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Award Tour
Pardon the interruption while we toot our own horns here for a second.
The results of the 2010 Keystone Press Awards are in and the good people at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association deemed City Paper writers worthy of five first place awards and one distinguished writing award. To the honorees:
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Division VI, Non-daily papers, circulation 10,000 and higher |
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| First Place, Investigative Reporting | Isaiah Thompson, Steamrolled: The soccer stadium barrels its way into Chester. |
| First Place, Special Projects | CP Staff & Brian Howard (editor): The Big Vision Issue, CP Choice 2009 |
| First Place, Sports Story | E. James Beale, The Prospect: What does it take to make it in the NBA? And does Dionte Christmas have it? |
| First Place, Personality Profile | Carolyn Huckabay and Neal Santos, She's on a Mission: T. Desiree Hines will change the way you think about trans Philadelphia. |
| First Place, Feature Beat Reporting | Trey Popp, Food Beat, for features on Square 1682, Chifa, Root, The Kibitz Room, Fond and DIY Ginger Ale |
City Paper Senior Writer Isaiah Thompson was awarded second place for Distinguished Writing among writers at all weekly papers in the state for his entry that consisted of Coop D'Etat, Believe it or Not and Meet Your New Neighbor.
Congratulations!! Well deserved
Hell yes! Congrats, you guys are awesome!
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| The staff at 2B Groomed |
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The spread includes a piece on straight razors, a rogues gallery of famous mustaches (Billy Dee, Sam Elliott, Daniel Plainview), the history of the dopp kit, a defense of the man-spa and a piece on the barbershop revival: "In these economically addled times ⦠with men looking for ways to cut back, hot towels, straight-razor shaves and classic cuts (with a complimentary Guinness or scotch) are increasingly in demand."
The barbershop piece runs with a list of Playboy's top-10 barbershops in America, and checking in at No. 5 is Philly's own 2B Groomed Studios (270 S. 11th Street, 215-925-3505, 2bgroomed.com, appointments encouraged), run by the super-dapper Jahmal Rhaney (above), who stopped by this morning to drop off a copy of his tonsorial star turn.
A couple years back, Trey Popp chronicled his straight-edge conversion in CP's pages:
The straight-edge specialists I used to frequent in India didn't sport twirling poles either, but considering what they charged for their services, such adornment was a cost better avoided. The going price for a smooth face ten years ago ranged from two American dimes to a quarter. After getting past high-strung nerves and an overdeveloped fainting reflex my first time in the chair, I was hooked. Why hunt for imported disposable cartridges when a man with 30 or 40 years of experience would shave me for a song? I threw away my lathering gel.
Given the scraggly state of my now-traditional winter beard, I may follow suit and pop down to 2B Groomed for one of their spruce ups and beard trims. Stay tuned.
Just wanted to say ... forgive me, mine employer ... thanks to Philebrity.
Last night's Philebrity Awards Show at the Trocadero & Xmas Pageant was awesome â everything about it, but especially getting a chance to meet some of the faces behind the names. (Free Library Director Siobhan Reardon shook. my. hand.)
In one of those "The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice" moments, host Joey Sweeney even uttered the words "City Paper," before releasing a dove into the night sky.
But if you made it out, you already know how awesome it was, and if you didn't, you probably don't care to hear it now. So I'll leave it at that.
But yes, thanks, Philebrity. Good on ya.
We'll let it slide, this time. Don't do it again. Thanks, Management.
When's the Choice party?
congrats again isaiah!
Congratulation, Isaiah! Oh..... and you're fired. Joey? Interested in a reporting gig?
You mean Philebrity is capable of more than publishing pedantic posts that wreak of superficial snark and lack any kind of intelligent criticism of the city other than "This place sucks, look how stupid this place is, look how stupid everyone but us and the folks we hang out with are?" Well, wonders never cease.
Yay, congrats! Well-deserved.
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Come see Isaiah accept his award tonight at the Trocadero, 10th and Arch, 8 p.m.
I can hear him working on his speech right now, and it's a doozie.
Isaiah thanks you all for your votes.
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Isaiah Thompson, who is just one man, is engaged in a tight race with Team Illadelph in the Philebrity Award for General Excellence in Writing for a City Publication.
Let's take a look at what Thompson wrote for today's paper:
First, in the Naked City lead, Isaiah takes a look at the federal stimulus funds being allocated for homeless programs and how the efforts are just not doing much to address the issue of chronic homelessness.
When the economy cratered in November 2008, Mayor Michael Nutter forced city departments to make deep cuts — and the Office of Supportive Housing (OSH), which administers the city's homeless programs, was no exception. Loath to eliminate beds, OSH directed its shelters to cut even more resident services — including what was left of case management —instead.
But with the stimulus, things were looking up. The city was awarded about $21 million in stimulus money over three years — a little less than $7 million a year. That's hardly chump change. OSH's total annual budget is $100 million, about $38 million of which comes from the city. In October, the money began flowing in.
It was with some surprise, then, that most shelter operators learned they wouldn't be getting much of that assistance — and neither would many, if not most, of the shelters' residents.
It's a thoughtful look at a problem that doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.
And then, in his wildly popular Man Overboard! column, "167 Seconds," Isaiah takes on the bike/car battle (another problem that also doesn't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon
I'm getting all lawful lately. Not that I was some terror of the streets before, but suddenly I find myself sitting at empty intersections, on my bicycle, waiting for every single light. Like I'm a car. It hurts, but not much — waiting at every light costs me 167 seconds of my 20-minute commute to work. And you can have those seconds, Philadelphia drivers. But only if you stop acting crazy.
And "crazy" is the word for it. Following two recent deaths of pedestrians at the hands of bicyclists, long-simmering anti-bike sentiments exploded, taking shape in the form of aggressive laws proposed by Councilmen Jim Kenney and Frank DiCicco, which include such reasonable measures as a fine for wearing headphones that's nearly three times that of blowing a red — in a car! If only there were such a thing as double-italics!
The councilmen say they're just starting a "conversation." Good idea, but don't start by spitting. The past two weeks have seen much foamy-mouthed anti-bike whining, embodied by the Daily News' Stu Bykofsky, who — apparently because his own commute utilizes Pine and Spruce streets, which now host the only two east-west bike lanes in Center City — seems hell-bent on getting revenge for cars having to share the road with bikes. If anyone deserves revenge, it ain't drivers. In the last five years, 174 people, including 18 cyclists, have been killed by cars in Philly, according to the Bicycle Coalition. The number of pedestrians killed by bikes over the same period? Three.
Thompson's reporting the shit out of the city. He's taken on bikes, homelessness, casinos, soccer stadiums, union heads, library funding and scrap collectors, for starters. We think you should give him your vote.
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Our very own Man Overboard! Isaiah Thompson has received a nom for a Philebrity award in the category of General Excellence in Writing for a City Publication.
Who's the competition? It's stiff!
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So get on over to Philebs and vote early and often for Isaiah. Polls close on Wed., Dec. 9, for the award ceremony on Dec. 10 at the Trocadero featuring BC Camplight, Secret Pants and Blood Feathers, with the pay-what-you-can admission benefiting the Free Library Foundation.
The winners of the Internet Baseball Awards — essentially the MVP, Cy Young, Rookie and Manger of the Year awards as chosen by stathead fans — were announced of the last two days.
More than 1,200 ballots were cast in this year's installment. The hometown nine fared well in the National League though, much like this year's post-season, nobody took home any hardware:
MVP:
Chase Utley and Ryan Howard finished 4th and 10th respectively in the MVP voting.
Jayson Werth (20), Raul Ibanez (24) and Cliff Lee (28) also made showings
Cy Young:
Cliff Lee finished 9th in the balloting, which is not bad considering he put in less than a half season of work in the red pinstripes. J.A. Happ placed 16th with Cole Hamels clocking in at 19th.
Rookie of the Year:
This was a nailbiter, as J.A. Happ finished 2nd to the Braves' Tommy Hanson in a photo finish. Happ racked up 5,473 points to Hanson's 5,487. To my knowledge, no other Phils rookies received votes.
Manager of the Year:
Charlie Manuel finished 4th, behind Jim Tracy (whose miraculous reversal of the Rockies season was deserving of praise even if his handling of the NLDS was not), Joe Torre (who's kind of coasting on reputation at this point) and Tony LaRussa (see Joe Torre).
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| Photo | J. J. Tiziou |
| The Champ |
For her "Parallel You" performance with Headlong's David Brick, Nichole Canuso of Nichole Canuso Dance Company took home the $10,000 grand prize — beating out Jenn Rose of Loose Screws Contemporary Tap Company and Braham Logan Crane — as the winner of the controversial A.W.A.R.D. Show at this year's Live Arts Festival. Big ups to Canuso, dancer, choreographer and CP fashion plate.
Congratulations Nicole!
Congratulations Nichole!
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