Sez CNN:
The state tourism office has created six blogs for selected “real people” to record their visits to prime Pennsylvania locations over the summer in exchange for their expenses paid.
Wow! This sounds right up our alley! How about we give it a shot?
Dear Diary,
Life in Philly is just about as usual today. We woke up [...]

So, this is good news. Not least because it’ll put that Salvador Dali exhibit (and the like) exactly where it belongs: In the fucking basement.
The subterranean galleries would increase the museum’s available display space by 60 percent. The underground level would include a larger special exhibition gallery, capable of hosting blockbuster shows such as the [...]

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>>> Bored by most of the Inky columnists’ testy responses to your question on their get-to-know-me pages? Oh how Philly.com feels your pain. Their salve? Ask Carol Alt. Snarf.
>>> Say, are you a vapid stripe-shirt guy/Juicy Couture girl who wants to know the buzz on all the hottest progressive house DJs and wants to debate [...]

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASCA - News) today announced that it has renewed its option to purchase 13 acres of prime Delaware waterfront in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, and has acquired the right to purchase 14 acres southwest of the site as well.
Amazing. Fishtown just went from being the arse of the world to [...]

Police closed an exterior courtyard at for several hours at Philadelphia City Hall while a former city employee, who was threatening to jump from 12 stories up on a scaffold, was talked out of making the leap.
Upon coming back down to ground level, the dude was then charged with making terroristic threats, criminal trespass, risking [...]

>>> Surely you’ve not been watching The Simpsons twice a day, every day for the last 10 years without thinking, “God, if only there was a way to make money doing this.” Oh, but there is. Simpsons Trivia at The Khyber. Gee, ya think there will be any potheads at this?
>>> Elsewhere, DJs Laura Fields [...]

[Ex-gf of Bam Margera] Jenn Rivell called Friday’s “Chio in the Morning” show and said Margera, the Pocopson Township, star of “Viva La Bam,” told her that he’d recently slept with married pop tart Jessica Simpson.
First of all, this is the morning show on Q102. Snarf. Secondly, only other people from Delco could even understand [...]

I was going to make a joke just now about how Live 8 is also going to forgive all Street debts as well as those of Africa, but then all the ghosts of my racist ancestors started laughing so hard I got really, really freaked out. Their hellchains began rattling, and then they all started [...]

Hi, everybody. Sweeney here, just popping in to say I have returned from, uh, the foothills of my mind. Where have I been the last three weeks? Oh, you know, here and there: Maintaining the Philebrity Myspace profile, getting really into the Kabbalah, practicing organic cooking and wondering why guest editor Maggie Serota and Daniel [...]

>>>Fri: Show the boys from 80’s mope-rock masters King God some love at the North Star tonight. It’s their long awaited release party! Joining them will be favorite sons The Yah Mos Def and Blood Feathers featuring the Fishtown pin-up boy Quentin from Mazarin. Don’t even think about it, ladies. He’s taken.
Also having a CD [...]

Hey Kids, Captain Freeshit is here to advise the friends of Peter Dyer to start kissing his ass immediately cause he’s the winner of 2 free tickets to Electrelane at the Khyber on Saturday!!!
So, Peter Dyer, you lucky duck, come on down!

After several gossip colomnists reported various Jim Carrey sightings around town, it came to light that he was in town paying a social call to director M. Night Shyamalan. According to Daily News columnist Dan Gross, Shyamalan is also planning to shoot a film this summer about “an apartment super who finds a mermaid [...]

>>>Upstairs at The Khyber, there’s Nylon where you can presumably watch some white kids awkwardly flail their limbs at yet another indie rock/hip hop dance party. Hey, but there are 2 dollar well drinks.
>>>Eh, there’s not much else. Despite the fact that you’re bitter over George Lucas already having so much of your money, just [...]

Oh man, the feud between WIP personalities Cataldi and Eskin has reached Tupac and Biggie proportions. Well, unlike Tupac and Biggie, we’re willing to bet neither Cataldi nor Eskin has spent a night committing unspeakable acts with a bevy of leggy models on top of a pile of money. Just call it a hunch.
Anyway, Cataldi’s [...]

Restaurater Neil Stein might get to take a bit of a vacation from slinging hash to yuppies after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges. Well, this is the kind of vacation that involves orange jumpsuits and ankle shackles, but it’s time off.
Although, we have a feeling that Stein’s employees might think the only appropriate punishment [...]

South Jersey developer William Juliano has a public temper tantrum via billboard after the Garden State rejected his plans to build a new Home Depot.
Inky: God, We Wish We Were Rich Enough To Put Up A Sour Billboard Everytime Someone Told Us “No.”

Between the thick-necked frat boys arranged on the balcony like some living “Evolution of Man” poster, the “accidentally” exposed thong straps, and the sound of roofies rattling around various shirt pockets, it seems like there couldn’t have been any less of a reason to vist Fat Tuesday. Well, except for the possibility of having [...]