Famous 4th Street Deli is changing hands. Hopefully, the new owners will keep the cookie recipe, stop making the sandwiches a continuing reminder of why you should go veg, and spray down the back to get rid of the lingering smells of Old Spice and patronage.
Inky: Meat Drill!

Here’s a bit of sunshine for ya on this wonderful Monday morn.
Inky: 22 People Killed By Guns In 11 Days

Probably no less than a thousand prayers were answered this weekend when that bastion of gentility and politesse, Doc Watson’s, got shut down in a police raid. After years of screwing bands, intimidating promoters and just generally being shady bastards, what finally did the club in? Getting caught with 88 underage drinkers. At one time. [...]

Friday:
>>> Hear it all on glorious vinyl asTESTIFY! returns with DJs Russell Alexander, Mic-Lo and Miss Marianne jock raw funk, boogaloo and other rarely-seen ’60s-isms also taught in Awesome Class. At Silk City.
>>> See the debut of The Ages, a delicious new hybrid of Windsor For The Derby and The National Eye at the Millcreek [...]

So Philebrity’s been jocking Diplo since day one. And that kid who does the culture reports on WHYY, Joel Rose, is one of our most upstanding Cute Boy Alert alumns. So what happens when you dip our Joely peanut butter in Diplo’s fancy chocolate? Radio magic, people! Believe.
WHYY: Joel Rose On, And With, Diplo

City Council ethics bill, shot down:
The five Council members who voted against the measure were Jannie Blackwell, Darrell L. Clarke, Rick Mariano, Donna Reed Miller and Marian Tasco.
Philebrity would like to offer these fine citizens our heartiest, deepest and wildest FUCK YOU. Enjoy your weekend!
Inky: Back To The Drawing Board
DN: You Should Be Ashamed Of [...]

……..and now white people are rioting. Benny ADMITS HE HAS NO GAME AND IS A BIT PLAYER IN THE CORPORITIZED INDIE ROCK WORLD.

Apparently, there were a few problems: Frank DiCicco tried to fill his ballot in with orange crayon, and there were some numbers problems in ascertaining the proper ratio of grease to palms.
Inky: Run Wild With Your Tobacco, You Hoarse Flowers!

Hold your horses, there, buddy, before you get all decked out in native Sri Lankan garb for the big MIA show at the Ukie Hall this Sunday. Seems she’s having trouble getting into the states. What with her dad being a terrorist and all. Girls say wha, huh, boys say wha. R5 says the show [...]

Now, regarding Penn kids: When you do finally smite them, please make sure that you do NOT erase the comments pages on the website for The Daily Pennsylvanian. For this is the only way that future generations will know that they really, really deserved it.
DP: Sonic Youth To Play Penn Spring Fling

Even though the fact that the story of Y-100’s demise and slight return made it all the way into the pages of Rolling Stone is indeed impressive, we can’t help but wonder if this is, after all, the sound of one culturally irrelevant hand clapping for another. Sigh.
RollingStone: Y-100 On Being And Nothingness
Backstory: Philebrity On [...]

>>> Although we have no link for you, no bios, no mp3s, we can honestly say that you need to get thee to The Standard Tap tonight to see the debut of Ben Dickey and Drew Mills. Furreal. Ben is the singer in the wildly great Tom Petty tribute band, The Big Jangle; and you [...]

So, hey: What’s better than getting on a plane, going to some dogshit boho town for a week, blowing your rent money on tequila and BBQ while watching one self-deluded indie rock band after another throw themselves on the altar of I-was-there-even-though-no-one- even-cares-about-this-shit-anymore? Answer? HAVING SOMEONE DO IT FOR YOU. So our man Benny is [...]

“I know they were looking into some kind of security issue regarding other inmates maybe wanting to get a little too friendly or close to him,” says Perri. “He’s popular. The inmates want to do things for him. So I think he’s being treated a little differently for an administrative reason.”
Administrative, right. [...]

Ripped from the headlines, folks.
DN: The Weird, Slight Return Of John Chaney
Inky: Iverson Breaks Thumb, Fucks Up Aura

Not only is it Lit & Whimsy, Philly Weekly’s reading series at Tritone, but it’s also Stay Loose at The Khyber, with, oh my God, Lord Whimsy. Oh my god.
Full huckster rant after the jump.

DEAD MACHINES (mem. of Wolf Eyes)
HAIR POLICE
WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE
SHARKS WITH WINGS
DJ SETS BY JOHN OLSON (DEAD MACHINES) & MIKE CONNELY (HAIR POLICE)
2011 S. JUNIPER STREET (@ SNYDER AVE)
9PM
TUES, MARCH 15
$5 (suggested donation)
bios on R5 Productions

Damn those clever book people at Molly’s Bookstore. We were gonna blow this off as spam, but damn it if We Work At The Bookstore, their newsletter, isn’t the most entertaining thing to pass over the transom all week. There’s even a Raymond Carver game!
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WE WORK AT THE BOOKSTORE, No. 1
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The Official Email Newsletter [...]