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Charles Tyson will not serve a third term as mayor of South Harrison Township. He is vacating office because he and his family have endured death threats and racist vandalism since he became the town's first black mayor two years ago. At a township reorganization meeting on Monday, the 66-year-old Tyson declined a nomination to continue serving as mayor but agreed to be deputy mayor.

At the memorial service for police Sgt. Timothy Simpson yesterday, Mayor Nutter used that opportunity to vow that he will not rest until the city is safer.

Happy birthday Casey Affleck. We're sorry you have to share a birthday with Muqtada al-Sadr, but it also happens to be the IBM Personal Computer's birthday, too. So call it even?

When skateboarding was banned from Love Park... it didn't really change much. Walking through the other day, we caught a couple of guys on boards jumping off one of the high planters, and wondered if they knew about the ban (a surprising number of people don't, but a bigger number just don't care), or about the very cool Paine's Park Project.

Philebrity applauded the installation of solar panels at the Philadelphia Naval Yard while simultaneously making fun of Naval Yard denizen Urban Outfitters. Maybe next we'll get some windmills. We know of a few places to put them where there's plenty of hot air being blown about.

Here's the buzz in the 215 blogs this week:

Free Yr Radio, a campaign launched by Toyota and Urban Outfitters in support of independent radio, is getting a soundtrack. It's a benefit compilation CD that's coming out tomorrow (a release date chosen to coincide with non-commercial radio's biggest event, the CMJ conference in Manhattan - an event we've gotten more press releases about than we can count). The compilation features a collection of live music, B-side tracks and previously unreleased material from the campaign's participating bands, and it's available exclusively at Urban Outfitters stores nationwide, and from the retailer's catalog and web site at www.urbanoutfitters.com. All profits from the CD will be divided among the campaign's participating radio stations (one of which is our very own Y-Rock on XPN in Philadelphia).

Low-income families in the region are being offered cheap oil for the second year in a row, thanks to Rep. Chaka Fattah, Citgo, and Venezuela. To apply, call Citizens Energy Corp. at 1-877-JOE-4-OIL.

Speaking of holiday shopping, a Philly community group has called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters, due to them selling a gun-shaped Christmas ornament this year.

Cartoonist for the Daily News Signe Wilkinson will appear in the Library of Congress' 2007 "Women Who Dare" desk calendar. Wilkinson was the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize for cartooning.

Philly-based international retailer Urban Outfitters and indie music publication Filter Magazine have banded together to release the third Give.Listen.Help. benefit CD. The CD will be sold exclusively at the 95 Urban Outfitter retail locations nationally, as well as on their website. $8.99 of the $9.99 cost of the CD will be donated to the Komen Foundation (as long as you buy it between now and March 15th of next year), where the money will be...

- Our city's history is hurting us in one important way: it's chasing away college grads from the populous. (via)
-12th Street Gym co-owner and alleged Santorum supporter, Robert Guzzardi, is said to be selling off his interest in the Gayborhood's 12th Street Gym in light of a threatened community boycott. Could Urban Outfitters be next?
-Business Wire is reporting that local author Johnny Ostentatious has published his second novel, Noir Reunion. We know nothing about Johnny or the book; we just really like his pseudonym.
-Lionel Richie may be the headliner for this year's July 4th bash on the Parkway. We're sure there's a "Hello" joke in there somewhere, but we can't come up with it. (via)

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