Today’s Vibe is a new podcast talk radio show with your hosts, Erik Bader and Richard Cement Flom. You kind of have to hear it to believe it. Lovers of life and livers of love, Bader and Flom tackle all of the important issues of the day, whatever they may be. So put on your [...]

Alright, yon teenagers, we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to tonight’s Architecture In Helsinki/Dr. Dog/Head Of Femur show at the First Unitarian Church. (More info at R5 Productions, doncha know.) Just to be nice. Truly, if you cannot find something to love in one of these three musical groups, well, you’ll probably be fine. [...]

That’s right, it’s the Channel 6 messageboard. Imagine standing in line for lottery tickets in hell (or Mayfair), and you’re only starting to get a picture.

>>> DO: Revel in the dago-try that is Anthony Gargano from 610 WIP. His family is opening a new gelato place at 6th and Walnut. They flew the family patriarch over from Italy to make the gelato. Who’s-a-next!
>>> DON’T: Ask us how much Dingleberry and The Crazy Doctor, whoops, I mean those fat fucks [...]

“Everybody thinks that New Jersey has this attitude, that we’re cocky,” she said. “But our main thing is tourism, and when you’re working at the Shore, their problems are your problems.”
Tell that to the girls sitting in tank tops over bikinis, text-messaging their friends, doodling impassively in the margins on their handouts, rolling their eyes, [...]

>>> File under “air-conditioned and free”: DJs Dryw Scully (pictured with mysterious female) and J. Gabriel Boylan do their avoiding-outdoors-at-all-costs thing at Johnny Brenda’s tonight, and while Boylan is going to want to kill us for spreading around the biggest banger record in his whole bag tonight, it must be said, this is the fucking [...]

Last night at the mighty North Star Bar:
Police said two men in their early 20s were seen running from the bar after the shooting at about 10 p.m. Police said the victim staggered back into the bar and was conscious while he waited for police to arrive.
We’re no great fans of those “Troc Crew: Fuck [...]

It is an embarrassing spot for a city that prides itself on its many fine institutions of higher learning: sandwiched between the Rust-Belt wrecks of Akron and Toledo, 92d on a list of 100 communities ranked by the percentage of residents with college degrees.
Mmm-hmmm…
Inky: Don’t Call It A Comeback! We’ve Been Sluggin’ Through Night School [...]

In which our hero cops to finally digging Led Zep because: “To me, Led Zeppelin has always been militantly Y-chromosomal, primitive man banging head, suggestive of being in heat and dismissive of women who, say, admire Jane Austen and wear cashmere.” Or wait. That was why she wasn’t into them. Someone please pass the mudshark.
Inky: [...]

Okay, so a few days ago, we asked you for your retarded Making Time stories of yore. In return, we said, we’d give a pair of passes to this weekend’s Making Time to the best entry. So far, the results have been trickling in. Most of them have been unpublishable because they directly name Philebrity [...]

Friday:
>>> The Lesser Birds of Paradise are this great little band from Chicago, and together with Like Moving Insects and The Future Tips, they make for a great bill that is all about what we like to refer here in the Philebrity Office Park as today’s vibe. Fans of alt-country, mungo, indie and whatever else [...]

A message to the heavens or Chestnut Hill or wherever departed editor Zach Stalberg may be: Okay, we’re saying “uncle” already! Come back! Please? Seriously. We’ll do anything! Just spare us from this.

Ok, so, just a gentle reminder to type up your retarded Making Time story now because shit, man, FREE TICKETS are at stake! Go, go, go! Do it!

>>> Oh, see how we rate! Celebrate the inclusion of Philadelphia into the pantheon of those Not For Tourists books at the NFT Release Party at the Khyber. Download the invite at their site and get a free drink or messenger bag or something. One question for the NFT folks, though: Why do you have [...]

Man, this really is going to be the best summer ever!
Last Monday, the first truly hot day of the year, the city ran out of ambulances for almost the entire morning and afternoon, a dearth of resources that left fire engines and ladder trucks to respond to emergency medical calls.
CP: You’re Having A Stroke, [...]

Now that we’ve invited the world to a free concert on July 2, the devilish work of hosting up to a million guests begins.
Mayor Street has yet to sign a contract with the promoters of the Live 8 concert.
Oh, that’s a good sign!
Inky: How We’ll Shame Ourselves Yet Again

Ah, Craigslist: That place where you can read others make observations about the city that you yourself probably made five years ago. Case in point: The running mud-throw on Missed Connections regarding the dual life of The 700 Club. During the week, it’s a stone hang, a Cheers for early adopters, if you will; by [...]

Because this Saturday, June 11, is the Making Time 5 Year Anniversary Freakout with LCD Soundsystem at Transit. It’s going to be intense, it’s going to be bawdy, and good God, it’s gonna be hot as balls. But you should go. For the past five years, Making Time has been the only respite from [...]

Sike! We’re just keeeeeding!

In a horrifyingly brazen suck-up maneuver, Jessica Pressler plants mouth to rim on chick-lit softie Melissa Banks. The result?
Well, so what. Most writers tell the same story over and over again (though they usually try to disguise it a little better), and The Wonder Spot is extremely enjoyable. As the title suggests, the [...]