Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Christopher followed up on last week's Asshole of the Week by pointing out something very strange: while Commissioner Ramsey's name was spelled correctly in the Inqy article we......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Editor Jim found this Inky error while compiling Tuesday's news post. As of yet, the error hasn't been corrected. Hey, isn't this what newspapers hire copy editors for?......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It may be an ad for a book about Spam, but it's also a really neat little movie featuring stop-motion animation via artfully toasted bread! (Via Sarah) Lake Superior State University has concocted its 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. Meanwhile, on the eve of the American Dialect Society (ADS) voting for its......

The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at how yesterday's shocking assassination of Benazir Bhutto is affecting Pakistani Americans living in the Philadelphia area. After a three month pause, a grand jury resumed its investigation yesterday into wealthy businessman, and owner of the Mount Airy Casino Resort, Louis A. DeNaples. DeNaples is suspected of lying to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board about his connections to organized crime. DeNaples' brother Eugene, a former state gambling investigator, showed......

CBS 3 anchor Alycia Lane was arrested at 2:04 AM yesterday at the corner of W. 17th Street and 9th Avenue in NYC for allegedly punching a female police officer in the face. She was locked up in a New York jail cell as of yesterday afternoon. More on this story later. (Via Jason) TV star Bam Margera of West Chester, along with business partner and bar owner Don Moore, plans "to open a theater,......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Bring a Flashlight: Winter Nighthike for Adults sponsored by Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, 5:30PM. Call to pre-register and to learn the meeting place (215-482-7300). $7 Solstice Film Series 07: First installment of the Solstice Film Series, a showcase for short independent films, at National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd), 8PM. Free The Campbell Apartment: The Campbell Apartment, Griz, and The Goodnightlights at The Manhattan Room (15 W. Girard),......

The Inquirer has an article about the Philadelphia Community Cats Council, a group of folks trying to manage and reduce the city's huge feral cat population, estimated to be at least 250,000. They do this by trapping feral cats, neutering them, and then returning them where they were found. Both the Daily News and the Inquirer have articles about Sharon Hill native John Patrick Foley and his elevation this weekend to the status of Cardinal......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. A friend of Editor Jim's pointed us toward this post on A Thousand Times No which both made for interesting reading and a great Proofreading Philly feature. The last paragraph......

"Officers from the State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement in Philadelphia conducted a special underage drinking detail in the Lincoln Financial Field parking lot" before the Temple-Penn State football game Saturday and arrested 31 underage tailgaters, as well as one more for presenting false identification. City police were trying to break up a dispute between two rival groups of young men in Gray's Ferry Saturday night when the young men opened fire on......

Prominent Philadelphia trial lawyer Dennis Cogan may defend state Senator Fumo, if he can get the case delayed for several months so he can study up on all its complexities. On November 14th, Penn Praxis will unveil its vision for the Delaware River waterfront, which is based on discussions with residents and representatives of commercial and government interests. But details about the plan have already come out, and although it has many supporters, it......

Prepare to be insulted! A recent survey of visitors and residents of 25 cities ranked Philadelphia as the home of the least attractive people in the United States. Apparently we're also among the least stylish, least active, least friendly, and least worldly. Well, we don't know about all of those things, but these results certainly make us feel pretty unfriendly at the moment... (Via Jen) As another new tactic in the fight against crime and......

Boy, did I wake up to good news this morning!? As it states on page D2 of today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Brian Tierney’s publication has stripped Stephen A. Smith of his column-writing duties, effective immediately. They have stated that they want him to return to reporting, which, since he spends most of his time in cities not named Philadelphia, is probably code for “Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?” Now I don’t want to rush to......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Apparently, in the next three to 10 years we're expecting scientists to create artificial life. Um... does that freak anybody else out?! Didn't Dr. Frankenstein decide this was a bad idea? If you've even seen the ads for Superbad, you know there's a sequence where a character creates a fake ID with the name "McLovin" on it. Well, now you can......

Stephen A. Smith is an evil, evil man. There is simply no other way that this can be said. His predictable contrarianism and sloppy sentence structure have polluted the Philadelphia Inquirer for too long. In a sports page loaded with boring, mind-numbing craftsmen (basketball analyst David Aldridge being one notable exception), he stands out for his lack of insight and excess of pointless bluster. Expecting to get insight from a Stephen A. Smith column is......

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a disturbingly effective visual aide that brings together the homicide data from last year - data we are quickly on our way to surpassing in 2007. Philadelphia was once referred to as the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ but lately, it has been making a name for itself as one of the most violent and murderous cities in the nation. A recent Inquirer article said that the murder rate is indicative of......

We're just going to get right to the point this week. The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville is hosting its annual showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show this Saturday at 10 PM. Tickets are on sale now, so get your fishnets and your best bustier ready to do the time warp. Again. As if that were not enough to convince you that the Colonial is a national treasure, consider this: they're also hosting a screening......

Apple's iPhone finally gets released tomorrow, and the Inquirer has a piece about how geeks in the area are freaking out in anticipation; after all, the buzz has been building since the thing was announced months ago. Here's a story to disturb and frighten you: a report released yesterday reveals that in the months leading up to the end of last year, 175 surgical mistakes were made in Pennsylvania, including really horrific errors, like a......

The Philadelphia Inquirer has some more details about the madness that went down at West Philly High on Monday, as well as fall-out over the removal of the school's principal last week. Meanwhile, West Philly High isn't the only Philadelphia school experiencing violence and insanity; the Abigail Vare Public School on Moyamensing Avenue and Morris Street in South Philly went into lockdown Monday afternoon after a shooting occurred at a basketball court across the street.......

Introducing Scooter Libby in... The Fall Guy Here he comes to save the day (or Dick Cheney's ass)! Philadelphia Inquirer: Libby found guilty in CIA trial Image credit: Flickr user swaters......

As we've known for some time, the Philadelphia Zoo will soon be shipping its elephants away. The last two weekends in March will be Elephun Days at the Zoo, and will be packed with farewell activities and photo opportunities. The Zoo has even issued elephant trading cards. Okay, we're going to stop talking about this now before we start to tear up... The Inquirer looks at why there won't by a female mayor of......

In a disturbing article, the Philadelphia Inquirer points out that there are still serious problems inside the city's Department of Human Services, despite a big policy overhaul a few years ago. In case you were not aware, the Flower Show started this weekend. We'll be posting more about this later, but for now, enjoy the Inquirer's preview, which includes a short history of the show, and an explanation of its theme ("Legends of Ireland").......

Milton Street's court-appointed lawyer in his corruption trial (not his NJ traffic ticket trial; try to keep up!) couldn't come to an agreement with her client on how to handle his case, so she's withdrawing from the case. Street can't afford to hire his own lawyer (what's he been spending his money on? Not paying traffic tickets, that's for sure), so he's being appointed a new one, although the judge pointed out he probably......

What with all the stuff going on recently with their staff and students, including a former professor pleading guilty to charges of producing child pornography abroad, Penn is understandably thinking of being a bit more strict about who they let in. Some changes they're considering are performing criminal background checks on prospective faculty, and requiring students to divulge criminal convictions on their applications. Mayoral candidate Dwight Evans has decided to embrace wholeheartedly a demographic the......

It's President's Day! Many, including yours truly, don't get the day off (boo!), but some places are closed. The Philadelphia Inquirer has the handy list. Interstates 78, 80, and 81 were all locked up and shut down for a good part of last week, mostly due to poor response to the ice and snow, and to accidents caused by same. Worst of all was I-78, which for a while had a 50-mile backup, stranding......

We know we told you about this earlier today, but there's no such thing as too much coverage on a good, or entertaining, story. This promises to be both. Common logic dictates that if, mere months ago you were indicted for tax fraud, your chances of winning a mayoral race are slim. Same for if you don’t live in the city where you are seeking office. Or the same state in which that city is......

The snow storm came to Philly, and it was worse than was originally expected! Many schools in the area yesterday dismissed students early and/or cancelled after-school events. A couple of crazy bastards parachuted down off the Comcast Center Sunday morning. Of course, as is requisite these days when you do something stupid and dangerous, a video was taken and promptly posted on YouTube (although sadly, it has since been taken down). Police are looking for......

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, State Senator Vincent Fumo (D., Phila) has been under FBI investigation for the last four years. He is being accused of using "the assets of the charity Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods and his senate office staff for his own personal and political benefit." In order to preemptively address a potential indictment, Fumo: ...said he would step down as the ranking Democrat on the powerful senate Appropriations Committee, but would......

That ramp at the Linc was swaying again, and this time the movement was even caught on tape. But engineers still insist the ramp is safe and sound. Regardless, it sounds like during the off-season they're going to try to find a way to make it not sway, so fans don't get so freaked out all the time. Fighting crime is clearly going to be the big issue in the 2008 mayoral race, so......

The Daily News has a sad and disturbing calendar up, listing by day the name and age of every one of last year's homicide victims. Sadly, with the turn of the year, little has changed; minutes into 2007, another young man was killed by gunfire, this time at the hands of police. He and at least four other even younger males were firing guns into the air from a porch roof in the 1700......

Philly.com, unsurprisingly, has a couple more stories about the Mummers for us. One is about a veteran Mummers costume designer, and the other is a heartwarming tale about how the Mummers gave one man his life back after a terrible accident nearly destroyed him. The wife of a University of Pennsylvania economics professor was beaten to death in her Main Line home last Friday, and evidence now suggests that what appeared to be a......