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November 18, 2011Joyce Evans Earns A Permanent Place In Our HeartsWe asked you yesterday which news anchor you would stalk if you absolutely had to. The male and female winners fell in at the predictable Cecily Tynan and the wildcard Jim Gardner (it has to be the ‘stashe). But we here at Philebs, we have a newfound love for Joyce Evans: Happy Friday everyone. Today In #occupyphilly: Get Back On Our Lawn!
>>>The Occupy Philly protesters marched up towards 30th Street Station where they stopped traffic on the Market Street Bridge and had a bit of a standoff with police. 24 arrests were made. Daily Poll: Cy Young OnesOh hey, we’re going to try doing a Daily Poll each morning now, wherein we ask you, the people of Philadelphia, random things about your life here, and on Earth. Got a question you want to see the people answer? Suggest it at: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. ADVERTISEMENT November 17, 2011This Evening: Twosomes>>>It’s boy/girl duo night at Union Transfer! Phantogram (above) is playing in support of this month’s Nightlife EP, with support from NYC-based duo Exitmusic. And Now, Today’s GOOD NEWS: 13th Street Bike Lane To Stay
Two of the major findings of the pilot period were:
You can read the whole report here. So there you have it: The world is not totally made of shit. Have you got some good news? If so, send it to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com with “GOOD MOTHERFUCKING NEWS!” in the subject header — we’d love to hear about it. ADVERTISEMENT PHILEBRITY RADIO IS ON THE AIR AT 3PM! Or click here to listen with iTunes. Got an HD radio? Tune in to 88.5-2 FM HD! ON THE BIG SHOW TODAY: None of that rap crap! Got a shout-out you want on the air? Tweet us @philebrity and we’ll drop your shout-out at 4:20PM! (more…) Friendly Reminder: Will You Come To Our Homecoming Dance On Black Friday? PHILEBRITY’S HARVEST MOON COTILLION · Friday, November 25th, 9pm @ Johnny Brenda’s On Thanksgiving weekend — indeed, Black Friday and the beginning of the holiday season in earnest — join us as we host Philebrity.com’s (mostly) very proper homecoming dance. Punch (and many other drinks) will be served, both fast and slow dancing will be enjoyed, courtesy SMILE DJs Eddie Austin and Wil Hannan, and there’ll even be a few surprises. NOTE: SEMI-FORMAL ATTIRE (jackets and ties for the guys, dresses for the girls) IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Also, there will be a contests for HARVEST KING & QUEEN and BEST MOUSTACHE. Why moustache, you ask? We’re glad you did: All proceeds from the $5 cover charge will go to Movember, in which men across the country raise money and awareness for the fight against prostate and other men’s cancers; in addition, we’ll be raffling off a special bespoke blazer from our friends at Commonwealth Proper, also to benefit Movember. Stay tuned for more details! Help Us Joe Biden, You’re Our Only HopeSay it Ain’t So, Joe! by Josh Fox/Bill McKibben from JFOX on Vimeo. This coming Monday, there will be a vote in New Jersey to decide whether or not to frack the Delaware River Basin with 20,000 fracked gas wells. The video above explains it all, and urges you to help, by petitioning the one man who could stop it all, Joe Biden. Although the video refers to him once as Senator Amtrak (a name he probably doesn’t enjoy) it stresses that he could be the key to stopping this from happening. To send a message to the Vice President, hop over to Save The Delaware to sign a letter that says, in part, “Hydraulic Fracturing – or Fracking – is a highly dangerous method of drilling for natural gas that risks the safety of our air, water, and food, and threatens the health of our families, communities, and environment and will undoubtedly put into jeopardy these critical considerations in the Delaware River Basin…I urge you to say no to fracking in the Delaware River Basin. The charter of the DRBC calls for it to protect water quality in the basin, and clearly calls for nothing else to be considered above this mandate.” Once again, the vote is this Monday, so if you care about stopping this, let Joe Biden know. And I mean come on, even the Incredible Hulk wants you to help, and you can’t turn down the Incredible Hulk. Seemingly Innocuous Facebook Posting Reveals WXPN Listeners DON’T LIKE THAT RAP CRAP! This is something we’ve suspected on and off for a little while now about the WXPN audience in general — like when we requested that the station add every song off Watch The Throne last summer and IT DIDN’T HAPPEN — but we think that if you read the tea leaves of the conversation above, you’ll find something interesting. Namely, that more than 40 years after the genre’s creation, hip-hop is something that WXPN listeners are still trying to make up their minds about, even as the station (quite rightly) continues to pride itself on being a friend to a multitude of genres. After WXPN posted a pretty innocuous show preview for Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa playing at the Electric Factory on The Key and then cross-posted the link to their Facebook page a couple hours ago, a fierce debate has begun to emerge about the role, if any, hip-hop should play in the station’s programming. It’s notable how the pro-hip-hop side is fairly disgusted by the go-for-the-jugular vociferousness of the anti-hip-hop side, and how, well, the pro-hip-hop side is pretty much right. We’re gonna keep an eye on this, if only because it’s a welcome respite from Sweeney’s frequent Facebook postings about how he doesn’t like Americans, children or The Hold Steady. New Dr. Dog Album Could Well Describe Present Civic Mood Look at that nicotine-stained sky, patched together out of old receipts, looming over blight. It’s called Be The Void, for Chrissakes, and it’s the next album by Dr. Dog, to be released on February 7th on Anti-. (Look, even the release date is BLEAK.) It’s the first album by the group with new drummer Eric Slick and electronics-percussionist-guitarist Dmitri Manos, and according to the press release, it’s promising a meaner, leaner Dr. Dog. Track listing after the jump, though we do wish it indicated which one were Toby songs and which ones are Scott songs, since the Scott songs are the only ones we really bother with. (more…) Today In #occupyphilly: Get Off My Lawn!>>>The retired Philly police chief we told you about yesterday was arrested in NYC. According to Occupy Philly’s Facebook page, he has been identified as Ray Lewis. So far, no reason has been given for his arrest. Daily Poll: Big Time Creepin’Oh hey, we’re going to try doing a Daily Poll each morning now, wherein we ask you, the people of Philadelphia, random things about your life here, and on Earth. Got a question you want to see the people answer? Suggest it at: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. November 16, 2011Breaking: City Delivers De-Facto #occupyphilly Eviction Notice, About To Begin Dilworth Plaza Construction ProjectJust in from City Hall:
[Gets popcorn.] Rainy Day Special: That Weird Pre-Muppets Jim Henson ThingAs we approach a season in which the Muppets will return and potentially become so Disney-fied that even Jason Segel’s penis won’t be able to save them, let us pause for a moment to remember: Jim Henson was a straight-up freak, yo. Also In #occupyphilly: Journalism! The cover of today’s Daily News teases a story about “how the homeless hijacked occupy Philly,” and it’s a bit sensationalist (sensationalism? From The Daily News? NO WAY). As we mentioned briefly below, some occupiers, according to the DN, claim there are anarchists in their midst. Some even claim outside anarchists were bused in to cause problems at Dilworth Plaza, once again according to the DN. If this all sounds a little “back and to the left” for you, there may be a reason for that. Daniel Denvir at City Paper claims it is all nonsense. According to Denvir, he was contacted by the same source the DN used for those pieces of information and decided not to pursue it, saying, “The guy who called me about the anarchist invasion runs a completely unhinged website, and told me that someone had secretly delivered to him a dossier about himself, that he was secretly being surveilled, that the FBI had met with him, and he retweets from Andrew Breitbart and … he seems like a complete wingnut.” But as Denvir points out, Philly itself is pretty anarchist (and the anarchy book store the Wooden Shoe was even used as a stopping point for a march in OP’s early days). So why would anarchists need to be bused in, when they can just show up on their own? With the relations between protesters and the city seemingly falling apart over the last week or so, Denvir says, “All in all, elements amongst the protesters and in City Hall — and factors in cities around the country — have contributed to a rapid souring of the Nutter-Occupy relationship. It seems irresponsible for the People Paper to fan the flames.” Really? Bused in anarchists? Who would even organize that bus trip? Wouldn’t they rally against the organization of the bus trip itself? Wouldn’t someone have noticed a large bus of people screaming things and wearing Rage Against the Machine shirts pulling up to Dilworth Plaza? And on top of that, we’re glad someone agrees with us that if you retweet Andrew Brietbart, we’re going to look at you in a certain way, a way that is not complimentary. Today In #occupyphilly: And Then There Was Poop
>>>A big problem with the public opinion of the occupiers at Dilworth is that they’re standing in the way of jobs. In an opinion piece in the Inky, the numbers we’ve hard before are echoed: “the Dilworth makeover would mean more than 800 union construction jobs over a 27-month period, and a smaller number of permanent jobs when the plaza work is completed.” And it’s not only here, according to Talking Points Memo, the opinion is flipping on the Occupy movement in NYC and as a whole. According to a poll they conducted, 45% of those polled were opposted to OWS, compared to 36% last month. Support numbers also dropped slightly. >>>WHYY’s Newsworks posted an interview with George Ciccariello-Maher, Assistant Professor of History and Politics at Drexel University, about how the city can deal with a leaderless movement, and how the communication between to two actually works. It’s a brief and worthy listen. >>>According to AllVoices, a man showed up at Zucotti Park yesterday in full, Philadelphia Police uniform. The man did not give his name but identified himself as a retired Philadelphia Police Chief who now spends his time being a, “gentleman farmer.” He caught the attention of Police officers, but doesn’t seem to have been arrested. >>>And finally, according to Philadelphia Weekly, Citizens Bank Park workers who are trying to get a new contract with Aramark were joined by OP protesters for a march on Aramark’s HQ. The workers, who were last seen protesting outside CBP during the Phillies’ short playoff run, marched to Aramark chanting and holding signs, and upon arrival presented an Aramark rep with a letter to management. They were told that Aramark would get back to them. Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To See Tinariwen Tonight At The Trocadero!Desert rockers Tinariwen (who really have quite the interesting biography) are touring behind their 5th studio album Tassili, and are playing the Troc tonight with Sophie Hunger & The Psalters, and we have a pair of tickets to give you. To enter to win, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “Desert Rock” in the subject header. You’ll automatically be subscribed to the forthcoming new Philebrity Reader weekly newsletter and win chances for other exclusive free stuff. The show is tonight so we’ll be pulling winners soon. Get those emails in. Noontime Nuggetz: The Hooters, “And We Danced,” The Spectrum, Thanksgiving Day 1987We feel that by posting this, we are doing our part in exorcising the civic demons that have overtaken us all in these last weeks. Also, this is is from a concert that was broadcast live on Thanksgiving Day in 1987 on MTV. Crazy to think of the pull the Hooters had, ain’t it? Kurt Vile Manager Gets To Actually Explain How Real Life Is Not Like Fugazi
Actually, though, we’re of two minds about this: We hear what Jaffe’s saying, but BoA is kind of THE WORST. Then again, those who live by the real life is not like Fugazi must die by the real life is not like Fugazi, so start putting us on blast in the comments. Whatever. Mostly, we’d just hate to see any static between KV and his neighbor in Fishtown, the “I Hate Bank Of America” guy. | YOUR PHILEBRITY.COM: Editor & Co-Founder: Joey Sweeney Contributing Editor: Jim Adair Contributing Writers: Conor Corcoran Schoolly D Ad Sales & Marketing/Promos: Katie Winkler Interns: Madeline Bates Sharon Margolis Co-Founder/Philebritus Emeritus: Benny Philebrity Send listings info here. NOTICE: Interns wanted.
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So here’s what we understand happened last night:
Starting last May, the Mayors Office of Transportation and Utilities began a pilot program to see if a bike lane could work on 13th Street, between South and Hamilton Streets. In a report compiled by MOTU, it was decided, “The data collected during the pilot validates the public and our intuition: vehicle traffic flows well with a bike lane and the street attracts lots of cyclists.”
>>>As we mentioned earlier, Police made two more arrests at Occupy Philly yesterday and found, “someone painted the concourse walls below the plaza with feces and graffiti.” Painted with feces. They’re nothing if not artsy. 
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