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Mo'ne Davis launches her holiday sneaker collection

The Jenkintown star was spotted with Eagles owner Jeff Lurie Monday watching the game at the Linc.

Mo's Xmas sneaks

Little League sensation Mo'ne Davis launches her holiday sneaker collection today. This is Mo'ne's second collection in the "Because I Am a Girl" line with the brand M4D3.

Part of the proceeds from each shoe sale goes directly to Plan International USA's "Because I Am a Girl" initiative, which supports millions of young girls living in poverty.

Brad Coop sings for the Birds

Movie heartthrob and Jenkintown native Bradley Cooper was in the house for the Eagles' crushing Monday-night win over the New York Giants at Lincoln Financial Field (1 Lincoln Financial Field Way).

TMZ.com even has a video of him singing the Eagles' fight song with team owner Jeffrey Lurie after one of the Birds' touchdowns.

I hear that Cooper, who portrayed an Eagles fan in 2012's "Silver Linings Playbook," came along as Lurie's guest.

Opera fest announced

Daily News correspondent Tom DiNardo reports that Opera Philadelphia will debut a 12-day urban opera festival in September 2017 that will continue annually thereafter.

Over the course of the festival, seven operatic happenings will take place at six venues across the city, heralding what the company is calling a "radical, new way" to experience grand opera. The inaugural festival, dubbed "O17," is slated for Sept. 14-25, 2017, with performances by a slew of internationally renowned composers and artists, such as dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones.

Ex-TV anchor has new book

Former NBC10 news anchor Tim Lake has written a book on 1951, a record year for plane crashes at a time when passenger aviation was just becoming popular. One such crash happened right here in Philly. In Hang On and Fly, Lake describes how Mary Frances "Frankie" Housley, the lone flight attendant on an airplane, led 10 passengers to safety moments before National Airlines Flight 83 went up in flames. She died after rushing back inside to rescue a baby. Find the book at smashwords.com on Sunday.

"It started as a family genealogy project," said Lake. "When I discovered how this and many other plane crashes of 1951 to '52 shaped people's fear of flying, I was determined to make it into a great book.

"As a reporter who's covered a few major plane crashes, I can't imagine what it must have been like when three or four large passenger planes were crashing every month."

Aussie pop tart cancels tour

Australian pop artist Cody Simpson was slated for a show at the new Fillmore (1100 Canal St.) on Saturday, but because of what a publicist called "an unforeseen personal conflict," he had to cancel.

Simpson, the singer with the Vanilla Ice haircut, called off 10 other shows across the country this month. Before the cancellation, though, I got a few minutes over the phone with Simpson, who dated model Kylie Jenner for a time.

"I came to the point where I had the courage and the voice to go independent," Simpson said. Signed to U.S. record label Atlantic Records at the ripe young age of 13, he now runs his own Coast House Records.

"I want to share that message with other young people also - that you don't have to conform to what other people think you should be doing . . . find that sort of freedom that I found early."

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