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Nobody knows Philly like a Temple Owl 🦉❤️ The Phambassadors program is empowering 10,000+ residents to share the city's story ahead of America's 250th birthday. Read more: bit.ly/3P8PHMj

Always an honor 🐐 The Owls had the privilege of welcoming back Former Single-Digit & Consensus All-American Tyler Matakevich along with former Temple Coach & Super Bowl Champion Nick Rapone to Pro Day & Practice yesterday! Forever one of us! #TempleTUFF

The Madness has descended upon Philadelphia 🏀

Higher grocery prices could soon hit supermarkets as the war with Iran continues. The higher prices are because of a surge in the cost of diesel fuel, which powers many of the vehicles transport products across a vast global supply chain. abcnews.link/QyhHNd7

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

BREAKING NBC: Pete Hegseth says 'family after family' of service members killed urged the admin to "not stop until the job is done." But the father of one of those service members says he never said that. "I can't speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about." nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

The four major food groups in Philly: Pretzels, hoagies, cheesesteaks, and water ice. Philly doesn’t just have food, it has institutions. There’s nowhere else in America that tastes like this city.

It's official: a zoning permit for demo was issued last week for the Hotel Carlyle at 1423-25 Poplar St. in Francisville. A fire three years ago damaged the former boarding house turned hotel, which was famous for being a safe space for Black travelers during segregation.

Painful to have been there in person!

Happy March Madness. It has been 10 years and I am STILL not over this no call push in the back against Iowa that sent the Owls home.

NEVER FORGET: John Fetterman's reply to then President Joe Biden in 2021. The internet NEVER forgets & NEITHER DO WE! Today Senator Fetterman PROVED that he LIED his way into Congress by being the one vote for Markwayne Mullin.🤬

Even Though We Didn’t Get The Job Done. I Will Never Forget This Moment. Special Atmosphere. Happy Tournament Day. We Will Be Back!!! Ps We Should Have Been A Higher Seed. #TempleBasketball

The most conservative politician in Philadelphia. #Sad

This week, Pennsylvania announced another huge win for our state with a $450 million investment to build a new manufacturing facility that will develop cancer-fighting medicine.   Not only will this facility help to revitalize the Bellwether District in Southwest Philadelphia, it will create 225 new jobs and further expand our life sciences industry. nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/can…

How could you not love this city, man

People really have the audacity to say Philadelphia is ugly

Repost if your team has ever been a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament 🔥

@atrupar Hosting Japan and joking about Pearl Harbor. What could possibly go wrong

All the food at the FIFA Fan Fest in Philadelphia will come from right here in the city. With the tagline “Welcoming the World with a Philly Flavor”, Fan Fest will supply the 15,000+ fans each day through a network of 75+ food trucks that will be on location

BREAKING: An oil refinery in Haifa, Israel has reportedly been hit by Iranian missiles. By the time this war is over Energy infrastructure across the globe will be decimated. Trump did this.