Welcome to Odds and Ends, the first edition of a weekly place for us to empty our reporters’ notebooks of things that aren’t quite enough for a story but are nonetheless interesting.
What we’re wondering, and what we’re hearing…
Wonder what U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, who’s been indicted on federal corruption charges, feels about federal prosecutors dropping charges against Temple professor Xi Xiaoing…
Two more people have resigned from WHYY in the wake of departures Chris Satullo and Matt Golas. And immediately after The Inquirer wrote that WHYY’s plans for PlanBurgh.org were in jeopardy, its URL was registered to one Jane Golas, wife of Matt…
One of those WHYY departures was editor Brian Hickey, who’s taking a job with the George Norcross-funded Philly Voice. That site is looking for new office space in Philadelphia, as its current home (ImpactHUB) will close its doors on December 1…
Philadelphia’s City Council was welcomed back to work last Thursday night during a swank evening of boozing and shmoozing at 1925 Lounge on 17th street; Spotted: Council hopefuls Helen Gym, Derek Green and Allan Domb; Blondell Reynolds Brown legislative aide Kellan White; state Rep. Jordan Harris and Republican City Commissioner Al Schmidt…
Washingtonian magazine has started slipping digs against Philadelphia into its coverage of the Papal visit, per columnist Andrew Beaujon…
We’ve been sneaking anti-Philadelphia remarks into our pope coverage, btw http://t.co/e0HFZRlMn7 pic.twitter.com/ROPfdU1Jxs
— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) September 15, 2015
Philly’s own Questlove is on the cover of EBONY Magazine this month…
#Questlove And #BlackThought Cover @Ebony Magazine http://t.co/4ke4sgxf4K pic.twitter.com/AAJ15H911q — Power99Philly (@Power99Philly) September 16, 2015
And Jim Kenney is sad that the Eagles lost.
.@JimFKenney expresses his feelings about yesterday’s @Eagles game #NextMayorPHL pic.twitter.com/gu8HNvhZFP
— Jane Slusser (@janeslusser) September 15, 2015
That’s all for this week!
