[UC] University City Community Cleanup and Party - Saturday, December 6
UNIVERSITY CITY COMMUNITY CLEANUP | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 Neighbors, block captains and community groups, Please organize your block for the upcoming fall University City Community Cleanup! As always, University City District (UCD) will assist University City blocks, block captains and neighbors by providing trash bags, work gloves, and trash litter pick up. For more information or to sign up for the December 6 University City Cleanup, please contact Dexter Bryant at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 215-243-0555 x236. RSVP before December 1 and join us for complimentary pizza and soft drinks following the December 6 cleanup at Mikey's American Grill Sports Bar, 32nd and Chestnut streets, from 2-4pm. Mark your calendars for the 2009 Community Cleanups: April 4, May 2, June 20, October 24, December 5 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
[UC] This was a DP reader's comment on an item in today's DP; it wasn't signed
This was a DP reader's comment on an item in today's DP; it wasn't signed (it wasn't by me -- I always sign everything I write). Plus, I don't like the Campus Inn for a lot of reasons, but I don't think it will -- as the writer says -- drive homeowners out. More, it will have a negative effect on the quality of life of those who contributed to the quality of life in the neighborhood by either not joining the flight to the suburbs in the 60s and 70s, or by coming here when it wasn't at all clear that the neighborhood would evolve in the positive way it has. And by staying or moving here as they did, were at least as much a factor in its positive growth as anything the University did during that critical period. Al Krigman: Base article entitled Historical Commission committee approves hotel at 40th and Pine The comment: More Bad Planning for 40th Street posted 12/03/08 @ 7:25 AM EST You would think that by now the officious empty drums who have been busily destroying 40th Street would hang their heads if not in shame at least with a degree of humility. The murder and critical wounding of two innocent bystanders on 40th Street a few weeks ago might be a clue that 40th Street planning has been nothing short of a disaster. Youth Gangs roam 40th Street on evenings and weekends, thanks to the crime hot spot created by people who, undoubtedly, don't show their faces on 40th during the evenings and weekends. What was supposed to be an arts film house on 40th Walnut became instead a blockbuster movie house which is rarely attended by Penn students and infrequently attended by any other than teens from the area, creating the first ingredient of a crime hot spot. The McDonalds across the street has long been a place where teens from the area gather at night. So too the arcade on 40th and Spruce. Now we shall add an ugly hotel that upscale clients will quickly abandon when they discover that leaving the hotel means walking into drunks stumbling out of Copa Banana and troubled youths looking for, well, trouble. Like the luxury Bridge Cinema, this luxury hotel will quickly devolve from being a game preserve for muggers and drug dealers to being a blight, and along the way it will drive out homeowners not only around the hotel but for blocks around. Homeowners are what make the neighborhood stable and safe. Students make neighborhoods unstable and dangerous. Bizarre combinations of businesses in this already fragile mix will in short order return Penn to the dangerous place it once was, as homeowners (so painstakingly and expensively attracted to the neighborhood by Rodin's careful planning) shall be driven away by Gutman and company's careless lack of planning and sensitivity to a delicate and precariously balanced community. Taxes are very high in Philadelphia, and so too is crime. Schooling choices are poor. It's not easy living with student and crime culture. UCD leaders and influencers had better take heed. They've been making a bundle of mistakes of late, and it's showing in terms of crime and turnover in housing stock. You lose the homeowners, the families, and the neighborhood will revert in a heartbeat to the old days of students and faculty routinely getting raped, mugged, and murdered. **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010)
[UC-Announce] Sat. 12/6: April Verch, Ottawa Valley fiddle (plus a workshop on Sun)
Crossroads Music presents: APRIL VERCH BAND Ottawa Valley fiddle and stepdance Concert Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 pm Calvary Church, 48th St. and Baltimore Ave. in West Philadelphia Fiddle workshop Sunday, December 7, 11 am - 1 pm In the meeting room of Philadelphia Community Acupuncture, on the 3rd floor of the Firehouse building at 50th and Baltimore. (Please email us to register - space is limited). http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 When you see April Verch perform, the first thing that strikes you is the pure energy that infuses her fiddle playing and stepdancing. Then more subtle things draw you in – her confident, winsome singing, the finely detailed elegance of her fiddle phrasing, and the depth of a repertoire that ranges through material from Americana mainstays Buddy and Julie Miller, to simple country songs and rollicking tunes from her native Ottawa Valley, to sparkling original instrumentals. An April Verch concert is equal parts invigorating, surprising, heartbreaking, heartwarming, haunting, charming, thrilling, foot- stomping, faith restoring, and smile inducing — all in all, utterly unforgettable. Pembroke, Ontario, where April has lived most of her life and where her family has lived for generations, lies at the heart of the Ottawa River Valley. Like the more familiar music of the southern Appalachians, this region's distinctive musical and stepdancing traditions combine a strong base in Scottish and Irish traditions with influences from other cultures - in this case, the diverse people who came from Quebec, Scotland, Ireland, Poland and Germany to work in the region’s lumber camps. April began taking stepdancing lessons when she was three and received her first fiddle for her sixth birthday. Her talents in both arenas quickly became evident, as she began winning fiddle and dance contests and performing with her sister and the Pilatzke brothers as a member of the Dueling Dancers, a troupe that earned regional and national attention for its blend of innovative and traditional Ottawa Valley stepdancing. By the time she finished high school, April had recorded two albums and was appearing across Canada at concerts, as an invited guest at fiddle contests, and as a teacher at fiddle camps, always integrating dance and fiddling into a seamless, dynamic whole. After a year at Boston’s Berklee School of Music, April launched her professional career by winning both the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion and the Canadian Open Fiddle Champion titles. As well as being one of the best fiddlers around, she is also a world- class dancer and a singer whose voice has been hailed as “absolutely captivating” by the Toronto Star. She tours tirelessly, winning over audiences not only with sheer technical ability, but also with her charm, humor, and boundless energy on stage. Her seven albums, include the 2001 Rounder Records release, Verchuosity, which earned a JUNO (Canadian Grammy) nomination for best roots/traditional album. In addition to her work as a performing artist, April has taught workshops in the Ottawa Valley fiddle style at festivals around the world. The workshop on Sunday will be of particular interest to those with experience in Scottish, Irish, and American fiddle who are interested in exploring a different but related tradition. SOUND SAMPLES AND MORE INFORMATION http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org TICKET PRICING Standard price: $15 Special Supporters: $20 Discount price: $10 (for students, seniors, or if you can’t afford to come otherwise) Children under 12: $5 Crossroads events are priced on a sliding scale. We are a not-for- profit organization and want as many people as possible to be able to come. If you’re unable to come otherwise, please pay the discount price, and, if you can afford it, please consider paying the supporter price so we can continue this policy. WORKSHOP Tuition is $25 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity-Announce. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
[UC] Does anyone have a large coffeemaker to lend for Divas of Dance? Eliz Nelson's cake is coming!
Hello Everyone, The day of the Divas of Dance event is approaching (Dec. 14), and I am getting the refreshments together. Elizabeth Nelson has graciously agreed to donate several of her prize-winning - if there were a contest, she would surely take 1st place! - pound cakes. I would love to be able to serve coffee with it, and am in need of a large coffeemaker, just for that evening. I will donate coffee from the Boca Java company for it. Please contact me if you are so moved: 215 906-0243. Thank you so much! Patty Bulack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[UC] Arts League Crafts Fair Starts Saturday Dec. 6, 5PM-8PM
The University City Arts League (UCAL), located at 4226 Spruce Street, will begin its annual Holiday Crafts Fair on this coming Saturday evening, December 6, 2008, from 5PM until 8PM. The UCAL Crafts Fair will run for two weeks, until Saturday December 20. Hours are Monday through Friday, 4PM until 9PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 12 noon until 6 PM. Come to the UCAL Crafts Fair and get your unique hand-crafted gifts!
[UC] Apparently, some people haven't heard that Wendell Lewis is leaving
Apparently, some people in the area have not heard that Wendell Lewis is leaving UCD (and the neighborhood) when the current term of his contract expires in June 2009. Do you think: 1. He was worried that the Campus Inn would go through and lower the value of his house even more than the recession, so he thought he'd better get out while the getting was still good. 2. The string pullers at Penn finally realized that all the non-core activities at UCD were not only wastes of money but among the chief reasons why the organization is so unpopular and why the NID attempt failed so badly, so they decided to rebuild the organization in a leaner, meaner form with a real operations guy to manage clean and safe cost-effectively instead of an empire builder to install expensive flags on poles along Baltimore Avenue. 3. Wendell really wants to move back to New York and live in his condo, like he was quoted as saying in The UCReview, so his children could get the benefit of a better private school than he could find in Philadelphia. 4. He can make more money as a consultant (maybe team up with Omar Blaik, who undoubtedly has more work than he can handle teaching other urban universities all about the Penn Model... whether as something to follow or something to avoid is not known). 5. Other. 6. All of the above. Al Krigman reminding you that you read it first (or maybe second), here, on the popu-list **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010)
Re: [UC] This was a DP reader's comment on an item in today's DP; it wasn't signed
teens from the area. Oh, my! At first I agreed with this comment even as I was offended by it. I think Penn's strategy has changed, though. What they seem to be doing now is building as many huge buildings as possible, as quickly as possible, especially around 40th St., and filling them with a lot of people not from the area. It's a blunt instrument and it might work. Heaven knows, all the students need to keep them happy is a CVS below 43rd St., according to the DP. http://tinyurl.com/5tm47k Frank On Dec 3, 2008, at 09:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was a DP reader's comment on an item in today's DP; it wasn't signed (it wasn't by me -- I always sign everything I write). Plus, I don't like the Campus Inn for a lot of reasons, but I don't think it will -- as the writer says -- drive homeowners out. More, it will have a negative effect on the quality of life of those who contributed to the quality of life in the neighborhood by either not joining the flight to the suburbs in the 60s and 70s, or by coming here when it wasn't at all clear that the neighborhood would evolve in the positive way it has. And by staying or moving here as they did, were at least as much a factor in its positive growth as anything the University did during that critical period. Al Krigman: Base article entitled Historical Commission committee approves hotel at 40th and Pine The comment: More Bad Planning for 40th Street posted 12/03/08 @ 7:25 AM EST You would think that by now the officious empty drums who have been busily destroying 40th Street would hang their heads if not in shame at least with a degree of humility. The murder and critical wounding of two innocent bystanders on 40th Street a few weeks ago might be a clue that 40th Street planning has been nothing short of a disaster. Youth Gangs roam 40th Street on evenings and weekends, thanks to the crime hot spot created by people who, undoubtedly, don't show their faces on 40th during the evenings and weekends. What was supposed to be an arts film house on 40th Walnut became instead a blockbuster movie house which is rarely attended by Penn students and infrequently attended by any other than teens from the area, creating the first ingredient of a crime hot spot. The McDonalds across the street has long been a place where teens from the area gather at night. So too the arcade on 40th and Spruce. Now we shall add an ugly hotel that upscale clients will quickly abandon when they discover that leaving the hotel means walking into drunks stumbling out of Copa Banana and troubled youths looking for, well, trouble. Like the luxury Bridge Cinema, this luxury hotel will quickly devolve from being a game preserve for muggers and drug dealers to being a blight, and along the way it will drive out homeowners not only around the hotel but for blocks around. Homeowners are what make the neighborhood stable and safe. Students make neighborhoods unstable and dangerous. Bizarre combinations of businesses in this already fragile mix will in short order return Penn to the dangerous place it once was, as homeowners (so painstakingly and expensively attracted to the neighborhood by Rodin's careful planning) shall be driven away by Gutman and company's careless lack of planning and sensitivity to a delicate and precariously balanced community. Taxes are very high in Philadelphia, and so too is crime. Schooling choices are poor. It's not easy living with student and crime culture. UCD leaders and influencers had better take heed. They've been making a bundle of mistakes of late, and it's showing in terms of crime and turnover in housing stock. You lose the homeowners, the families, and the neighborhood will revert in a heartbeat to the old days of students and faculty routinely getting raped, mugged, and murdered. Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now.
[UC] Does anyone have an exterminator recommendation?
I can only venture to guess that my problem stems from the construction going on down the street at 47th and Pine, but I seem to have acquired a rat problem, which is entirely disgusting. Can anyone recommend an exterminator to help with the problem? _ Suspicious message? There’s an alert for that. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad2_122008
Re: [UC] Does anyone have an exterminator recommendation? - RATS?
If you have rats (rather than mice) from nearby construction, contact the City's Vector Control unit. It is a public health issue. John Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) may be of some help. Ciao, Craig In a message dated 12/3/2008 6:52:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: guess that my problem stems from the construction going on down the street at 47th and Pine, but I seem to have acquired a rat problem **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010)
[UC] Re: [Ucneighbors] shipping
Also, a lot depends on whether you plan to ship the high chair with or without toddler. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, missthin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Muriel USPS will not take packages over a certain size - i.e., if it won't fit in the plexiglass box at 40th St or through the window at 30th, it's too big. Been there, tried with a 40x40x3 wide box. No go. You could try Campus Copy, they use both UPS and Fedex Ground - Fedex Ground being a little cheaper. I don't know what they charge for packing, but I have seen lots of packing materials and they do advertise that they will package and ship for you. Of course, there's also a small surcharge on whichever delivery service you use. You could ask at Campus if THEY can send something USPS parcel post, don't know if it'd be possible there or if it truly is an official USPS rule re: package size, but I know they can't insure, register or delivery confirmation. Wendy On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Mario Giorno [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Muriel, If the the high chair isn't disassembled then your best bet is probably USPS Parcel Post. If you can figure out the rough dimensions of a box in which the chair would be packed (ex. 18in x 24in x 48in.) you can use the USPS postage calculator at http://postcalc.usps.gov/. Mario Giorno On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeking suggestions for having a high chair packed and shipped. Thanks, Muriel -- Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.comhttp://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0002 . ___ ucneighbors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors ___ ucneighbors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors ___ ucneighbors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors -- Ross Bender http://rossbender.org
Re: [UC] Re: [Ucneighbors] shipping - uncommon thought
Nice to see you are again, probably accidentally, posting uncommon thought to the Commoners' List. Since the departure of you and Kyle in particular, one of the most exciting posts on this list was SpecialK's suggestion the list had become moribund, my agreeing with Al, and Glenn immediately asserting the list's vibrancy was assured by his continual thoughtful posts. Enjoy the Holiday's, Christmas - if you are not doing the Solstice on the 23rd. Ciao, Craig In a message dated 12/3/2008 7:12:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, a lot depends on whether you plan to ship the high chair with or without toddler. **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010)
[UC] City Council resolving to keep all libraries open (news from Friends of the Free Library)
I've been a bit perplexed by the lack of library news on the list after the initial flush of enthusiasm. Here are pair of upcoming events that you may wish to support. CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION: Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. City Hall (NE Corner entrance) - Council Chambers - Fourth Floor. City Council will introduce a resolution to keep all facilities open through the fiscal year while they look for solutions to the current budgetary challenges. We urge you to attend - bring signs - support your libraries! See our latest letter to City Council. RALLY to Save the Libraries! with State Reps. Mark Cohen, Babette Josephs, James Roebuck, Council Bill Green, and more! Saturday, December 6, 12:00 p.m. at the Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, followed by a March to City Hall! Contact: Amy Dougherty Download a flyer: full page or four-on-a-page. Best, Mar
