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Crime Doesn't Pay, But Neither Does Gay Porn

As Fleshbot reported earlier this week, big trouble for gay porn stars in Philly! A pair of twins, those adorable scamps, got into a pinch of mischief: arrested for rooftop robberies! Fun fact: "The twins are the focus of a tristate Rooftop Burglary Task force, led by New Jersey investigators, the state where many of the 40-some rooftop burglaries have been committed over the last 18 months," reports the Philadelphia Daily News. After the jump: Keyontyli Goffney's modeling portfolio. (His brother, bad seed Taleon, mainly has a rap sheet a mile long. He once escaped from cops by swimming across a pond, yelling, "You can't catch me!") More »

Philadelphia is full of the homely and the unhappy homos—but does that alone justify the city being called "one big West Village"? Maybe yes? [NYT]

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Is Philadelphia Really The Ugliest?

When a CNN Headline News-Travel and Leisure poll revealed that our own "sixth borough," Philadelphia, was home to the least attractive people in the United States, a guy we know who used to live there sent an email to his fellow Philly expats living in NYC. It read, "You know how I always say in Philadelphia, the two-eyed man is king?" But some people would beg to differ. More »