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14 Things Philadelphia Needs for Christmas

The holiday season approaches. Bah humbug. My Christmas Scrooge emerges around this time. It’s not the decorating and baking and shopping that get to me; […]

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The 11 Most Annoying Christmas Songs

Let me start by saying this: there are a lot of Christmas songs I love. I mean, really love. Nat King Cole’s “Christmas Song”? Awesome. […]

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The Ultimate All-Time Philly Cocktail Party

In Philly Mag’s current “List Issue,” there is the “Ultimate Philly Cocktail Party,” to which I somehow got an invite. (My friends are convinced that […]

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The 5 Most Absurd Laws Still on the Books in Philly

1. 10-601 of the Philadelphia Code (enacted 1903) prohibits spitting on city streets, sidewalks, subways and floors and passageways of public buildings. Unenforced today (maybe […]

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The 10 Most Beloved Philly Athletes of All Time

1. Richie Ashburn A Hall of Fame center fielder with the Phils; his broadcast partnership with Harry Kalas made him a beloved figure here for […]

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The 4 Most Annoying White People in Philadelphia

Andy Reid He should “do a better job of putting himself in a position to win,” to paraphrase the man himself. Which realistically means he […]

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Philly is America’s Most “Sports-Crazed” City

Travel + Leisure has released a list of the country’s most “sports-crazed” cities and Philly tops the list. Now if the Eagles can get above […]

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Michael Nutter Is One of Esquire’s Americans of the Year

Philadelphians are so used to being called fat, douchey and every other derogatory term to ever inspire a magazine list, that the Scoop staff is […]

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The Best and Worst of Local Campaign Ads

The average age of a Jeopardy! viewer is 65. Only old people vote. It follows that the commercial breaks on Jeopardy! the last few weeks […]

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Surprise! People Still Don’t Like Michael Vick

Forbes has released the latest Nielsen and E-Poll Market Research results from a poll to determine the ten most disliked NFL players and Philly’s QB-1 […]

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What Are the 10 Things You Can’t Do Without?

A friend recently had a values conversation with his girlfriend—always dangerous in a new relationship. They were talking about things they feel they need for […]

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The Five Most Annoying Jersey Shore Characters

With only a few weeks of summer left, we have precious few opportunities to enjoy the Jersey Shore and all that comes with it—melanoma; rest-stop […]

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The Rocky Musical Playlist

News in the New York Times that Sylvester Stallone, book writer Thomas Meehan (Hairspray, The Producers), and the Tony-award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and […]

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Improve Your Life With a DIY Obituary

As is true for the Queen Mum, Billy Dee Williams, Shirley MacLaine and other aging famous people, my obituary is already in progress. The basic […]

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My 5 Most Hated Mets of All Time

There used to be a time, and not so long ago, when a baseball series against the New York Mets elicited fervent emotion in Phillies […]