|
|
|
Archive: December, 2009
In a show of class you hope for from the guy you just traded half your farm system and stand-up guy Cliff Lee for, Roy Halladay ran the following full-page ad in the Toronto Star thanking the city and organization for the support they always showed him. I question his font choice and wonder why he didn't spring for color like a certain former Phillie did when he left town (newspapers are hurting, Roy!), but otherwise I respect the move.
 |
What's a good local charity you'd recommend giving money to this holiday season?
Are you a member of Facebook?
Askadelphia runs on Facebook Connect.
Correction: An earlier version of this article declared Valerie Navarro the winner of the Big Bang championship. The winner was actually Ginelle Ophelia. City Paper regrets the error.
 |
| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Glassman with Damon Feldman |
We love Damon Feldman.
Sure, he promotes some wack matches at the airport Ramada and gets guys like Jose Canseco and Danny Bonaduce into the ring. And yes, he convinced respected members of the local boxing scene to be in on his Celebrity Boxing Federation — even its female division's Big Bang event (during Celebrity Boxing 15 on Dec. 18) which was fascinating for its big burly guys watching over gals wearing tiny lingerie panties with the words "Smack That" on âem.
But Feldman has heart and he has guts. And he knows how to fill a room with folk who crave this level of entertainment. And entertaining it is. I've asked people, in the name of God and art, to do some bizarre things. But I've never asked women to wear gi-hugic boxing gloves and slug it out, like Feldman's CBF femme division championship did — all with guest referee Hailey Glassman in her Ed Hardy best ringside.
Anyone keeping tabs (and you can just check Icepack Dec 24 for a primer) she's the woman that Jon Gosselin was keeping company with until recently when he tried to reunite with his wife (now TOTALLY divorced) and Glassman has gone on record (WHAT RECORD) calling Jon a stalker. Then again, depending on what tabs you keep and what gossip rags and blogs you sneak peaks at, Glassman and Gosselin either still live together. Or they don't. Or she's rumored to have a male admirer in Feldman himself who may have been caught in an embrace with Glassman which supposedly got Gosselin mad — maybe mad enough to shoot off guns at his Pennsylvania homestead or call her at the Ramada Inn. See how it works?
This is what Feldman feeds into — the enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in bacon.
Anyway, girls fought with big gloves on. Glassman got into a tussle with one of the boxing gals — the singularly named "Cassie" — hit the mat with the two fighters then called the boxer out for a future match. (Yes... you heard the crowd going "Ooooooh, catfight"). And by the end of it all a girl named Valerie Navarro Ginelle Ophelia wore the big gloves proudly to become the Big Bang female division's first champeeeeeeeeeeeeen. Rocky Marciano might not be smiling up in the heavens, but you gotta start somewhere.
More pics after the jump.
it was hanna that hailey called out not cassie! hailey had a serious attitude problem- most likely envy toward hanna
hey hey let me correct ALOT OF THIS! I fought against Hannah Pearce who was called out by Hailey. I didnt win the belt Ginelle Ophelia who is my best friend and proud owner of the mentioned smack that panties won all 3 rounds taking home title. Thanks
Please give the complete story, my fav though was hailey glassman
shut the fuck upppp
This post has been corrected. City Paper regrets the error.
[...] is now dating a boxing promoter, Damon Feldman, who she met while she was refereeing female boxing matches. (Hereâs a link to photos of the two of them together.) The guy is quoted [...]
 |
|
Photo | Mark Stehle
|
|
WRITE STUFF: Tim Whitaker and Rachel Loeper work with 11-year-old Saudia Islam.
|
This fall, we featured Tim Whitaker's Mighty Writers in our Big Vision CP Choice issue.
Tim Whitaker spent his first few years out of college teaching in North Philly. The experience stuck with him, even as he moved on to Philadelphia Weekly, where he spent more than a decade in the editor's chair. A few years back, that gig stopped being fun and he felt the need to reinvent himself. Helping kids discover the joy of writing was a natural fit.
Thus the idea for Mighty Writers, a nonprofit after-school program modeled after Dave Eggers' 826 Valencia project, was born. Their first location opened July 5 of this year at the 1501 Christian St. storefront that once housed an Obama for President operation. There, executive director Whitaker (who left the Weekly in November 2008), program director Rachel Loeper and lots of volunteers guide 45 enrolled students through hands-on writing workshops. The program's so popular that there's already a 15-student waiting list — a situation Whitaker's looking to ameliorate with a bigger space right quick. He also hopes to open locations in North and West Philly in the next 18 months.
Mighty Writers is looking to make good on that hope and asks that you help them make it so.
In his e-mail asking for support, Whitaker said, "Six months into our program, we're on track to serve 50 Philadelphia kids in our South Philadelphia afterschool program and more than 500 a year in our writing workshops."
But literacy is a crisis in the city and, according to Whitaker, "For Mighty Writers to have a demonstrable impact, we need to grow the program citywide. Your contribution can help us get there in 2010."
"Good writing, in this age of email, texting and Twitter, is a forgotten skill," says Whitaker. "In many Philadelphia schools writing takes a deep backseat to the pressure to improve standardized test scores."
We can't underscore this enough. We know from experience that teaching a kid to write is teaching a kid to think. Can you dig deep and make a donation to an organization devoted to helping kids learn to write?
 |
| Bus Stop in Germany |
Over on Publisher's Clearinghouse, Paul Curci, the publisher of City Paper, talks about the upcoming replacement for the city's bus shelters.
There are many possibilities floating in the wind, including this swing set bus stop in Germany.
So head on over and have a look and let us know your thoughts.
Askadelphia question of the Day:
Was your street plowed? If so, when? If not, how many cars have you had to dig out this weekend?
Askadelphia runs on Facebook Connect.
 |
| photo by Patrick Rapa |
| corner of Passyunk and Fifth |
- ActiVman
- adventures
- Arts
- Ask A Man-About-Town
- Award Tour
- Awards
- Bad Idea Factory
- Beer
- Below the Curve
- Bikes
- Booze
- Brian Hickey
- BRT
- Budget
- Budget Fuss
- Business
- Casinos
- City Council
- City Hall
- CouncilMANIC
- CP Abroad
- CP in the Community
- Criminal Justice System
- Day Tripper
- Death and Taxes
- Delaware River
- Design
- DROP
- Drugs
- Dubious Distinction
- Elections
- End of Days
- Environment
- Fashion
- Film Fest
- Financial Meltdown
- FrackTrack
- Free Library
- Gambling
- Gay Stuff
- Get Lit
- Greenstorming
- guns
- Hall Monitor
- Health
- Health Care
- Hello, Kitty
- Holidays
- Ice Cubes
- Iggles
- Immigration
- In Memoriam
- Labor
- Lawsuits
- Letters
- LGBTQ
- Maps
- Marcellus Shale
- Media
- MMA
- Mummers
- Music
- MUST READ
- Mysterious Mysteries
- Nation
- News
- Non Sequitur
- Opinion
- PA politics 2010
- Parking Wars
- Parks and Recreation
- People Send Us This Stuff
- Philadelphia Police
- Philadelphia Union
- Philaphemera
- Philly From Scratch
- philly madness
- Photos
- Poverty
- PPA
- President Obama
- Print Edition
- Prisons
- Protest
- Readers Write
- Real Estate
- Rock Bottom
- Schools
- Science
- Screwing Philly
- SEPTA
- snow
- So Lush
- Soccer
- Sporting Life
- Sports Complex
- State Politicians
- State Politics
- Street Art
- Strike
- Stuff We Like
- Taxes
- Taxi Drivers
- Tech Fetish
- television
- The Budget Crisis
- The City Paper
- The CLOG
- The Human Condition
- The Mayor
- The Phightin Phils
- The World
- Things that make you go hm
- Tinfoil Hats Off
- Under the Table
- Under the Tables
- Urban Development
- Urban Planning
- urban wildlife
- Video Poker
- We Call Shenanigans
- Weather
- Web Junk
- Weekend Omnibus
- White House
- What We've Found
- Women's Issues
- Flyered Up!
- How 'Bout That Weather?
- it's always sunny in philadelphia
- Stu!
- Shopping
- get out
- 10-track mind
- ArtsFlash
- Bloggity
- Bruce Being Bruce
- Colleges
- Comedy
- Gigantic Surprises
- Hello Canary
- Hello Puppy
- errata
- get lost
- Inside The Fishbowl
- Library Closings
- Local Support
- Movies
- Murder
- Night Moves
- Recycling
- radio
- Scientology
- Sex
- Sixers
- Skeeze Police
- State Politicians Screwing Philly
- That's a cool stencil!
- Theater
- Things We See
- This Week
- This Week in Oates
- University City
- WIN
- What we don't heart
- trailer!
- what we heart
- Feeling Guilty
- Askadelphia.
- Broke in Philly
- Contest
- Dance
- Dear Paper Doll
- Do A Good Thing
- Education
- Film Fest Schism
- G20-20 Vision
- Goodbye
- Gossip
- Great American Heroes
- PATCO
- Pearl Jam Week
- Puppy
- Stars of the Photostream
- sustainability
- Lower Merion Webcam-Gate
- The Cycle
- Equality Forum
- Bureaucrat of the Week
- Animals
- ElectionEar
- Photostream
