Week In Will Do: The Beginning Of The End

• Have you heard the big news? Philadelphia Weekly is being sold! And it’s going to be sold to… uh, we dunno! Brian Tierney? Village Voice Media? Comcast? You? Who knows! Ha ha!

• The mayor’s race heated up this week, too, as a record number of teachers showed up to announce they didn’t want to vote for any of the five Democratic candidates. In other news, there are a boatload of new ads on the teevee.

• But! It was City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown who made the biggest news of the week, as she introduced a bill requiring Philadelphia tour guides to be licensed. And, surprise, there will be an application fee and a fine levied against unlicensed tour groups.

• In other City Council news, Jim Kenney knows how to blog and Donna Reed Miller owns a horse.

• Another beloved politician, Rick Santorum, will be making documentaries to show us (1) how much “radical Islam” hates us and (2) how we’re all immoral deviant sinners. Ooh!

• And the greatest politician of all time, Milton Street, is no longer entertaining. Sigh.

• Kal Penn, aka Kumar from Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, is the newest professor at the University of Pennsylvania. How do you feel, adjunct professors getting $3k a class?

• Meanwhile, the Evening Bulletin’s Ed Kelley railed against government waste by complaining about a gold coin program that will surely make the government millions.

• The Theater of Living Arts will soon be renamed Fillmore Philadelphia and be part of a tremendous new chain. But, on the plus side, whee, free apples!

• And, most importantly, in Bristol, McDonald’s is opening the first of its new upscale restaurants. Yes. McDonald’s new upscale restaurant. Noodle on that one for a while.