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Chelsea Clinton in Gay Philly Bar Romp
"'I grabbed her ass,' one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter." More »
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Crime Doesn't Pay, But Neither Does Gay Porn
As Fleshbot reported earlier this week, big trouble for gay porn stars in Philly! A pair of twins, those adorable scamps, got into a pinch of mischief: arrested for rooftop robberies! Fun fact: "The twins are the focus of a tristate Rooftop Burglary Task force, led by New Jersey investigators, the state where many of the 40-some rooftop burglaries have been committed over the last 18 months," reports the Philadelphia Daily News. After the jump: Keyontyli Goffney's modeling portfolio. (His brother, bad seed Taleon, mainly has a rap sheet a mile long. He once escaped from cops by swimming across a pond, yelling, "You can't catch me!") More »
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The Alycia Lane Story
Do you want to read ten tragic pages about the life of mixed-up cop-slugging former fucking reporter you fucking dyke Alycia Lane? It's got everything—crying to Dr. Phil, emailing bikini photos to Rich Eisen's wife, and, yes, slugging a lady cop. In Philadelphia those three actions basically make you the equivalent of Britney Spears, public meltdown-wise. [Philadelphia Mag]
Cop-Slug Anchor Ankles Sixth Boro
Cop-slugging Philly anchor woman Alycia Lane—fired from her affiliate and reportedly contemplating a wrongful dismissal suit against them—is selling her luxury Philadelphia condo. There's no word yet on where she's moving (besides HOT LADIES' PRISON). [NYP]
Cop-slugging Philly anchor woman Alycia Lane—fired from her affiliate and reportedly contemplating a wrongful dismissal suit against them—is selling her luxury Philadelphia condo. There's no word yet on where she's moving (besides HOT LADIES' PRISON). [NYP]
Cop-slug anger-woman Alycia Lane's Philly CBS affiliate sorta apologized to the Philadelphia Gay News for their employee's alleged use of an anti-lesbian slur when she punched that cop. CBS3 also pointed out that they are "one of two stations in Philadelphia to employ openly gay on-camera people." Some of their best on-camera friends are dyke bitches! [Philly.com]
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Hot Hack Begs Guv Ed For Help
'COP-SLUG' ANGER-WOMAN Alycia Lane's jail phone call was made to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. Why? Because he is a very influential person who would assist her in getting her side of the story out, not so that he could try to spring her from jail! All good journalists know that the best way to get a story out is by going through a politician, so that he can tell some journalists about it. Like Governor Ed did morning, when he called up a Philly morning show to explain that the whole thing has been a misunderstanding. More »
Philadelphia is full of the homely and the unhappy homos—but does that alone justify the city being called "one big West Village"? Maybe yes? [NYT]
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Philadelphia Is Desperate For New York's Homosexuals
Remember when Jessica Pressler named Philadelphia New York's Sixth Borough and we all laughed and then Philly started to run ads soliciting New Yorkers? Well, the intervening two years have, somehow, not made that trend story any more true. However. While we've noted here that the gays turn up their noses at the thought of Philly, that does not mean that Philly does not crave our homosexuals. In just a few short weeks, Philly's brokers are coming to New York's gay center to recruit, recruit, recruit! What are their little posters around town promising the gays? "An exciting cosmopolitan lifestyle with great entertainment and dining options, but at a less hectic pace then [sic] NYC." Um. AS. IF.
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The Gays Offer Advice On Visiting Philadelphia
Ah, Philly, our sister city of brotherly love, or something like that. Once, for an incredibly brief and misguided period of time, it was considered our sixth borough. (For the next three weeks, obviously, our sixth borough is East Hampton.) But you know: it's still kind of better than that craphole Boston! What do the gays over at remarkably catty message board Datalounge recommend to do in Philly? More »
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Panicked Weekend 'WSJ' Flees To The Sixth Borough, Where The Rich Just Aren't
It hasn't been a good week for what is sometimes referred to metonymically as "the street." Is Depression just around the corner? Perhaps! But with great economic downtowns come great cultural possibility, and if it takes the collapse of the Chinese manufacturing bubble, the dollar, Web 2.0, and VH1 Classics to give the two-year-old Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition a reason for being, then we are ready to do our part and stand in a breadline or two. Indeed, with the Dow downward spiraling and the post-Greenspan, post-nation-state Fed floundering, this week's WSJ Pursuits section hits on such grandeur and tragedy that it might well mark the birth of a novel expressive form; magic realism for the MBA caste. More »
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Philadelphia Blog Fights Just as Stupid as New York Blog Fights
If you'd any doubts about the sixth borough's inferiority issues, take note: Philadelphia bloggers have resorted to teacup-sized dramatics in what can only be interpreted as a desperate attempt to assert their place in the primarily New York-based pantheon of bitchy bloggers. As reported by Philly's Daily News, the collaboraters behind Philly media-gossip-culture-catch-all blog Philebrity, Joey Sweeney and Jonathan Valania, have ended their blogationship. Yep, this is the stuff Philly media gossip is made of: More »
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Remainders: The Lexus And The Motherfucking Olive Tree
• Coffee-chucking State Sen. Ada Smith also proficient at throwing phones. [NYDN]• We're trying to think of something more embarrassing than plagiarizing Office Pirates for your MySpace blog. Maybe reading Office Pirates in the first place. Either way, a close run thing. [OP]
• Tom Friedman uses a bad word in his NYT column. Expect Maureen Dowd to try out "hot piece of twat" this weekend. [HuffPo]
• When it comes to rescuing American students, of course we'd save our bright young Ivy Leaguers first. There'll always be plenty more Rutgers grads to man the McDonald's. [ABC]
• Say goodbye to the man who invented the Philly cheesesteak. This is the other place: You can say goodbye in any language you want. [Philly.com]
• Eliot Spitzer goes after that all-important "your hippie dad" vote. [NYT]
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Mob in Philly Acts on Unspoken Desires of America at Large
Philadelphia Will Do directs us to this video of crusading journalist Geraldo Rivera visiting the City of Brotherly Love to investigate a plot to whack him. It's pretty much what you'd expect (i.e., a lot of Italian guys with whiny voices yelling, "Hey, get outta my face") but what struck us when watching was this: Why do we need the Philly mob to put a hit on Geraldo? We're New York Fuckin' City, our mob can kick your mob's ass. This sixth borough shit is getting out of control. More »
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And Finally, Just a Little Bit, We Start to Feel the Brotherly Love
The Philly Daily News is running those proposed "Move to Philly" ads, inspired by Jessica Pressler's sixth-borough article from last year. Some are as silly as the sixth-borough concept itself — like a subway map with all the lines redirecting toward Philadelphia — but some, well, we're starting to see the point they're making here. More »
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Jessica Pressler Continues to Wreak Her Philadelphian Havoc
And where did the idea for the campaign come from, according to Metro? More »
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Remainders: Joe Lieberman Shits in the Woods
• Apparently Joe Lieberman has some sort of bet going to determine how stupid voters in Connecticut really are. [YouTube]• When an outfit like The Nation calls something "the stupidest press release ever" you need to sit up and take note: It's got to be egregiously dumb to stand out amongst all the touts for new bongs and "progressive netroots" conferences. [The Nation]
• American Apparel flack responds to 2005 resignation letter; apparently, Dov Charney is so saintly that if you threw him out of a plane, he'd float up. [Consumerist]
• Philadelphia follows lead of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, bans smoking. Racist cheesesteaks still available. [Philadelphia Will Do]
• Britney Spears has no plans to birth newest Federline in Namibia, decides it's just as easy to sob yourself to sleep here in the U.S.A. [People]
• The Daily News doesn't need a touching quote to make us cry - they can just keep running that unsightly picture of Lloyd Grove each day. [Observer]
• Jack Shafer's not gonna be happy until every single American child is on the drugs. Also, he ran with a tough crowd in high school [Slate]
• Ann Coulter calls for assassination of Pennsylvania congressman; weary nation yawns, wonders who said it first. [ThinkProgress]
• A heartwarming story about respect. [OINY]
• OMG, this is SO. FUCKING. CUTE. [Corporate Casual]
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Gossip Roundup: Jeremy Piven, Here and There
• Battle of the randoms: Stephen Dorff and Jeremy Piven get in sissy-slapping contest at Bungalow 8, mostly because Dorff cut in front of Piven in the bathroom line. Dorff's defense: "At least I am a movie star - you're only on TV! Cable TV!" True, but at least he's not Stephen Dorff. [Page Six]• Meanwhile, Karolina Kurkova tolerates Piven's awkward flirting. [R&M]
• K-Fed gets jealous about Britney's manny taking over the domestic duties, but not jealous enough to put down the pipe for two seconds and change a diaper. [Scoop]
• Billy Bragg thinks Rupert Murdoch is trying to steal your MySpace content. Hungover hipsters suddenly rethink posting crappy music from unsigned bands. [Lowdown]
• Poor Philly endures the return of a 9-foot-tall statue of Sylvester Stallone. [Fox411]
• Newly sober Full House legend Jodie Sweetin has signed with Fuse to host their upcoming competition, Pants-Off Dance-Off. She'd probably want to keep the meth around for that one. [Page Six]
