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An abridged look at 11 branches slated for closing
A CHILL RIPPED through Philadelphia two weeks ago when Mayor Nutter announced budget cuts that included the closing of 11 of the city's 54 libraries to help fill a $1 billion budget hole over the next five years.
Yesterday the Daily News visited each of the 11 branches after school was out to see what would be lost. Here are the stories from our afternoon in the stacks:
Sports
If Utley dealt with sore right hip earlier, Phillies might not have gone all the way
HIP SURGERY. Chase Utley needs hip bleeping surgery.
The news could be worse. The second baseman could have complained in July about the click-click in his right hip, the twinges in his groin and buttocks areas that eventually turned his eye-blink-you-missed-it, Spalding Guide swing into the jab of a cricket batsman defending the wicket against a bowler with a wicked lefthanded offspin. Chase could have opted for a career insurance policy. Getting healthy.
- 24: REDEMPTION. 8 p.m. Sunday, Channel 29. JACK BAUER (Kiefer Sutherland) isn't the only one out to redeem himself in Sunday's two-hour movie "24: Redemption."
- TATTLE HAS mocked many movie ideas over the years because most of them were unnecessary remakes of films we'd already seen. But this could be a good one.
- SURELY, YOU, like Tattle, thought Benji Madden was The One for Paris Hilton. He didn't look like a Greek god. He wasn't insanely wealthy. He didn't live simply to get his face in a magazine. He didn't seem to care about the difference between a designer label and a Budweiser label.
- The Gizmo: Computer-cleanup services from Norton Danger, danger: "Hmmm, that sounds really bad," tsk-tsked one of the repair "Geeks" at my neighborhood Best Buy store. I'd just described my PC's sluggish response time and a very scary "jet engine taking off" sound that the computer's fan was making, every time I touched a key.
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‘Slumdog Millionaire’: Rags-to-riches tale is outstanding
- "Slumdog Millionaire" is certain to emerge as a leading contender for this year's Best Picture Oscar, despite a mostly unknown cast and some subtitled Hindi dialogue (don't worry, it won't slow you down a bit).
- NOVEMBER IS the official start of the cooking season, when the stress of preparing for Thanksgiving fades into the panic of Christmas and Hanukkah and, ultimately, the resignation to (or reservations for) New Year's.
- WITH THE Wall Street bailout, Main Street mess, unprecedented mortgage foreclosures, a fallen stock market, a credit freeze, and record unemployment have many Americans feeling there is nothing much to be thankful for this year.
Blogs
- Attytood: Paulson takes time out from saving the world to bow down to the Reagan myth
- Philly Fan Fare: Add in extra charge for marked-down Sixer tix
- High Cheese: Phillies trade away Golson
- PhillyClout: SugarHouse Inks Deal With Two Community Groups
- CasiNotes: A brief break in the clouds
- Hey Jen: Inauguration Buzz
- Earth to Philly: Ocean power could be limitless
- Eagletarian: Marty Agrees with Critics
- Philly Hoops Insider: La Salle lands in paradise.
- Ronnie Polaneczky: What goes up must come down
- PhillyGossip: The Roots in good shape after Belgium bus crash
- It's Our Money: Council wants to delay library cuts
- Sixerville: This Could Be K.O.'s Last Call
- The Idle Rich: Sapp bodyslams McNabb
- PhillyConfidential: Awarded for taking your calls
- Citizen Hunter: BS-ing with Pat Croce
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