Anthony Bourdain’s Philadelphia Project: What’s Our Story?

Regardless of Philadelphia’s ability to keep writing this successful culinary narrative, there is still a story here now, and it’s worth discovering, so here’s hoping Mr. Bourdain does and is able to tell it right.

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WMMR’s Preston and Steve’s Camp Out for Hunger: A Good Time for a Great Cause!

And nowhere is the Preston and Steve show’s passion for entertainment and all things Philadelphia on better display than the show’s annual Campout for Hunger.

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Bradley Cooper and Philadelphia: Beautifully Perfect Together

After a decade of being called the fattest city, intermingled with the unhealthiest city, and being censured with the most ugly award, we have verifiable proof that our collective gene pool is vastly underestimated with the winner of People’s List of Sexiest Males, Bradley Cooper.

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Oprah Closes her Books

The one thing I will miss is her book club. The Oprah seal of approval netted me the right way, and I can honestly say that when I found a book that had it, I would not turn it away.

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Birthday Blips: Billie Holiday

Today (4/7/11) marks the day the Billie Holiday would have celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday.

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Birthday Blip: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's pick-work is up there with the best, exploring new sounds with the instrument that led to the inception and development of rock and roll.

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Social Network: The Real Best Picture of 2011

This unknown story, superbly and subtly entwined into the film, reinforcing one of the movie’s many essential themes, in addition to many other rewarding aspects, makes The Social Network such a wonderfully crafted and written film and its loss of the Best Picture Oscar all the more absurd.

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The ABCs of Google's New Instant Search

If there was any doubt before, I can now say with certainty that the bright promising days of the internet serving primarily as a tool for the high pursuit of knowlege are long gone. But at least the technology is getting cooler.

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Silence in the Museum

My wife and I decided on a gorgeous Sunday morning of a Thanksgiving weekend to forego the obvious temptation of staying in bed. Why not go to the museum? we thought. Why not indeed. Even the dog concurred. He saw us off and went about opening the haberdashery we believe he runs somewhere around town.

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"Hey, yo" Should Have Been "C'mon now!"

Now, while his backstory was never really fleshed out, you have to assume Rocky Balboa was born, raised and lived his entire life in the heart of Philly. Any person who was born and raised in a city that has a regional dialect like Boston, NY, Dallas, Chicago CANNOT avoid acquiring some sort of accent. So how is it that the character who has come to be identified so strongly with Philadelphia has an accent like he just stepped off the set of "The Lords of Flatbush"?

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