Playlist Rewind: Shonen Knife at Johnny Brenda's
Phillyist Playlist: 311 at the Borgata Event Center
I Have a Baby and Ten Dollars...Now What?
Phillyist Playlist: The Kin at the Trocadero
Greensgrown Goes Whole Hog
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The Youth Study Center near 20th and Pennsylvania Avenue is outdated, overcrowded, and just overall in very poor condition. It's really the only detention center for younger suspects in the city, and it's not keeping them in very effectively. Luckily, a new, high tech version could be built in West Philly - if Mayor Street and Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell (whose district the new site is in) can kiss and make up.
It sounds like the challenge to Bob Brady's candidacy will be handled from a judge outside of Philadelphia, which makes sense. Meanwhile, the two lesser known mayoral candidates (Jesus White and Queena Bass) will be facing challenges of their own, as will 30 other candidates trying to get on the May 15 ballot, including five City Council members and everybody's favorite Council at-large candidate, Milton Street.
Meanwhile, in other school news, there was another violent incident on Wednesday morning, this time at West Philadelphia High, in which a nonteaching assistant was sucker-punched in the hallway by a student. The student was at large Wednesday night, but the principal was removed at the end of the day; it was unclear whether him leaving was connected to the incident.
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We're sad to report that Milton Street is no longer running for mayor, but happy to report that he is running for City Council-at-large—against his own nephew! Which means a lot of relatives of mayors and former mayors will be on the May 15 ballot (May 15 being, as the Daily News helpfully points out, the day after Milton is scheduled to stand trial on federal corruption charges). Besides Milton and his nephew Sharif, there'll be W. Wilson Goode, the son of former Mayor Wilson Goode, and Bill Green, the son of former Mayor William Green.
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