July 20-26, 2006
Naked City
Running Numbers13 Number of daily newspapers — six morning and seven evening — published in Philadelphia in 1892. According to The Pen and Pencil Club, "All those reporters and editors needed a place to drink, to socialize, to bitch and to unwind," thus resulting in the formation of the oldest press club in the country. The P&P will host Philadelphia Conference's Photo Night Out July 20 at 8 p.m., featuring Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff photographer John Beale.
75 Number of cents per ounce of chewing tobacco that consumers would have to pay under the new weight-based tax of moist snuff proposed in the New Jersey budget. Back when N.J. legislators weren't a bunch of pinko Commies, moist snuff was taxed based on 30 percent of the wholesale price. The change is projected to raise $5 million.
20 Maximum weight, in pounds, of grill-type propane cylinders that can be disposed of during the household hazardous waste drop-off event July 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Streets Department's training center on State Road at Ashburner Street. Visit www.phila.gov/streets/hazardous_waste.html for a list of acceptable items. A hazardous waste disposal in Fishtown? This sounds like a contest. Somebody make T-shirts.
$200 Unbecomingly low original sale price of Thomas Eakins' famous work, The Gross Clinic, a painting — now housed at Thomas Jefferson University's Medical College — depicting a surgical demonstration that was criticized at the time for the "unsightly" realism of the physician's blood-soaked hands. Eakins was born in Philadelphia July 25, 1844.
$200 Cost of a Philadelphia Freedoms ticket package that includes one reserved series seat for all home matches, two invitations to the "Meet the Team" reception and one invitation to Women's Networking Night with guest speaker Billie Jean King, July 20 at Cabrini College. For individual tickets call 866-WTT-TIXS. Haha, networking. Get it? Net-working. Like working the net. Because it's tennis. ... I'm not invited, am I? If only there were some kind of knowing-the-former-value-of-a-Thomas Eakins-painting-related barter system. Looks like I'll just have to stay home and relax with some cheap Pa.-bought moist snuff.