UPDATE: Faye and Matthew WON A $90,000 WEDDING!!!!!! Congrats to the lucky couple!!! A huge thank you to everyone who voted for them! Now it’s time to vote for Faye’s wedding dress style, the flowers, invitations, menu, cake, and wedding bands! Read their Philly.com wedding blog for more details: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/weddings/
Philly.com is running an awesome contest: [...]
Have you ever wanted to wear a World Series ring? Now is your chance! On Saturday, August 15th, the American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive at Citizens Bank Park. Every donor will have a chance to wear a World Series ring and to have a picture taken of that very special moment.
1500 donors [...]
PSA: Wawa’s HoagieFest 2009 has been extended! In a tour de force encore, all four Wawa Shortis featured in this year’s hoagie extravaganza will be on sale for a 2-week period starting on July 27th, right after the Meatball Shorti finishes its two weeks as covergirl. So from July 27th through August 9th, feast on [...]
Q: What do the World Series trophy, the Lombardi Trophy and the Stanley Cup have in common?
A: I got all three in a picture today from 2 feet away.
In Pennsylvania’s Capitol today, the three major championship trophies held by Pennsylvania teams were proudly displayed together for all to see, out in the open on a [...]
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BurgerMap Philly [June 25, 2009]
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BurgerMap Philly is here! A pet project of mine for a while, I finally got to work on it in earnest. This color-coded-by-rating map of Philadelphia burgers is going to be an ongoing project of mine, and I submit the Beta version to you, readers. Each Philly burger I’ve eaten (and remember [...]
Listen to this song while you’re reading the post. Trust me, it will bring back great memories:
The Ritz at the Bourse movie theatre in Philadelphia is hosting a Saturday “Midnight Madness” movie series. This past Saturday I went to see the midnight screening of Ghostbusters. I’d seen the movie many times as a kid but never [...]
This week’s badass award goes to an angry mob in Kensington, a rough and economically distressed neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA. The members of this mob, upon hearing that the guy who raped an 11-year-old girl was on the run from the police and possibly in their neighborhood, took to the streets in a rare moment [...]
For those of you who live near a Wawa, rejoice! It’s HoagieFest 2009! For those of you who don’t live near a Wawa, consider moving.
I can’t think of anything that fits the spirit of Life in Awesomeopolis better than HoagieFest. It takes something already awesome, Wawa, and layers on top of it some pure unadulterated [...]