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This year, however, the dirt is getting an extra week under the bright lights. This past weekend, Supercross came to the Linc for the first time ever as 40,000 fans watched dirt bike riders race and jump. This Saturday, Monster Jam returns.
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The group at Penn described itself in a news release as a coalition of Penn students, staff, and faculty, along with other Philadelphia community members and students, and called the effort its “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” Students erected about 10 tents on the College Green.
Penn said in a statement Thursday evening that it was “closely monitoring the encampment” and so far had “not received any reports of threatening or violent behavior by the protestors.”
More than 40 college campuses nationwide over the last week had encampments or sit-ins as of Thursday, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is tracking the movement. That was up from 30 on Wednesday.
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If you make the climb to the Art Museum on the right afternoon, Nicholson aka the 'Music Man,' can make you feel as if you really are the champ.
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The page, which has accumulated more than 30,000 followers, has become a mainstay in the community — a place for the thousands of Philadelphians who have lost someone to a shooting to see their loved one be publicly acknowledged.
She’s honored more than 350 people since creating the account — running it entirely on her own and for nothing in return. Gift giving, she said, is her love language.
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He had a run with @WWE, the industry’s top company, and appeared at WrestleMania — pro wrestling’s Super Bowl — in 1999 when it was held in Philadelphia.
He dyed his hair blue, wrestled in short shorts and a crop top with his belly hanging out, and was known more for his dance moves than his piledriver.
Brian Heffron, who was born in South Philly and raised in South Jersey, said his character, which was inspired by the villain from the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine cartoon, is “the Phillie Phanatic of professional wrestling.” And it worked.
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It not only identifies you as a competitor, but it can also reveal something about your personality — or, in the case of professional wrestling, something about your in-ring persona.
But in wrestling, like the kind that will be taking over the city this week as WrestleMania and the entire pro wrestling world descends on Philadelphia, signature moves are even more important.
Why? Because they’re also typically a fighter’s “finishing move,” which is exactly what it sounds like. So getting to break that move out — and, more importantly, pulling it off — means you’re going to win the match more often than not.
We reached out to stop-motion animator Zach Moore and asked him to recreate five finishing moves — with actions figures! — that you’re likely to see in the weekend’s biggest matches.
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His friend, Charlie Corletta, told him they needed to train at a school. Corletta found the Monster Factory (@4monsterfactory), the South Jersey wrestling school that opened in Mount Holly in the 1980s and broke in a cast of future WWE stars.
Martínez was in.
“It was a tiny little place with tiny little rings,” said Martínez, who started training in 2003, when the Monster Factory was still owned by founder Larry Sharpe.
“It was brutal. But to me, it looked amazing. Looking back now, I’m like, ‘Why would I ever sign up?’ I saw a ring and said, ‘Wow. I get to do wrestling.’ I didn’t know any better.”
Now the school has become a pipeline to WrestleMania. Get the full story at the link in @phillyinquirer’s bio.
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Luis Martínez, best known as WWE star Damian Priest, always wanted to be a professional wrestler. He just didn’t know how to become one.
His friend, Charlie Corletta, told him they needed to train at a school. Corletta found the Monster Factory, the South Jersey wrestling school that opened in Mount Holly in the 1980s and broke in a cast of future WWE stars.
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The restoration work is expected to take at least two months, and should be back in Camden by June.
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At least eight people went into the water. Two were rescued but the other six, part of a construction crew that had been filling potholes on the bridge, were missing and presumed dead.
A search for their bodies was underway Wednesday morning, according to Maryland State Police spokesperson Elena Russo.
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Where else could this be but Nihonbashi Philly? It’s not the only place in this sprawling metropolis to serve up cheesesteaks — not surprising for a city 24 times more populous than Philadelphia — but its rendition is executed as faithfully as possible.
That’s because the owners of Nihonbashi Philly, Kosuke and Tomomi Chujo, are on a never-ending quest to create the perfect cheesesteak.
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Two 18-year-olds have been arrested and charged for their alleged roles in a shooting last week that injured eight Northeast High School students as they waited for a bus after school in the Burholme section of the city.
“We will be unapologetic about engaging the support of every law enforcement partner, who we have available to us to help us address this issue,” said Parker.
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