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Grammy 2025: Taylor Swift, Post Malone Among Nominees With Pennsylvania Connections
Several artists with ties to Pennsylvania are among the nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards, announced today, showcasing the state's powerful influence on the music industry. From hometown pop icons like Taylor Swift to collaborations that span genres, Pennsylvania's imprint is undeniable in this year's top categories. The 2025 Grammy nominations, announced Friday, Nov. 8, feature several artists with connections to Pennsylvania. Notably: Taylor Swift, 34: Born in Reading and raised in Wyomissing, Swift has secured multiple nominations, including Album of the Year for "The Tortured Poets D…
Politics
Philly Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over Voter Lottery Based Solely On Speculation: PA Judge
The Philadelphia district attorney's lawsuit against Elon Musk over his $1 million voter lottery was based on mere speculation, a Pennsylvania judge said in an opinion filed Tuesday, Nov. 12. While District Attorney Larry Krasner claimed that Musk and his America PAC scammed people, he "failed to provide any evidence of misuse beyond mere speculation," Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta wrote in the opinion, according to a CBS News report. Foglietta denied Krasner's request to block the $1 million voter lottery before Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, but did not provide a r…
Lifestyle
Family Finds Taylor Swift's Birth Announcement In PA Grandma's Desk (
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A Pennsylvania granddaughter has found baby Taylor Swift photos and a newspaper clipping of the popstar's birth announcement sent to her grandma from Swift's parents — before she sells it to a super fan she's offering Swift an opportunity to reclaim this adorable memento. Meg DiPiano posted in a Taylor Swift Facebook group on Monday, Oct. 28: "My grandmother worked for Taylor Swifts father in Wyomissing PA, when my grandmother passed we found Taylor’s birth announcement in her desk in the original envelope. Is anyone interested in this?" The Daily Voice team wanted to know more s…
Lifestyle
Taylor Swift's Jersey Shore Summers, Family Photos Featured In New Museum Exhibit
As pop star Taylor Swift spends the summer performing across Europe, a Cape May County museum is showcasing her time vacationing on the Jersey Shore as a girl. The Stone Harbor Museum opened its 2024 Taylor Swift collection, according to a news release on Thursday, June 13. The Berks County, Pennsylvania, native spent summers at her family's vacation home in the borough from 1992 to 2004. Swift sang at the Coffee Talk cafe on 97th Avenue as a teen before her international rise to fame. "We hope that the 2024 Taylor Swift collection at the Stone Harbor Museum will now bring new and old…
Lifestyle
Taylor Swift's Relatives Include This Iconic Poet, Ancestry Reveals
From one “tortured poet” to another: the uber-famous Taylor Swift is related to another famous wordsmith, who happens to be from Massachusetts. Taylor Swift, the internationally-loved pop star who recently announced her upcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department,” was discovered to be related to iconic poet Emily Dickinson, NBC’s TODAY Show announced on Monday, March 4. According to Ancestry, who revealed the star-studded lineage to TODAY, Swift and Dickinson are both descendants of a 17th-century English immigrant, who was an early settler in Connecticut, in the Hartford County t…
Politics
House Votes For 'Taylor Swift Era' In Pennsylvania In 2023
It's official — 2023 is the era of Taylor Swift. That's according to a recently passed resolution from the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives, which lauds the Berks County native as having "transcended the role of pop star." The resolution cleared the House by three votes on Wednesday, Dec. 13, the singer's 34th birthday. The resolution "celebrat(es) Ms. Swift's recent selection as TIME Magazine's 2023 Person of the Year" and recognizes "her positive impact on Pennsylvania's economy, voter registration numbers, consumer protections, and pro-labor practic…
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NJ Fan of Country Star Morgan Wallen Loses $1,100 To Facebook Ticket Scam
A fan from Bergen County who'd apparently landed a trio of tickets on Facebook for country star Morgan Wallen’s sold-out concert tour got left with a case of the blues. Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said the victim Venmo’d $1,104 to three different individuals after making what appeared to be a deal with a Ridgewood resident for three ducats to Wallen’s worldwide “One Night At A Time" tour. “The ‘seller’ subsequently emailed ticket confirmation statements [that] turned out to be fraudulent and would not open on the legitimate Ticketmaster website,” the chief said. His detectives ar…
Lifestyle
See Taylor Swift: Eras Tour Movie Comes To Pennsylvania Theaters (And Tickets Are Just $19.89)
Couldn't get tickets to see Taylor Swift's The Era Tour in person? You're very much not alone. But don't worry, Swifties, there's a way to experience the pop culture juggernaut. Get tickets now to see TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR Concert Film only in theaters in North America beginning 10/13. Taylor Swift "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" will be premiering at AMC Theatres across Pennsylvania starting on Friday, Oct. 13 (obviously) with tickets going on sale Thursday, Aug. 31. Showtimes will run Thursdays to Sundays. Standard showings are priced at $19.89 (cute!) for adults and $13.13 fo…
Lifestyle
Taylor Swift Sends PA Girl Roses
A 16-year-old girl received four dozen red roses from 12-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift. This isn't a story of Swift's latest love song, but a sweet "thank you" and apology to a businesswoman. Ripleigh Maring, of Ripleigh's Creamery in McSherrystown, PA and Emmitsburg, MD, is a Swiftie who is a lover of the Billboard hits (she's also a savvy saleswoman) so she made "The Era Collection" of ice cream flavors to sell at her shop ahead of Swift's "Eras Tour" stop in Philadelphia. The collection includes Lavender Haze, Karma, and Bad Blood (plus, there are Enchanted and Bejeweled milkshakes…
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Twitter Blues: PA Celebs Lose Verification Checkmark — But Not Taylor Swift
Celebrities on Twitter: They are now just like us. Twitter began its removal of blue verification checkmarks on Thursday, April 20, for those who did not pay for the company's new Twitter Blue subscription service. Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks. To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOXAXOrganizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here: https://t.co/YtPVNYypHU — Twitter Verified (@verified) April 19, 2023 Kevin Hart, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Bacon, and Miles Teller all had their blue checkmark…
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Former Villanova Cheerleader, Cancer Patient Scores Tickets To Taylor Swift Concert
Raquel Doke says the tight-knit community is what initially attracted her to Villanova University. During her four years of undergrad, the California native immersed herself in campus life, joining a sorority, becoming a member of the cheerleading team and serving as an orientation counselor. Seven years after graduating, the Villanova community has come through once again for now-28-year-old Doke, who is in the midst of a battle against an extremely rare form of cancer. Last month, Doke posted a TikTok in search of the highly sought-after Taylor Swift concert tickets at her friends' urgin…
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Springsteen Tickets Going For Less Than A Soda At Some Venues
Trouble in the heartland: That darkness on the edge of town might just be empty seats during Bruce Springsteen's current tour. Ticket prices for Springsteen's Tuesday night Feb. 21 show with the E Street Band in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dropped as low as $6 each -- with fees -- as resellers found themselves forced to dump. His Valentine's Day shindig at the Toyota Center in Houston saw hundreds of tickets left at as little as 10 bucks and hundreds more between $25 and a C-note days before the big night. A portent of things to come? Good question. Okies who scouted Ticketmaster for seats found the…
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Pennsylvanians Will Have Another Chance To Buy Taylor Swift Eras Tour Tickets, AG Says
If you're a Pennsylvanian and you had trouble securing Taylor Swift's much anticipated Eras Tour tickets, just Shake It Off. Your Wildest Dreams of attending the singer's tour could be coming true, thanks to the Attorney General's Office who worked with Ticketmaster, in an apparent effort to avoid Bad Blood. In an announcement Tuesday, Dec. 13, (the singer's birthday), a new round of ticket opportunities is on the way for those who received presale codes this month, the AG's office said. Attention Swifties:After working directly with Ticketmaster on behalf of the thousands of consumer…
Lifestyle
PA Daddy-Daughter TikTokers Going Viral For 'Love Story' Reaction Video
Thousands of people have done the trend, few have gone viral for it. Rob D'Urbano and his 5-year-old daughter Harper's TikTok take on Taylor Swift's "Love Story" is going viral on the video-sharing app, with more than 19.2M views as of Saturday, Nov. 26. The video shows Broomall's D'Urbano lip-syncing and dancing to the 2008 pop hit, then the camera pans to Harper as she records. Thinking she's filming her dad, she's really filming her reaction to her dad's silly moves. The daddy-daughter duo were even on "Good Morning America," where Rob explained he sent the video to some friends, who sa…
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Ticketmaster Cancels Public On-Sale For Taylor Swift Tour, Citing 'Insufficient' Inventory
It's tough times for Taylor Swift fans who were hoping to purchase tickets for her upcoming tour this week. Ticketmaster has canceled its public on-sale for Swift's "Eras Tour," which was set to open on Friday, Nov. 17. The tour of stadiums across the United States will begin in 2023. "Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled," the company tweeted on Thursday, Nov. 17. Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and…
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PA Taylor Swift Fans Experiencing Ticketmaster Troubles Can Contact Attorney General
Seething Swifties experiencing Ticketmaster troubles are being urged to report their woes. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is hoping that Taylor Swift fans struggling to secure a ticket to the Berks County native's upcoming Eras Tour will contact him. 🎶 Trouble, trouble, trouble 🎶Having trouble using Ticketmaster? Pennsylvanians experiencing problems using the site should submit a complaint to my office: https://t.co/ZMqsSY0N2I — AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) November 17, 2022 Ticketmaster made national headlines for excessive wait times on Tuesday, as fans logged on and …
Lifestyle
Taylor Swift Bringing 'The Eras Tour' To Philadelphia For 3 Nights
It's me – Hi! Taylor Swift has announced the United States dates for her upcoming tour in support of her tenth smash album "Midnights," released last month. "The Eras Tour" will present "a journey through the musical eras" of Swift's career both past and present, the singer said on Twitter. Feeling like the luckiest person alive to get to take these brilliant artists out on tour w/ me: @paramore, @beabad00bee, @phoebe_bridgers, @_girlinred_, @whereisMUNA, @HAIMtheband, @gracieabrams, @whoisgayle & @OwennMusic. I can’t WAIT to see you. It’s been a long time coming 🥰 — Taylor Swif…
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Fan Thanks Taylor Swift For Music By Naming Millipede After Her
Pennsylvania native Taylor Swift has countless Grammy, Billboard and American Music awards. Never in her Wildest Dreams did she think she'd have a new millipede species named after her, too. Derek Hennen, an entomologist and self-proclaimed Swiftie had the idea and he couldn't Shake It Off. He wanted to show the Wyomissing native some appreciation, so he called his discovery the Nannaria swiftae. "I really enjoy Taylor Swift's music, and I've been a fan for years," Henne told Daily Voice. "With this new twisted-claw millipede, I collected it in Tennessee, a state she has lived in — I tho…
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These Celebrities Call Southeastern Pennsylvania Home
Some actors, athletes, musicians, and television personalities call or at one point have called Southeastern Pennsylvania home. Maybe you saw them at the grocery store -- or are still hoping to. Either way, here's your common thread with the rich and famous. Taylor Swift (Singer/Songwriter): West Reading and Wyomissing, PA Yolanda Hadid (Television Personality/Former Model - "RHOBH," Mother to models Gigi, Bella, and Anwar Hadid): New Hope, PA View this post on Instagram A post shared by YOLANDA (@yolanda.hadid) Pink (Singer/Songwriter): …
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