Results tagged “journalism”

Don't knock it: Eddie Alvarez goes from Kensington street brawling to Mixed Martial Arts superstar.

Remember all that talk about “mandates?” Well, if Wendy Lee's story is any indication, Obama’s got it in the bag.

Kensington loses a beloved resident, and friends want to know why.

One of the most fun things about the quadrennial circuses that are the Democratic and Republican National Conventions is the protesters. They're frequently a rich source of both important social discourse and absolute hilarity. Pick a subject, any subject, and somewhere in America—especially at convention time—someone is protesting it. Someone out there is protesting kittens as you read this.

Blogging's not too bad either: G.W. Miller explains why you want to get into journalism.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings almost burned down the TLA Friday night with one of the hottest shows I've seen there all year.

For our parents, it was the assassination of JFK. Ask any of them and they can remember exactly what they were doing at the time they found out JFK had been killed. I never understood that until September 11, 2001. Our generation can remember it like it was yesterday. For us, that moment, frozen in time, is and will always be 9/11.

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

We here at Phillyist love the holiday season as much as the next person. It always brings fond memories of great home cooked food, warm fireplaces and those wonderful family get-togethers where something always gets broken, someone always falls asleep really early, and someone else takes WAY too many pictures (Mom...).

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.

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

If you’re a swinger, you’ve heard of it by now. If you’re not, you’re probably wondering what happened to Señor Rattler’s Cantina.

Waiting to hear award show results? They might not be the Oscars, but the Barrymore Awards, Philadelphia theatre’s answer to the Tonys, were announced last Monday. Both Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Arden did remarkably well this year, each scooping an Outstanding Production award. PTC won Outstanding Production of a Play for their touching rendition of Take Me Out, the Broadway smash about a gay baseball player’s coming out (and did we mention everyone gets naked? Here’s hoping for a revival); the Arden won Outstanding Production of a Musical for the darkly comic Sweeney Todd. Terry Nolan also picked up best direction for Sweeney. Maria Mileaf had a surprising win over Jim Christy, director of Take Me Out, for her direction of The Story, a tale of race and journalism at PTC. Jim probably wasn’t too miffed, though – he picked up a lifetime achievement award.

Yeah, yeah - we hear you. You've bombarded us with e-mails about Terrell Owens and wondered why we haven't posted about him. And we'll tell you why: we're kind of pissed. Quite often, we'll hold our staff meetings outside with various exercise equipment. Heck, we'll even haul out the big screen TV and the tae-bo tapes. But no one ever covers us. Not even Blinq. And that hurts.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has been around for a while, but don’t take our word for it, just check out their coverage of the Civil War. That’s right, they were around all the way back when those dumb-asses thought it was a good idea to stand 30 feet apart and drill each other in the face with crude lead bullets. Luckily for history buffs (and the infantry), technology and military stratagems have come a long way since then and the paper’s full coverage of the war is now available on-line.