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Weinberg Park is a small, triangular park located at Moyamensing Avenue, 6th and Jackson Streets in South Philadelphia. It's about a block and a half above Mifflin Square, and shares some of the same problems with that park—mainly litter. Often, seeing loads of trash on the ground makes me want to scream. But, in all fairness to the users of the park, the garbage can was overflowing. So, really, there was nowhere else for the crushed Old English cans and empty cigarette packs to go but on the ground. There may also be an issue with short dumping in the park as well, as bottles of car windshield wash were gathered around the trashcan. So unless someone was chilling out at the park with a bottle of washer fluid, it looks as though they made a special trip to the park to put their empty bottle on the ground. How thoughtful. In the random and kinda strange category, an empty Pathmark shopping cart was parked at the 6th Street and Moyamensing Avenue corner.

When I was thirteen, my friends and I went to a haunted maze at the mall. I was so annoyed by the end, with the predictable gimmicks and cheap thrills, that when Freddy Kreuger jumped out at me a few feet from the exit I may or may not have punched him in the face. (The statute of limitations on assault has passed by now, right?) That wasn't the only time time I'd found myself decidedly unimpressed, or even annoyed, by a haunted maze, so I'll admit that I was a bit skeptical about Brat Productions' Haunted Poe, a sort of theatrical house of horrors, all centered on the life and work of a little-known writer by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

In October, many local theatre companies try to put on a Halloween-related production. Brat Productions' Haunted Poe is the one we're most excited for this season.

The New York Times' Travel section ran a piece today that calls Philadelphia a "destination city"—something we could have told them years ago. We're happy that The Times has finally decided to show the City of Brotherly Love a little affection (instead of that Sixth Borough crap from a few years ago), but we'd like to point out that their recommended schedule is almost as improbable as the route of the Rocky run.

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. Hell, it's not even a holiday celebrated in all of Mexico. (Wikipedia actually has a decent explanation here.) But, here in America, we like to use the holiday as an excuse to get wasted anyway. (It's like St. Patrick's Day, but with tequila.)

The Boss was in town last week for what was presumably his last visit to the Spectrum before its demolition. Tickets sell out before you could get yours? Here's some of what you missed.

20 year old Devon, PA resident Kevin Bacci will serve work release, pay restitution, and spend 4 years on probation for being a bully. Bacci was apparently teasing a Geno's Steaks employee when a second employee stepped in to defend the first. Tony Chestnut's kind gesture got him body-slammed—twice. The sentence is reasonable enough, but when "fractured vertebrae" are involved, it takes a powerful appeal to our modern sense of justice not to wish there was an eye-for-an-eye option somewhere in the sentencing guidelines.

Since we know you are all well-informed Philly-loving citizens, you are well aware that the City of Brotherly Love has tripped and fallen into a pit of budgetary fire and brimstone. Last fall, Mayor Nutter announced that the City had to cut $1 billion from its budget over the next five years, so $200 million each year, effective immediately. And he did so primarily by closing 13 libraries, all but a handful of the 70+ public swimming pools the city operates, and a number of fire stations as well. He also made general cuts all around, to programs that many Philadelphians hold dear, such as the Mural Arts Program and Philadelphia Green.

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.

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

Dear Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festivals:

South Philadelphia is a unique collection of narrow streets, old-world traditions and curse words. Hidden amongst the proud blue-collar glaze of cheese-whiz and Catholicism lies a number of fascinating mysteries, mysteries that have never penetrated the protective border of Washington Avenue.

• The Daily News has more on how faulty the emergency radio system is, and also a bit on how personnel are under-trained on its functionality. Meanwhile, PHA cops have similar problems with their radios.
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The route followed in this video is about as plausible as Rocky's run. But hey, let's post it anyway!