Results tagged “sixthborough”

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.

Curbed reported yesterday that the recently-opened Nu Hotel in Brooklyn sported a pretty big error on their website: a shot of the Philadelphia skyline instead of their own. The error has since been remedied, but for a few hours, we could pretend that Philadelphia was in view of Brooklyn's shores.

Normally we could start this post with some quip about chasing off the winter doldrums with some laughter. But seeing as how the mercury is riding high today, and should be for a while, we got nothing. That’s why we’re not comedians. Luckily, there are some very talented folks who are, and they are presenting a 5-day smorgasbord of improv and sketch comedy goodness for your gluttonous consumption.

Local indie rockers Rifle Nice wrote in to let Phillyist and our readers know that their new album, , is available for download or pre-order (if you like your cds oldschool) from their website, riflenice.com. (We love a band that keeps things eponymous - it makes things so much simpler for us to remember that way.)