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Yesterday, City Council gave final approval to a lease with Fairmount Park that will allow Fox Chase Cancer Center to begin an $800 million expansion. Council also got its first look at a proposal to build a 15-story condominium tower and six-story hotel on the NewMarket site in Society Hill.

The Inquirer is getting excited about the Philadelphia Flower Show, which will have a preview opening for selected guests tomorrow, and then open to the general public on Sunday.

The latest poll in Pennsylvania shows Hillary Clinton's lead against Obama shrinking, and also suggests that regardless of which candidate wins the Democratic primary, he or she will have a close, tough fight against John McCain. Meanwhile, the Montgomery County Democratic Committee is meeting tonight to choose candidates for the April 22nd primary, and they just might endorse a presidential candidate, too.

Saint Joe's will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5PM today to officially open its new Hawks' Landing parking and retail facility at 54th and City Avenue. Hawks' Landing is a $19 million project that features a five-story, 460-space garage, a new and expanded University Bookstore, and a Cosi restaurant underneath.

Mayor Nutter has tapped a Philadelphia native, and city planner who specializes in urban revitalization, to be the city's next commerce director and deputy mayor for economic development.

Another wrinkle in the federal investigation into the activities of City Councilman Jack Kelly and his staff: the estranged wife of his chief of staff is providing information to authorities in the case.

With a preliminary hearing for the case scheduled for tomorrow, the Inquirer takes another look at the 41-year long murder of Police Officer William Barclay. Pennsylvania officials will decide soon whether to spend $45 million to build a stadium in Chester as the final step toward securing a Major League Soccer team for the Philadelphia area. Right now, Philly is second behind St. Louis for the remaining expansion slot, its chances contingent on a stadium...

If you haven’t heard already, Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins is the MVP of the National League. And there is absolutely no one that’s more deserving of the award, except for Rockies left fielder Matt Holliday. You can argue for any player winning the award. Rollins gained 16 first place votes, finishing with 353 points, edging out Holliday’s 11 first place votes and 336 points. This year’s MVP voting was precarious in that J-Roll wasn’t...

The still theoretical Philadelphia Major League Soccer franchise already has a fan club: the Sons of Ben, or SoBs.

When we go to review events (or at least when this Phillyist does), we generally go into them with the presumption that we're going to really enjoy them. Unfortunately, doing so can really set us up for disappointment. And Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution was really something of a letdown. We're not quite sure who to blame for that: the bands, the day's sound engineers, or the Vans Warped Tour, where we had such a good time a few weeks ago. All day long, we couldn't help but compare the two all-day multi-stage festival-style concerts. And Warped Tour was superior in just about every way.

Summer's winding down—or at least that's what the weather has told us the last few days—but one of the big "festival" concerts is coming through town this weekend, so the summer can't quite be done yet. Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour hits the Tweeter Center this Saturday. In addition to headliners Linkin Park, the tour features My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, and a number of others. Plus, the Major League Baseball Road Show featuring batting cages and video game kiosks will be at the show, so if there are any bands you're not interested in seeing, you'll still have some fun stuff to do.

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles.

More news about toxic gas leaks! The Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne was closed early yesterday morning when employees of the J.C. Penney's started showing symptoms of exposure to carbon monoxide. Eight people were taken to a nearby hospital to be treated and released. Testing revealed that there was indeed quite a lot of carbon monoxide floating around in Penney's, caused by the collapse of a chimney on the roof. That store will remain closed until at least today, although the rest of the mall reopened early yesterday afternoon.

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.

Rejoice local soccer fans! We might have an official Major League Soccer team in Philadelphia in the next couple of years.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there.

Phillyist is, of course, just as patriotic as all of our other Ist brethren out there. And while we might not go crazy flouting it the way we suspect our friends at Londonist will over the next few weeks, we'll still be rooting hard for the good ol' U-S-of-A. Specifically, we'll be rooting for two players on the U.S. roster who hail from Philadelphia: Bobby Convey and Chris Albright.

Last night when Phillyist was looking up some baseball stats, we found this cool link to a database of major league baseball uniforms. The database allows you to search for the uniforms of desired teams by league, city, and range of years, and then displays the home and road uniforms of the team for each year in the range.

Chris Mustazza and Phil Sandick, our resident Phillies writers, return this week with talk of one-game wonder Eude Brito, Jim Thome and the Phils' playoff chances heading into September.

After his record-breaking performance in the Homerun Derby, Bobby Abreu has made a name for himself throughout Major League Baseball. Many Phillies fans love the idea of having a high-profile player on the team, but in a season where the team is deficient in several areas – pitching (both starting and relief), catching, etc. – it might be just the time to trade him while he has some value.

A Philadelphia Phillie is in the limelight of an event that spans all of Major League Baseball – and this time it’s not in the context of the MLB 2006 game you’ve been playing on your Playstation 2. Last night, Bobby Abreu shocked the entire baseball community – fans, players, himself -- when he won the 2005 Homerun Derby. It was surreal watching Abreu come up to bat first and crush ball after ball into the right-field stands.

Look at the box score of this game; just look at it. How can you have 9 hits and just one run? In last night’s game versus the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Phillies could not find their way if home they Mapquested it. The story of the night was “stranded runners.” Even with their ace pitcher, Brett Myers, on the mound, the Phils could not pull out the win. Brett Myers pitched a very good game, but it was not enough to overcome Pittsburgh's rookie sensation, Zach Duke, who pitched seven shutout innings. The game was won by a fourth-inning, two-run homer by Humberto Cota. Myers said of his performance, “I made one mistake and I lost the game.'' We can be very rough on our home team, but we give credit where it is due. Brett Myers is an excellent pitcher and we, in no way, fault him for losing this game. It’s true that he gave up the homerun that put the Pirates over the top, but 2 runs should not be an insurmountable lead in Major League Baseball. The Phillies’ bats were just cold when it mattered. The Phillies did manage to find home in one way, though: they found their way home to the basement of the NL East. The Phils are back, once again, to .500 and a half game behind the Mets. They will try to temporarily climb out of the basement tonight, as Robinson Tejeda takes on the first-place Nationals’ Ryan Drese at 7:05pm.