Results tagged “gangs”

• Fourteen members of a Chester gang were arrested in an early-morning raid yesterday.
• The budget approved by the City Council, which would increase sales tax (temporarily, so they say) and make major changes to the city's pension fund payments, may face stiff opposition when it goes to the state legislature for approval.
• A squeaky clean looking math teacher at North Penn High School is being charged with having sex with a student and sending sexually explicit messages to that student and another over the Internet.

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It's Book Quarterly time! They got fiction, non, and some excerpts.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then surely bowling is the sport of the working man (and woman!), which is why Phillyist was delighted to see the new Lucky Strike Lanes open up on Chestnut Street near Broad. Here, we thought, is our chance to hang out with friends, wear some smelly shoes that belong to who-knows who, drink cheap beer, eat bad nachos made with unnaturally Florescent cheese product, make the person closest to us explain again how to score a strike if someone gets it after getting a spare in the final frame, and every so often get up up to throw a heavy metal sphere down the lane only to watch it land in the gutter. Again. (Or you could try to hit the pins; we understand some people prefer that.) Ultimately - a laid back, casual night out where everyone can be themselves and not worry about their footwear or overall fashion.

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It's like ist, and like that, and like ist, huh? Here's your weekly wrap-up of what's going on across the world, courtest of the Gothamist network.