She really is too cute to be second wife. Spotted at Friday night’s benefit for Heartworks, which continues through this weekend.
[Photo credit and more photos at: Constance Mensh]

We had stopped checking the mail altogether in the hopes that the $68 million dollar check would show up for Philly to keep “The Gross Clinic”, the legendary Thomas Eakins painting that Jefferson University so dickishly held for ransom last year. Both the Philadelphia Museum Of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts [...]

Wawa Inc. is closing its store at 20th and Chestnut Streets on May 2, said store manager Gwen Harris. She said some workers would move to the Wawa at 21st and Hamilton. Wawa has closed five of its 10 Center City stores in recent years, the company told the Philadelphia Daily News in February.
… And [...]

I worked on the election day disaster that was the Obama campaign in South Philly.
Basically how it worked on election day was a couple of geniuses from out-of-town places like DC & North Carolina were in charge of a bunch volunteers from Philly and other places. All of the out-of-town geniuses (who you basically [...]

>>> As we settle into our collective hammocks after a long day of post-primary statistics, let’s not forget our obligations to the struggling booze and concert industries: There’s the mumbly indie pop/rock of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at JB’s and the Captain Freeshit’ed Animal Collective at Electric Factory.
>>> And down at Barbary [...]

While Philadelphia generally seems to know as much about recycling as Mr. Burns did in a fateful Simpsons episode, yesterday’s Earth Day gave them a chance to introduce single-stream recycling to 150,000 households in North and Northeast Philly. As a handy Inquirer graphic shows us, that’s on top of similar expansions in March and [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Philadelphia Parking Authority. Parked in a handicapped spot.
Previously: Surprise! Reality Show About Philadelphia Parking Authority Most Likely A Soul-Sucking, Infuriating Bore

From the UArts-based friend of a reader:

Seems the University of the Arts has dropped a load of money to celebrate the arrival and inauguration of President Sean T. Buffington [pictured], while neglecting to give much of its staff a cost-of-living increase, even though their Staff Council made it a point to meet with Buffington [...]

After the jump, Tony Carpenter enjoys the breezes of a near perfect April .

· Dan Sullivan, owner/designer of the British shoe company Irregular Choice, will visit Bus Stop Boutique from 5:30 to 8:30pm Friday while DJ Under douses everyone in Brit jams. There’ll be food and bevies, plus freebies for the early birds. [BusStopBoutique]
· As so colorfully illustrated at left, 2one5 is offering a limited season-appropriate grab [...]

As drug crushes go, we haven’t forgotten you, sweet khat. We know it’s unrequited and that your name is pronounced “COT” — not “KAY-HAT” — but you know which we prefer. Alas, it looks like we’ll be kept apart a while longer, given Saturday’s seizure of 81 sweet pounds of you at Philadelphia International [...]

iPod ad overexposure aside, Feist has always been the most fun thing to drop into our laps from the Broken Social Scene family tree. Her breakthrough album The Reminder last year led to a string of Grammy noms and now this swanky show at the Academy of Music on Sunday April 27. And Miss [...]

Philly expats Panda Riot doing a short, sleepy, shoegazey cover of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” — minus the gunfire and ca-ching — at the Khyber a while back. Aw shucks.

Yes, in what’s being called “the largest arts bailout in the city’s history,” the Kimmel Center has bolstered its endowment and paid off its longtime construction debt with the considerable help of, well, a bunch of rich people. According to the press release, it took “a group of area philanthropies, private donors, and its [...]

Further proof that Dan Gross has the best job in the world.
Dan Gross: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

>>> Philly visibly rallied for Obama. Unfortunately, it’s a big state. [CNN]
>>> Word of the day? “Bruised.” [Um, Everywhere]
>>> But hey, at least first-time voters can stoke that beer-pong vibe you’ve been hankerin’ for. [Metro]
>>> Lesson: When beaten and cornered, Johnny Doc will delude himself evermore and lean heavily on dusty sports analogies:
Dougherty congratulated [...]

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Holy shit, Larry! We didn’t know you had it in ya! Congrats, bro!
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Pennsylvania - 178 of 287 Precincts Reporting - 62%
Farnese , Lawrence Dem 19,323 42%
Dougherty , John Dem 18,856 41%
UPDATE: HOLY SHIT!
Pa. 1st State Senate District:
State Senate - District 1 - Dem Primary
Pennsylvania - 205 of 287 Precincts Reporting - 71%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Farnese , Lawrence Dem 22,565 43%
Dougherty , John Dem 21,360 40%
Dicker , Anne Dem 9,163 [...]

Pa. 1st State Senate District:
State Senate - District 1 - Dem Primary
Pennsylvania - 99 of 287 Precincts Reporting - 34%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Dougherty , John [...]