Results tagged “suv”

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...

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and several smiles as well as lots of cash were raised by some plucky urban ironing. London is apparently full of lies and whales: one of these things is true. We leave that up to you to figure out.

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week.

With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

Last Wednesday, I was walking home on my lunch break, and got stopped as someone pulled into the parking garage on Walnut between 18th and 19th. It was a big black SUV. The woman driving it was blasting Shareefa’s “I Need a Boss” and having her own full out dance party to it. I was prepared to be amused (even though that song is my current personal crack—that’s right, Flav has been replaced), but I suddenly felt people starring at me and… laughing? And then I realized that I too had started dancing. Shaking my ass in the middle of Rittenhouse, as it were.

The Philadelphia Zoo, unable to provide their elephants with the space they require, is giving them up to Maryland & Tennessee. Now our old zoo key is extra redundant.

You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater.

So, for their first round draft pick, the Phillies pick a high school hot head who was arrested for public intoxication, mashed up his SUV and likes to curse on the mound. Lovely. Kyle Drabek may be the son of a Cy Young winner, but pedigree don’t mean jack when it comes to winning games and being worth every penny of his signing bonus. We’re not claiming that we were perfect in our youth – there was that incident after prom, and after the soccer championship game. But we weren’t in a position to ask for millions of dollars. Wasn’t there a nice, proven college student out there? We have a piece of advice for the Phillies: why don’t you pick up this book, and read it? You’ll be a few years behind the curve, but later is better than never.

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Dear Philadelphia,