Philadelphia, PA

There’s more on everyone’s new favorite con man, Paul Krueger. The man who allegedly bilked women who met him on Millionairematch.com by telling them he was a Grammy-nominated music producer was arrested yesterday in Atlantic City.

Cops say he stole around $100,000 from 13 women and gambled it away down the shore. The Daily News says not only was he not a millionaire, he was homeless! “He used his only possession, a laptop, to lure women,” the paper writes.

He apparently didn’t even meet most of the women he scammed money from; he just got them to send him money for his new company that would be making CDs and DVDs. Yes, people are stupid, blah blah blah.

I’ve been trying hard to ignore the new Sex and the City movie, but I can’t any longer. Somehow, someway, ever news station has done an intricate report on the Sex and the City movie; last night, CBS 3 premiered its mens guide to SatC. The report included this description of Samantha: “She reminds me of my best friend Cindy.” Oh! I get it now!

To view the “survival guide” click here.

NBC 10 also spent a few minutes early in its 6 p.m. newscast last night to cover a “scandalous sex shop” in West Chester. Apparently, there’s a store with lingerie that has sex toys in the back, and people are not happy because it’s near an ice cream shop, a pizza place and a school.

“I think anytime you take something like that - something involving human sexuality and pervert it -that’s wrong,” the Rev. Edward Deliman told NBC 10. The “sexologist” is unbowed, ready and willing to fight for her shop’s right to sell vibrators.

Skeletor hosts the Karaoke Gong Show at the Troc. Singing are Erin Evans of West Chester (hat) and Amy Sullivan of Conshohocken (horns).

Frankly, this caption is way better without the photo. Also, this story features a quote from Michael Andrews, formerly known as Couzin Ed (he’s on the radio in Vice City!): “When you play Rock Band at home, it’s like just singing in the shower. When you play Rock Band in a bar, it is a real gig.” I’m going to set up Mario Kart at a racetrack.

And, yes, Larry West is quoted in this article. If I didn’t suck at games like Rock Band (and Guitar Hero, and DDR, and Simon, and any of those ‘follow and/or memorize the pattern’ games), who knows - I probably would’ve been quoted, too.

Let’s Play! (Inquirer)

The Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City is giving away $1 million worth of free guest rooms in an effort to boost visitors in Philadelphia. So watch for those girls!

Chris Booker has been fired from his morning show drive-time job at Q102, the Inquirer reports in a rather huge headline on the front page of Philly.com currently. (The website also switched from a photo of Booker himself to one of him and girlfriend Alycia Lane. Great move!)

Q102 is apparently moving “to a show that’s more music-intensive.” Oh, and Diego Ramos will not be fired, though a bunch of other people have been axed as well. I can only imagine that Barsky will soon be the host of a new morning show somewhere.

Booker told Mike Klein he was surprised: “I’ve been fired before for low ratings, but never for being No. 1.” On a side note, I enjoy tremendously the poll question on the front page of Philly.com: “Speak out: Did the station act hastily?” Oh, yes, they should have waited until a full investigation was done of his show. Due process!

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Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help in finding a group of thieves who have been breaking into ATM machines all over the city — using a blowtorch.

Chief inspector William Colarulo of the Special Investigations Unit says the thieves have struck ten times since January. He says they’ve gotten away with hundreds of thousands of dollars already:

“On average these ATM machines can encase anywhere between a couple of thousand dollars to well over a hundred thousand dollars.”

Colarulo says police are sure the burglaries are related because they all followed the same pattern. The machines were all in businesses located next to a vacant lot:

“What these individuals do is they gain access through a wall of the vacant lot, and then once inside they use an acetylene-type torch to burn a hole into the ATM machine.”

Colarulo provided a list of all the similar heists:

01/15/08 - 3100 N. 15th Street
01/25/08 - 401 N. 54th Street
02/10/08 - 5911 Lancaster Avenue
02/10/08 - 304 W. Chelten Avenue
02/14/08 - 3100 N. 15th Street
02/19/08 - 1431 Vernon Road
02/26/08 - 301 W. Coulter Street
02/28/08 - 4837 Woodland Avenue
02/29/08 - 1859 N. Van Pelt Street
05/17/08 - 101 E. Allegheny Avenue

He says that all of the burglaries occurred by breaking through connecting vacant property walls with the exception of 5911 Lancaster Avenue, in which entry was gained by breaking through a rear cinderblock wall.

Police are asking that anyone who observed anything out of the ordinary at these locations on these dates, or who knows anything about the crimes, call 215-686-3362.

Now that’s the kind of clever robbery that shows initiative!

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Action News is having its first online chat with the police department brass since the fallout from the firing of four police officers involved in the kicking and such of shooting suspects. The over-under on the number of questions submitted that boil down to “Why aren’t the police allowed to just beat up suspects?” is roughly 72.

I have no doubt this will be extremely interesting, though not as interesting as a chat with the guys who post on Domelights.

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Once again, a superbly awesome thing on the Internet has been ruined by giant corporations. While Redlasso has more bugs than [insert awesome joke here], it still indexes live television and allows television blogs to go on.

And, now, naturally, Redlasso is being threatened by NBC, Fox, and CBS. Much like when YouTube started removing sports videos when the NFL complained, our fun has been ruined.

At least they waited until after the season finale of Gossip Girl, though.

Philly Edge’s Joe Student passed along a tale of some “breaking news” in Quakertown: A man wrestling with a deer.

Randy Goepfert, 36, had just finished paying for his haircut at Holiday Hair in Quakertown Plaza off Route 309 when he heard a loud thump. He turned around and saw that a buck with four to six inch antlers had rammed against the salon’s glass window. A second later the deer burst through the glass door within feet of two young children, sending employees and the handful of customers shrieking.

As the deer slid and stamped about, knocking shampoo and moose bottles from a display rack, Goepfert, a sturdily-built 5-foot-10, tackled the animal and gripped it in a headlock. He wrestled with the animal for about two minutes, but the deer eventually kicked him hard in the back and broke free.

Hey, instead of just saying, “Won’t someone think of the children,” Goepfert went out there and protected the children. By putting a deer in a headlock. “I didn’t get one during hunting season,” Goepfert said. “And then here’s one today.” Indeed, somebody give that man a medal!

(”OMIGOD!” located on the cute deer picture above in no way endorses omigod.net.)

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“Only NBC 10 was there as (Marvin) Harrison arrived back in Philadelphia Monday after leaving mini camp in Indianapolis.” Wow, what a scoop!

Unfortunately for NBC 10, NFL Player Avoids NBC 10 Questions In Connection With Shooting, as the headline says. That didn’t stop this from being the lead story (apparently) on the 6 o’clock news yesterday:

“Hey, Marvin, do you want to clear anything up,” NBC 10’s John Clark asked.
Clark met Harrison at the Philadelphia International Airport Monday.

After coming out, Harrison got creative. He faked running down a set of stairs in an apparent attempt to confuse the NBC 10 photographer.

He won’t even take questions from John Clark, the happiest man in Philadelphia? Whoa, you know something is wrong, then.

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Since we last reported on Our Town which is coming to the Arden Theatre Company on May 22nd, 2008, we have learned that the Arden has set up a Pay-What-You-Can performance for May 21st, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

Here’s the facts:

Arden Theatre Company presents an unprecedented event!

OUR TOWN in Old City
by Thornton Wilder
directed by Terrence J. Nolen

sponsored by Comcast

What: Pay-What-You-Can performance
When: Wednesday, May 21 at 8pm

Beneficiary: Philadelphia Cares

Where: Arden Theatre Company - 40 N. 2nd Street, Old City Philadelphia

The finale of our 20th Anniversary season is an unprecedented event that
celebrates community. Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Our
Town has become a much beloved classic and is, perhaps, the most
frequently produced play by an American playwright. Interweaving past
and present, Wilder’s stark and simple masterpiece chronicles the daily
life of close knit families and reveals the universal truth that connect
us all.

Act I (Daily Life) will be played at the Arden’s Haas Stage. At
intermission, the audience will walk through the churchyard to Christ
Church where we will stage the wedding of Act II (Marriage and Love).

To further involve our Philadelphia community, we will bring together
different musical groups - one night a boys choir, the next a gospel
choir, the next perhaps a string quartet? Each night we will have
special community guests as part of the production.

This is an event not to be missed!

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The Fox 29 news at 5 o’clock reported on this carnival ride crash on the Northeast Extension.

What is that, some kind of Tilt-a-Whirl knockoff? Tea cups? Either way, at least it wasn’t the Gravitron.

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And here’s something that will make SEPTA even more exciting for all of us!

The police officers employed by Philadelphia’s main transit agency are threatening to strike after working more than two years without a contract. Talks are scheduled Thursday between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and the Fraternal Order of Transit Police, along with a state mediator.

SEPTA does not expect a strike, but “we would provide adequate security for our riders” should it happen, said agency spokesman Richard Maloney. City police and private security guards would be used, SEPTA officials said.

Ehh, we’ll probably be okay. Those SEPTA cops only make around 30 grand a year starting salary - what are they, bloggers? Okay, okay.

Check out the full story over at our friends website.

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Looks like that billboard ought to have said “I will not be racist!” Dan Gross reports 94.1 WYSP’s Kidd Chris has been fired due to a guest’s racist parody song; it was so racist it took the station ’til now to fire him for a broadcast in March. (Gross has a rough transcription of the lyrics.)

The song, a parody of Blondie’s “Call Me,” was titled “Schwoogies” — a Yiddish word meaning “shadows,” used as racist slang for black people about 800 years ago. The artist who did it is Lady Gash, who this blog describes as “THE Premier female song parody artist in all of radio and is one of the best in radio male or female, bar none.” She also apparently did the “Schwoogies” song with Suge Knight.

Also, look, here’s a response to another question on that blog about a song parody contest or something:

My entry is no SCHWOOGIEs since another racist song would not fit the rules of the contest and since there are no darkies on the staff. Who am i going to go after next… the Jews?

Pfft, yeah, no more racist songs, Lady Gash. Anyway, Kidd Chris was supposed to have his birthday party at freaking Whiskey Tango in the Far, Far Northeast, which is pretty much the funniest part of this whole story.

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