SEPTA announced their updated plans to sell the Special Passes to ride Regional Rail during the weekend of the Papal Visit on September 26th and 27th. Last week, SEPTA attempted to put the passes directly on sale. High demand for the tickets caused the site to crash when it was launched and SEPTA suspended sales. SEPTA has now created a lottery system to distribute the passes. The lottery will be...

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The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons. The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately. It was approved by the BSA's National Executive Board by a vote of 45-12.

Drexel University...

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A firefighter was injured early Tuesday morning while fighting a blaze that broke out in in a home on the 5900 block of Kingsessing Avenue around 3:30am Tuesday. Everyone was able to get out of the burning home before they arrived, but one firefighter sustained a minor injury. The cause may be suspicious in nature, as officials say the house that caught on fire has been a problem house for...

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Florence + The Machine have released new visuals for two songs off their recent How Big How Blue How Beautiful album. "Queen of Peace/Long & Lost" is a 10-minute short film that fits in a greater series of short films by Florence Welch. Each have been directed by Vincent Haycock. This is Chapter 4 & 5. The others include "What Kind of Man," "St. Jude," and "Ship to Wreck" referred...

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Collaborative workspace Venturef0rth, located in the Loft District in the Callowhill neighborhood, along with innovative music community incubator RECPhilly (and Venturef0rth tenant) are holding a unique social networking experience this Thursday called Venture 0n. The event will feature live musical performances from a number of top local artists, great food from area eateries, and a panel...

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July 25/26 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment

1) "Tio Live is to Fly" by Townes Van Zandt
2) "Night Bird Flying" by Jimi Hendrix
--story-- Diners
3) "Birds" by Neil Young
4) "Skeletons" by Rickie Lee Jones
--story-- Monks and a woman
5) "Catch the Wind" by Donovan
6) "Seagull" by Bad Company
--story-- Monks...

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called a press conference today to refute several security maps that have been circulating on the internet supposedly showing vehicle free and fenced zones during the Papal visit in September. He said, “No official security perimeter has been announced, or fully and finally determined...Speculative reporting on this matter performs no legitimate...

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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobbi Kristina has died at the age of 22. She passed away at the hospice facility where she has been since June 24 outside Atlanta. Bobbi Kristina was found in her bathtub on January 31, where she was believed to have been underwater anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes. Police say there were bruises on Bobbi Kristina's face when she was discovered by her...

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Hundreds of residents were forced from their homes overnight after fire ripped through a 14-story apartment building in Pennsauken, New Jersey. The flames broke out just after 12 a.m. Monday on the third floor inside the Cooper River Plaza Apartments in the 5100 block of North Park Drive. No residents were injured. But one firefighter was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
The cause of...

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It's been 50 years since Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, and his 1964 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster travelled to Rhode Island over the weekend to be part of the festivities. On July 25th, 1965 Bob Dylan plugged in the electric guitar, backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and ripped into "Maggie's Farm," "Like A Rolling Stone," "Phantom Engineer." Folk purists were...

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