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| SEPTA NOT Resuming Pass Sales This Week; NJ Troopers Hit By Lightning; DJ Arrested Again Sex Assault |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/21/15 10:26 pm | updated: 07/21/15 10:29 pm |
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| SEPTA announced today that they will not resume selling the special Regional Rail passes for the upcoming visit by Pope Francis for the remainder of this week. The system set up to take orders for the special Papal Passes was overwhelmed with traffic on Monday morning and had to be shut down shortly after it was launched. SEPTA officials are working on fixing the system and consulting with IT experts on the best options to make those tickets available for those planning to travel by... Read More |
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| Philadelphia Music Co-op bringing 35 local acts to 54th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/21/15 7:35 am | updated: 07/21/15 7:35 am |
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| The 54th Annual Philadelphia Folk Fest is only about three weeks away starting Thursday night, August 13th for campers and really kicking into gear Friday-Sunday August 14th -16th with music programmed on multiple stages. A lot of that music will be provided by incredibly talented Philadelphia-area musicians as a part of the Philadelphia Folksong Society's Philadelphia Music Co-op. The Co-op will be represented by 35 acts playing on every stage during the weekend (see the full list below). In... Read More |
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| Music News - Blake Shelton/Miranda Lambert Divorce; Original Zombies to Tour; Wavves Announce Album |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/21/15 6:26 am | updated: 07/21/15 6:26 am |
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| Country superstars and it's most popular couple, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, announced on Monday that they are getting divorced after four years of marriage. They filed for divorce a while ago and made it official yesterday. "This is not the future we envisioned," the former couple said in a statement. "And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy... Read More |
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| SEPTA Suspends Papal Visit Rail Sales; 68 Arrests Kensington Drug Sting; Union Boss Gets 19 Years |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/21/15 1:08 am | updated: 07/21/15 1:08 am |
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| SEPTA has suspended online sales of special passes for Regional Rail service during Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September due to technical problems. SEPTA had load tested the website over the weekend for 1,700 hits per seconds and expected a high volume of traffic when the passes went on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, but the actual traffic today was significantly higher and the servers couldn't keep up. The site was shutdown 90 minutes after it opened. SEPTA plans to sell 175,000... Read More |
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| Music News - Black Eyed Peas Homage Vid; Wilco Plays Star Wars in Chi; Thom Yorke With Portishead |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/20/15 7:23 am | updated: 07/20/15 7:23 am |
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The Black Eyed Peas are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year with members will.i.am, Taboo, and Apl.de.Ap (Fergie did not join until 2002). They've just released a music video for a track called "Yesterday" which features the three original members digging through the racks of a record store pulling out albums that have been influential to the group. The album covers become animated with the guys from BEP appearing in the album art instead of the original artist.
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| Drexel Grad Found Murdered in Apt; Pickpockets in Upper Merion; Police Shoot Suspect in North Philly |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/18/15 7:03 am | updated: 07/18/15 7:03 am |
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| The body of a young woman was found beaten and strangled inside her West Philadelphia apartment on Thursday afternoon. 27-year-old Jasmine Wright was found in her third floor unit on the 200 block of South 50th Street after a property manager checked on her at the request of her father. He is from Brooklyn and hadn't heard from her in a few days. She was pronounced dead at the scene around 2:35 p.m. Investigators believe she was dead for about 24 hours. Wright was a 2015 graduate from... Read More |
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| Music News - Free Surprise Wilco Album; Icona Pop New Single/EP; Alan Jackson on Tonight Show |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/17/15 4:46 am | updated: 07/17/15 4:46 am |
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Wilco has just released a surprise album via it's website wilcoworld.net called Star Wars. The 11-track LP runs about 33 minutes. It is also FREE to download right now. Just enter your e-mail at wilcoworld.net.
Star Wars track list:
1. "EKG"
2. "More…"
3. "Random Name Generator"
4. "The Joke Explained"
5. "You Satellite"Read More |
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| Four Marines Killed, Shooter ID'd; PATCO Papal Visit Passes; Radnor Man Arrested For Child Porn |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/16/15 9:12 pm | updated: 07/16/15 9:12 pm |
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| Four marines were killed in attacks on two separate military facilities a few miles apart in Chattanooga, TN, on Thursday by a lone gunman. The gunman was killed during a shootout at the second facility. He has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized US citizen from Kuwait. It began at 10:45 a.m. at a military recruitment station. The gunman drove up and opened fire, riddling the glass door with 30-50 shots. A marine and police officer were injured. He... Read More |
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| Music News - Arcade Fire The Reflektor Tapes Trailer; Kimbra New Video; Marian Hill in Rolling Stone |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/16/15 6:28 am | updated: 07/16/15 6:28 am |
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| Arcade Fire will release a feature film called The Reflektor Tapes in theaters worldwide on September 24th. The film was directed by 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films winner Kahlil Joseph. According to their press release it "will be a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history." They have released a 45-second trailer for the film as well as an 8-minute segment set to the song “Porno.” The movie has a... Read More |
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| 4 Armed Suspects Caught on Tape; Villanova Expansion Project Approved; DRPA Bridge Discounts |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/15/15 10:41 pm | updated: 07/15/15 10:43 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police have released surveillance video of four armed suspects attempting a home robbery on the 500 block of Burnham Road on Tuesday night. It happened around 10:30 p.m. in West Mount Airy. The 32-year-old resident heard a knock on the door and opened it slightly. He saw another man appear with a gun and quickly shut and locked the door. He witnessed two others appear on the video camera. All four men were armed, three with handguns and one with a shotgun. They attempted to... Read More |
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Alvin Clay
