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Philly leisure hotel bookings looking to break record
The summer is lodging good numbers for Philadelphia’s tourism industry. From January through June, hotels sold 416,000 ...
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ListenA pizzeria that Pope Francis would appreciate finds itself in the papal weekend-security zone
Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in Center City has garnered a lot of attention for the pay-it-forward spirit of customers who use extra dollar b ...
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Road closings planned during papal visit leave suburban businesses in quandary
About 40 percent of those filtering into Philadelphia for Pope Francis’ visit will be c ...
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ListenGreat reception awaits pope in Philly; cell phone companies work to provide crowd with same
The pope’s September visit to Philadelphia is pushing major cell phone providers to install dozens of extra antennas around the cit ...
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Business help for papal visit is on the way
The late-September visit of Pope Francis has a lot of Philadelphia businesses worried about how — and if — they’ll be a ...
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ListenNJ officials announce Papal visit transportation plans [maps]
When Pope Francis comes to town, the Garden State will look like anything but the Garden of Eden. More than 100,000 private vehicl ...
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More details of papal visit restrictions announced
Philadelphia officials have filled in some more blanks about the papal visit. A week ago, the city released its plan for a three-s ...
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ListenEx-WMF event consultant makes the case for chilling out about the papal visit
With so much incomplete information out there about the papal visit security plans, lots of people and groups have been hitting the panic ...
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NBC10 nixes Philly mayoral debate after Kenney campaign objects to reaction-shot camera angle
Travel with NinetyNine back to the year 1960. That September, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon faced off in the nation’s fi ...
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Passing as a transsexual black man, and the revolutionary courage to continue
I was finally "passing" as a black man. I also came to realize that the duties of the police to "protect and serve" did not necessarily apply to someone like me.
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Making sure Philly’s homeless, poor aren’t ‘swept away’ during papal weekend
On summer nights, more than 100 people sleep on benches and under trees that line the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. But when Pope Fra ...
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This Atlantic City showgirl has always brought his full humanity to work
Robert Hitchen, better known in Philly and South Jersey as Sandy Beach, got his start as a drag performer — he likes the term R ...
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Challenge to independent mayoral candidate’s nominating petitions dropped
Remember Tuesday’s story about a petition challenge being fil ...
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They’re right at the edge of the city, but it feels like a million miles away. For the residents of the marina, life is a cross ...
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‘Ghost vs. Pope’ plans dissolve in complications of Center City ‘traffic box’
Security measures related to Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia on the weekend of Sept. 26 and 27 are forcing many of the cityR ...
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