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Horror Help Wanted: Opening Casting Call at Valley of Fear in Feasterville, PA
How would you like to be a part of the cast in the deepest, darkest, and most horrifying woods in Bucks County?. Valley of Fear is looking for help for the 2024 season. You're in luck. Organizers of Valley of Fear and the Original Haunted Hayride in Feasterville are looking for cast members for its upcoming 34th year of fear.
Philadelphia animal shelter paying people to foster dogs, cats to help with overcrowding
It's a challenge that usually comes with the summer season: overcrowding at animal shelters.But shelters say this year is even worse."Last year in May and June we took in 60 dogs under seven months old. This year we took in 125," said Sarah Barnett, the executive director of ACCT Philly.The shelter in Hunting Park is now doing something it's never done before: paying people to foster animals."We're asking people to just open their homes for a month," said Barnett." Every adult cat you foster you get $100, or like a cage of kittens, if you do it for a month,...
Philly airport passengers frustrated from delays, cancellations in major Microsoft outage
Frustration, anger and out-of-patience is the feeling of several passengers flying out of Philadelphia on Friday, after an overnight IT outage stormed through systems used by several airlines nationwide. “They just cancelled my flight and rebooked me for a flight tomorrow morning,” said Sheila Ortiz, a passenger who was booked on a Delta flight to […]
Nathan’s Famous hot dogs are 5 cents today
NEW YORK (PIX11) — In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Nathan’s Famous is selling its franks for their original price of $0.05. Customers can only buy two cheap hot dogs each at some locations across New York and New Jersey. The hot dogs will be sold from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. across the […]
Why subs and heros are called ‘hoagies’ in Philadelphia — and the bizarre history behind the name
Who came up with this jawn? In Philadelphia and environs, sandwiches have been given an iconic name reserved mostly for metro-area munchers: the hoagie. Residents of the City of Brotherly Love have coined one of America’s most famed regional cold cut sando synonyms — all apologies to the various homes of the grinder, the hero, the wedge, the torpedo and the sub. But how on Earth did this one come to be? Sink your teeth into this bit of stuffed submarine roll history. Reports from The Philadelphia Inquirer date it back to the World War I era and the city’s Hog Island shipyard —...
Greenwood Racing Buys Two Office Buildings by Parx Casino for $12.5 Million
Bensalem’s Parx Casino is considered the luckiest in The Keystone State according to an analysis of Trip Advisor reviews. Greenwood Racing Inc., the owner of Parx Casino, has expanded its real estate holdings with the acquisition of two office buildings near its Bucks County gaming hub for $12.5 million, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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