Archive for the ‘philly gossip’ Category

 Dan Gross: Riding to raise AIDS $

The ride is expected to raise at least $100,000 for amFAR. Kiehl’s president, Chris Salgarrdo, and ESPN host Alain de Cadenet lead the cycle ride.

The riders will also visit Southwest Philly’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum of classic race cars before taking

 Kat Dennings recalls the woodlands of Bryn Mawr

and the forest?

that was in Bryn Mawr, that wilderness on Philadelphia’s Main Line.

Dennings, who was born Katherine Litwack and moved with her family to the West Coast a couple of years after her “SATC” debut, explained to me afterward what she’d meant by “forest.”

1312518281 27 Game of Thrones: Is Kanye West the New R. Kelly?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the hot gossip in the streets this week is that Jay-Z and Kanye West are beefing about their upcoming Watch the Throne Tour cost behind closed doors.

1311485095 89 Absolving athletes dirty deeds

Two local items from this week underline this. The first is the continued reclamation of Michael Vick as a marketing tool. The other is the widely professed and anticipated end of the NFL lockout, at which time the Eagles are expected to make a big push for Redskins bad boy Albert Haynesworth.

1310204132 64 Dan Gross: Fore! Its Donald Trump!

The happy couple are now honeymooning in St. Lucia at a resort that is not owned by Trump.

Out and about

1310199806 15 Calendar: July 6 12

Wednesday, July 6

1309567587 14 The Philly Post: Sensitivity Lessons for Twitter and Facebook

If you’re looking for a soapbox to stand on regarding the death of Jackass daredevil Ryan Dunn, I don’t have one to lend you. There’s been enough talk about his driving record and the confirmation on Wednesday that the alcohol in his system was more than double the legal limit when he wrecked his Porsche on Rt. 322 early Monday morning. hopefully, Dunn’s death—and the death of his passenger, Zachary Hartwell—will be a wake-up call for anyone who still takes drinking and driving lightly. and hopefully their friends and family will eventually find some peace through all of this.

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1309240293 23 Sensitivity Lessons for Twitter and Facebook

If you’re looking for a soapbox to stand on regarding the death of Jackass daredevil Ryan Dunn, I don’t have one to lend you. There’s been enough talk about his driving record and the confirmation on Wednesday that the alcohol in his system was more than double the legal limit when he wrecked his Porsche on Rt. 322 early Monday morning. hopefully, Dunn’s death—and the death of his passenger, Zachary Hartwell—will be a wake-up call for anyone who still takes drinking and driving lightly. and hopefully their friends and family will eventually find some peace through all of this.

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1309214050 33 Dan Gross: Filmmaker wants shuttered Montco school for flick

Moyer offered to pay the district, use Souderton High kids as production assistants and have full liability insurance releasing the district from any responsibility should anyone be injured during the shoot. he also said the film contained no profanity, sex or nudity (which might upset some of Barton’s fans).

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1308971033 64 Sideshow: Gaga indeed: Over 1M soldGoop princess goes tweet, tweet

She conquered the blogosphere with her lumpy, gloopy gravy of a site, goop.com. Now Gwyneth Paltrow is threatening to go Godzilla all over Twitter. The Country Strong twanger has joined the 140-character poetry machine and she’s erected a new Facebook account! GP says she’s posted an intro vid that has her declare, “I’m trying to join the 21st century.” Before you could formulate a 140-character comeback, she had attained more than 30,000 tweeters on her followers list, and 49,000 folks “liked” her on Facebook. No wonder she irks me so: She’s so popular.