on the internets. Usually, it's just a fleeting reference (like a "fleeting expletive," we suppose) to us on someone else's blog – quite often another -Ist blog.

  • Everybody's favorite nanny-beating Villanova heiress, Susan Tabas Tepper, completed her 30 days of court-ordered psychiatric treatment and so yesterday was able to get a sentence of 15 months probation and a $600 fine for the latest incident in which she attacked an employee.
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