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Denzel Washington Will Be In Philadelphia

See? This is why Ivy League students get ahead. Looks like famous actor Denzel Washington will be delivering the commencement address at Penn this year. […]

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Charlie Sheen in Atlantic City

His Radio City Music Hall gigs are sold out, so mark your calendars for Charlie Sheen’s April 16th appearance at the Taj. The Scoop could […]

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Flower Show Posts Success

The 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show got a 12 percent bump in attendance this year, with 265,000 visitors. That reverses the downward trend from last […]

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Philly to Become NYC’s Seventh Borough?

Well, the Scoop has certainly enjoyed crouching in New York’s prominent shadow while it lasted. Seems Mayor Bloomberg is making a big push to spruce […]

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Quirk Books Justifies the Existence of Crazy Cat Ladies

The Scoop digests quite a bit of the Internet each day, but this blog post from Quirk Books ranks among the oddest things he’s seen. […]

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Suck It, Phoenix

Paging Noah. The National Weather Service predicts that, following the onslaught of rain over the past couple days, we could see some serious river-flooding. Of […]

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Delaware River Water Quality Report

Today at EPA forums about the Delaware River, scientists said there are concerns about water quality due to global warning and natural gas drilling. Maybe […]

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Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia Names Names

Oddly coinciding with Ash Wednesday (which is not, guilt-ridden lapsed Catholics should note, a holy day of obligation), the Archdiocese of Philadelphia released all 21 […]

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Revival of The Philadelphia Story With Jon Hamm?

Mad Men star Jon Hamm recently did a staged reading of The Philadelphia Story in L.A. Could this mean a Broadway revival of the play […]

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Battle of the Whoopie Pies

Uh Oh. The Amish Are Pissed. Folks in Maine have filed a bill proposing the whoopie pie be named the official state dessert of the […]

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PHL Gets Al-Qaeda Coverage

Budget Talk. Mayor Nutter is going forward with presenting his $4 billion city budget tomorrow to City Council, though no one knows what will happen […]

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Puppy Mills Coming Back?

A House Committee Debated Puppy Mills Today (Again). A resolution sponsored by Lancaster Representative Gordon Denlinger would reopen debate on the 2008 law signed by […]

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So That’s What Those Drexel Kids Are Up To

The Princeton Review, along with GamePro Media, compiled a Top 10 list ranking the best places to study video game design, and Drexel University landed […]

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Lenny Dykstra Loves Charlie Sheen

Lenny Dykstra raves about Charlie Sheen and partying at his house sober. The Scoop assumes the two hooked up at a meeting of crazy. [Deadspin]