"This is for the city for Philadelphia. We have one more step, one big step — then we're going to make a grand parade." — Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel.

Thanks, Charlie Manuel! Congratulations to you & your team!

And to all of you so-called experts, better luck next year! Not a single one of your predictions about the Phillies was correct!

The parade honoring the world-champion Phillies on Friday brought SEPTA 21/2 times its usual number of commuters.
On a normal weekday, the system's regional rail lines carry about 130,000 riders, spokesman Richard Maloney said yesterday. Friday's total was 300,000.

From losingest team to longest game, the Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions.

The Philadelphia Phillies have won the World Series of baseball after a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in game five of the best of seven series.

As the Phils close in on a championship, YouTube tributes proliferate.
Is the championship drought almost over? Philadelphia hopes so. And fans are taking over the Internet to show their Phillies pride.

Authorities say gunpoint assaults on Philadelphia police are up dramatically as gun attacks on police across Pennsylvania have risen 82 percent over the past five years.

When Valrita Gordon speaks of her son Terrence "T.J." Davis, she wishes aloud that he was next to her, to help her find the right words to describe him... "Whoever this man was that thought it was his purpose to raise the trigger and take my son's life, should know that he didn't take my son's life because he couldn't," she said. "It was only for God to take. And God had a ministry for my son and that ministry was up until the 18th of October."

The Phillies aren't the only No. 1 team in Philadelphia this fall! AOL City Guide has ranked Terror Behind the Walls as the No. 1 Haunted House in America. Terror Behind the Walls attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually, employs 150 costumed actors, and occupies a 179-year-old abandoned prison. It is considered the largest and most popular Halloween attraction in the nation.

Police have released a drawing of a man they say sexually assaulted a woman in a party bus parked at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia during an Eagles game earlier this month.

A college student who with her boyfriend stole the identities of friends and neighbors was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.

Jocelyn Kirsch, a former Drexel University student, and then-boyfriend Edward Anderton used the money for expensive salon visits, exotic vacations and fancy dinners.

BusinessWeek magazine picked Philadelphia as one of the top twenty cities (#11) to live in to ride out the tough economic times being felt throughout the country.

"The city has plenty of large hospitals and educational institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical School, and Temple University."

"It also has a large number of lawyers."

Well, someone else has to be responsible for the Flyers loss, right?

A professor emeritus of History at Princeton University, James McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, his single-volume treatment of the Civil War that set a benchmark for scholarship in the field. He is the author of nearly 20 additional books, each focused on a particular aspect of the Civil War, including This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg, and Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.

Graphic Novels Panel: Art Spiegelman, Chip Kidd, Jessica Abel, Charles Burns & David Heatley (A) (T)
Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 7:30PM
Central Library
1901 Vine Street, 19103
215-686-5322
Cost: FREE
No tickets required. For Info: 215-567-4341.