1200 block of North 4th, 11:05 AM by JEFF FUSCO INQUIRER: As police search for whoever killed Sabina Rose O’Donnell near her apartment at Fourth Street and Girard Avenue late Tuesday, those friends have stepped forward from all corners of Northern Liberties. They have joined her relatives and Northern Liberties business owners to post a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. Anyone with information can leave tips anonymously at 215-546-8477. In addition to PYT, the Silk City Diner Bar & Lounge on Spring Garden Street is collecting donations for the Sabina Rose O’Donnell […]

[Illustration by ALEX FINE] PHREQUENCY: In fact, the brief jaunt will be kicked off at the Tower on September 7th with openers Fuck Buttons. The show is pretty much what it sounds like, the bands classic Doolittle in its entirety along with the related B-sides and then whatever the hell they want to play. All shows on the tour have been available on CD immediately after the set is over, so that’s an extra keepsake. Tickets go on sale June 14th. MORE Q&A: Burying The Hatchet With Black Francis

BY MAVIS LINNEMANN Over Memorial Day weekend, I had the opportunity to cook with some of my favorite kitchen bitches—my sister Paige and my friends Emily and Lauren. With so many sous chefs, I knew I could make a really stellar meal for all the family and friends joining us for the holiday. In my head, there was only thing we could make that would celebrate both the warm weather and the joy of being with family: homemade pasta. Why in the world would you make pasta when you can buy a box for 99 cents? Because it’s a fun […]

TODAY I FOUND OUT: For those who’ve never experienced this phenomenon, eye floaters are little oddly shaped objects that appear in your vision, often when one looks at bright light such as a blue sky.  Their shapes vary greatly, but will often appear as spots, cobwebs, or randomly shaped stringy objects.  These are not optical illusions, but rather something your eyes are actually perceiving.  There are a few different things that can cause this, but in most cases these eye floaters are caused by pieces of the gel-like vitreous breaking off from the back portion of your eye and then […]

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[Illustration by ALEX FINE] FRESH AIR John Waters describes himself as a “cult filmmaker whose core audience consists of minorities who can’t even fit in with their own minorities.” In a new memoir, Role Models, the director and writer of such films as Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Cry-Baby profiles the many people — from singer Johnny Mathis to a stripper named Zorro — who have inspired him over the years, both in his personal life and in his transgressive cinematic career. Waters says he has only written about people he has looked up to — even if they’ve […]

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INQUIRER: The Mariner Project, as Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. has dubbed it, calls for construction of a refrigerated terminal to store supercooled ethane at one of Sunoco’s existing facilities. Philadelphia, Marcus Hook, and Westville, Gloucester County, are possibilities. The deal between Sunoco Logistics and MarkWest Energy Partners L.P. addresses one of the issues nagging gas operators as production in the Marcellus Shale rapidly escalates: how to transport the growing volume of natural gas and its byproducts to market. Marcellus wells in northern Pennsylvania produce “dry gas,” mostly methane, that can be sold by pipeline directly to electrical generators or homeowners, […]

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