Spectrum To Be Razed; No More Circus!

Thanks to Philly.com for inexplicably running a photo of an elephant on the front page along with the Spectrum story. This actually reminded me of the best part of the old arena being knocked down: No more circus! Philadelphia just got better already.

The Delco Times had this, too, late last month.

It’s official: ‘Final year of the Spectrum’ [Inquirer]

Another Circus Coming To South Philly

Ringling Brothers isn’t the only circus that’s taking place at the sports complex in South Philly. On May 12-13, a Christian music rally called Battlecry will be at the Wachovia Spectrum.

Now, a Christian music rally is scary for two reasons: One, of course, is that it’s Christian music. When you’re trying to think of good Christian music and you’re only coming up with a couple Christmas songs and that cool song we sung at my Confirmation, it’s a pretty frightening event. (Although, of course, this is still a million times better than the circus.)

The group is run by a bunch of evangelical Christians who have the usual strange “War on Christians” fears, when in fact the entire country is pretty danged Christian — see: “The War on Christmas” — and they also (2) attack the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. So color me a little skeptical, although the motives behind the event are probably good and chaste.

Oh, and, uhh, it’s called “Battle Cry.” That’s very Christian, I suppose.

Battlecry [via Can't Stop The Bleeding]
Stu Bykofsky | Wouldn’t be a circus without elephants… would it? [DN]