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2013 Order of Enjoyment
The String Band Division has selected its Order of March, or as I call it, the Order of Enjoyment, for the 2013 SugarHouse Casino Mummers Parade. This is a critically important draw as 2012 Champion Woodland String Band plots strategy of how best to defend its title and SugarHouse Casino PHL17 Viewer’s Choice Winner South Philadelphia String Band has had [...]
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2012 SugarHouse Casino PHL17 Viewer’s Choice Awards
The winners of the 2012 SugarHouse Casino PHL17 Viewer?s Choice Poll have been announced at SugarHouse Casino. Hundreds of Mummers were on hand to cheer the top finishers and enjoy the hospitality of SugarHouse. The place was Mummin’. Woodland String Band, showing the class and polish it’s always had, serenaded the gathered as they awaited [...]
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Emotional Night
Nearly 200 people gathered outside The Epiphany of Our Lord School in South Philadelphia to show how much they love the school and to express hope that a path can be found to keep it open. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia anounced last Friday that it would be closing nearly 50 elementary and high schools after this school year. [...]
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2 Street
For those unfamiliar with the Mummers, Mummers Row is where most of the Mummers Clubs reside. This stretch of Second Street South from Washington Avenue and on to Third Street South to Wolf is the heart and soul of Mummery. It can be the friendliest corridor in the city. Mummers know that at different times [...]
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Faces That Launch Ten Thousand Mummers
With the holidays over, people with jobs are back at work and the kids are back in school. But, the thrill of performing and the mega-thrill of winning in the 2012 SugarHouse Casino Mummers Parade still warms the soul. Congratulations to the winners. There are many reasons to love the Mummers Parade, but take a look at [...]
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Woodland!
Woodland String Band’s theme was “It’s a Jungle Out There.” Well, Woodland rules the jungle. Its members are 1st prize winners of the 2012 SugarHouse Casino Mummers Parade. It?s official confirmation of what they and their fans have known for a long, long time: They?re darn good Mummers. Woodland has existed since 1927 and never won [...]
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Parade is a Go-Go!
The 2012 SugarHouse Casino Mummers Parade is clear to step off Sunday morning, New Year’s Day. There will be a final check of the weather and other conditions at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, but all indicators are green. The Comics, as usual, will begin the parade from Broad and Washington and head to the new [...]
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“Tony Terrific”
You can call him Tony Terrific, though I know he?ll wince at that. 52-year-old Anthony DiLacqua is a great Mummer and Philadelphian. He?s been a Mummer for 23 years, 21 of them playing saxophone with Greater Kensington String Band. Tony is now Director of Security at SugarHouse Casino in Fishtown. Before that, he served in [...]
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Jozef & the Amazing Technicolor Mumcoat
The 2012 SugarHouse Mummers Parade nears and pretty much folks know what their doing. Most of the work is finished. There are exceptions and you know who you are. One of the geniuses of the parade is a family. The Jozefowski family, of Golden Sunrise NYA. Mom, Ellie, Dad, Henrik, daughter, Alexandra, and brother, Jozef. [...]
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Firefighter Ed, the Shooting Star
Tonight on PHl17 a report airs at 10pm on 42-year-old Ed Verbitski. I talked with Ed at the station house on Grays Ferry Avenue where Squad 47 is based and also under I-95 where Ed was rehearsing with the Fancy Brigade, Bill McIntyre’s Shooting Stars. Ed is a Mummer and Philadelphia’s Firefighter of the Year. [...]
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