[A quick note about This Evening: Some of you have surely noticed the lack of evening picks during the week as of late. There is no mysterious reason for this: It's just that there hasn't been much good stuff to send you to. Ah, January. Please also bear in mind that if you have a [...]

Oh, the miracle you are, Craig. Here’s two from our favorite new poster in Rants & Raves, a person we will call The AnchorHater: a menacing foe to all that is blown dry! Channel 3, 6 or 10, it doesn’t matter! (We’re guessing AH is leaving Fox29 behind since Jennaphr Frederick is her own punchline.) [...]

Write your own joke.
DN: Foggy Vaginoplasty Breakdown!

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Sometimes “rock stars” can convince themselves that their fellow scenesters are their friends, rather that those who have demonstrated the real meaning of the word. Since it is now apparent that you’ll never be a rock star ( narcissism, not lack of talent ), you’d do well to remember the world outside your ego. [...]

Gotta love the South Philly Review:
A professionally trained opera singer, BÈatrice Beer, like many musicians, has supplemented her income through lessons she conducts at her house.
But those lessons have, quite literally, created headaches for some of her neighbors on the 1300 block of Castle Avenue.
On the heels of a neighborhood petition aimed at silencing the [...]

This one’s been missing from our lives for too long. Best used when recollecting — or trying to, anyway — the previous night’s events. Example: “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: All of Philebrity got effing faced at the Puma/Cobras & Matadors thing. Oh my God, I saw you there! That’s right!” Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Posting: [...]

Seriously. It was like colonial times! Amazing. We got so much done. Would you like one of these scones we made?
Inky: In The Beginning, There Was Rhythm

[Image courtesy Niser, who pleads his case thusly: "john street NEEDS to know about the tsunami!! donate 5 dollars to help enron victims too." With logic like that, who could argue? Dig in your pockets, kids!]

Star and his half-brother Buc Wild get smack-a-lacked!
Morrill said station managers have had “extensive discussions” since learning about the clip Thursday with Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, and Buc Wild, his half-brother, Timothy Joseph.
“It was made clear this is not acceptable, and it won’t happen again,” Morrill said.
She said the more serious matter [...]

$1.8 million in meth nabbed in the Northeast. To get a mental picture of just how much meth this is, just imagine what $1.8 million in Taco Bell food looks like. Okay? Now, just paint it white.
Inky: Nice To Meth You!

For his part, Mr. Eschenbach, midway through his second season as the orchestra’s music director, led an organically shaped and often incisive performance, though the playing was noticeably uneven, particularly in the first movement.
POW! GAZAM!
NYT: Orchestra Beef Heats Up; Mixtape Violin Battle Ensues

You know, because the crimes here that involve guns are so rare! Oh wait, that’s not what they mean.
CNN: The Gun Club

No, this is not an Onion article.
WorldNetDaily: Forgive Them Lord, They Know Not How Many Black People They Just Pissed Off
Somewhat less crazy version of the story here.

Ok, girls and gay boys, this one’s a little bit of a fixer-upper. Dave comes to us by way of his friend Lindsey, who says that yeah, he’s cute and all, and like totally available (we presume — either that or Lindsey seriously hates Dave’s girlfriend, but whatever), and that we should at least clown [...]

We’re going to go out on a limb here. You know how you always hear people say, “Oh, hipsters are so lame, and glub, glub, glub, gargle gargle goo…?” Ok. Well, Philebrity is going to make a promise to you right now: We’re never going to say anything like that. At all. If you’re a [...]

Not content to merely molest the skyline, rape the city in the name of jobs and drone everybody into a fat-and-happy monoculture (and a really fucking dorky monoculture at that), Comcast now… owns more shit. Great.
PBJ: Comcast Buys Some Shit You Will One Day Pay For And Use
PBJ: Comcast Rolls Out Residential Phone Service. Yay.

Pardon us for tooting the South Philly horn, but honestly, folks: When you disregard the crack trade, the prostitution trade, the surly racism. the hot eyes of nosy neighbors on your every move and the mess of dirty children, it’s really not that bad!
Of the 330 homicides reported citywide, only about 6 percent — 21 [...]

Helen Hunt… is scouting for a town in which to shoot a film she’s written, according to Sharon Pinkenson, head of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office… Pinkenson was mum on further details, but Hunt is known to have written a light comedy called Then She Found Me, a mother-daughter story based on the book by [...]

Well, it finally happened: After suffering a God-only-knows-how-long bout of redevelopus interruptus, Will Smith and his brother Harry have finally rid themselves of the dirty hole previously known as NewMarket. Sad. But look on the bright side — with the job-giving, city-helping do-gooder schtick finally thrown aside, this can only mean one thing. Less local [...]

Regular readers of this site will know that while we may not appear to have a tremendous amount of respect for the Inky, it is, like it or not, the paper of record. And to a certain degree, that’s always been ok by us. They do what they do, and it becomes fact, and facts, [...]