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The reports that a suburban woman offered on Craigslist "creative" payment—possibly related to her being "buxom"—for any available World Series tickets. Police responded to the Craigslist ad and the woman has been arrested. We assume the police who found the ad were on the clock and conducting work-related Craigslist searches for sex-for-tickets posts. There is still no word on whether or not the game will be televised within view of her cell, but, if so, she will have to settle for trading cheese sandwiches for a closer seat.

• A local Evangelist filed a suit against the city today for violating his right to free speech at several gay-pride events.
• A building partially collapsed at 16th and Walnut this morning.
• A Hidden City exhibit is being moved from its original location in the Inquirer building due to staff complaints about its content.

• The Sestak vs. Specter smackdown begins! Rep. Joe Sestak has decided to run against Senator (and former Republican) Arlen Specter in the Democratic primaries.
• Protests against torture and the Inquirer's employment of John Yoo begin at 4:30 today. Scheduled activities include a free waterboarding demonstration!
• Nutter's chief planner resigned yesterday and is headed to London.

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Harold Jackson and Brian Tierney. You win.

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The Inquirer reports that a federal court will hold proceedings today regarding a law passed last year that requires the city's tour guides to undergo licensing. The idea is that everyone who dispenses cheeky history lessons all day should actually know history. The stay that delayed implementation of the law is up at the end of this month, so a decision is expected soon. In the meantime, it might be fun to dig up some accurate historical facts and go around the city correcting tour guides. Just an idea.

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If you're picking up a copy of Inquirer columnist Faye Flam's first book, The Score (subtitled "How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man") looking for a titillating chronicle of men's sex lives, look elsewhere. Likewise, if you're looking for groundbreaking scientific research explaining why, for instance, guys like porn, you've picked up the wrong book. Flam is a journalist, pure and simple, so she's neither trying to arouse nor to astound. What she is doing—what she does quite well—is reporting, educating, and informing.

The sustainability revolution is sweeping the nation, as consciousness shifts from a mentality of environmental degradation to one of preservation. According to the Inquirer, “Going Green” is quickly becoming the purview of local colleges, as administrators look for ways to contribute to the sustainability movement. Area schools such as Arcadia University, Muhlenberg College, and Philadelphia University have added courses or concentrations in sustainability. Villanova has gone one step further by naming is naming its coming semesters the Year of Sustainability, with an eye toward improving the academic study of sustainability across its curriculum. Drexel University has plans to implement a "bio wall, which is an interior wall of plants that promotes energy efficiency and better air quality.

Phillyist Angela forwarded this on to us. It's a letter sent to subscribers from the Pennsylvania Treasury. But despite all the presumed brainpower between the two, they couldn't catch a silly typo in the second paragraph.

As none other than the New York Times recently reported, Philadelphia's newspaper situation is experiencing a bit of an upswing, or at least a comfortable plateau, compared to the state of things during the vomit-inducing dissipation of Knight-Ridder's ability to hang on to the Inquirer and the Daily News, not to mention the 30 other papers it was forced to sell off last year. Publisher Brian Tierney, whose Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC acquired the Philly...