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Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'muttermuseum'

April 29, 2008

"Police removed a large suitcase filled with human remains from a rowhouse in South Philadelphia yesterday." The case has not been ruled a homicide. The older man living in the rowhouse is being cooperative and is apparently not connected to the suitcase. The suspicion is that the remains may be those of a baby reported missing in Baltimore several months ago. An autopsy will be performed today. "State Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille......

Continue Reading "Yo, Philly in the News"

March 7, 2008

F is for freedom. R is for relaxing. I is for imbibing. D is for designated driver. A is for after-party. Y is for, um, yodeling? Oh whatever, it's Friday people, so look alive and act like it! Get the blood pumping by singing along, to the tune of "This Is How We Do It": This is how we Fridaaaaay....this is how we fri-i-i-day. La da da da di da da da...this is how......

Continue Reading "Can't Miss This!"

October 27, 2006

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Puppet Uprising: Puppet Uprising brings in the holiday with "Alice & Frank: The work of Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley from the Victorian Era to the Information Age presented in the form of two fine puppet shows by Toronto's Stranger Theatre and Philadelphia's Shoddy Puppet Company." 8PM at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street). Free - with a suggested donation of $5 - $10. Improv with the N......

Continue Reading "Frugal Fun Alert: Weekend"

August 18, 2005

Last week, one of Philly's obscure attractions was featured on the History Channel-- and we missed it! Thankfully for us, Weird U.S.'s trip to the Mutter Museum is being replayed tonight, twice. According to the History Channel's site: Based on the best-selling book of the same name, Weird U.S. is a deliciously demented weekly tour of offbeat American history. Host/authors Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran scour the country in search of the bizarre, the......

Continue Reading "TV Tonight: Weird and Sunny"

August 10, 2005

Have you ever wondered what happened to the tumor that was removed from President Grover Cleveland’s face during that secret surgery back in 1893? Here at Phillyist we can’t go more than a few days without someone agitatedly voicing their conspiratorial concerns with the lengths that the government has taken to conceal GC’s mystery growth. Was it the CIA? Did aliens snatch it? Chappaquiddick, was it Chappaquiddick? It could have been Chappaquiddick. Even Robert Stack......

Continue Reading "House Of 20,000 Corpses"

July 25, 2005

It looks like we were a little premature when it came to announcing NBC's new series, The Law Firm. We were just so eager to see if the contestants were as prone to passionate eyebrow-scrunching as Law and Order's http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order/bios/Sam_Waterston.html">Sam Waterston that we announced it a week early. The Law Firm actually premieres this Thursday at 10 pm. And though it is nearly impossible to find a funny sitcom anymore, this week Bravo is offering......

Continue Reading "Your Phillyist TV Picks: Week of July 24th"

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