>>> Dumbest. Lawsuit. Ever: Mother’s Work sued for allegedly canning a prego employee.
>>> Who needs Y-100 anyway when there’s the Rhino ’90s box set?
>>> Wookified finally uncovers why there was neither Hall nor Oates at Live8.

Honestly, we’ve tried. But Atrios/Eschaton/Jor-El or whatever the hell you want to call him and his whole post-Kerry blogwhining ilk bores us to tears. And also only reinforces the burn that we started drinking last November to quell in the first place. So we can’t imagine what good EschaCon ó that’s right, a “con” devoted [...]

Once-notorious outlaw-biker rivals, the Pagans and Warlocks are working together to throw a fund-raiser, fresh from helping to repeal laws regarding motorcycle helmets and high handlebars, known as ape-hangers.
DN: Your Chocolate’s In My Peanut Meth

Today’s Vibe: Episode VI [PART ONE]
Today’s Vibe: Episode VI [PART TWO]

Friday:>>DJ Dev 79 has been around for a minute. Aside from playing all that hip hop, dancehall and breaks, Dev’s really into the grime stuff that’s big in the ol’ Terror Alert UK. Tonight he spins the Straight Dope at the Khyber.
>>>Go see Hustle and Flow, opening tonight at the Riverview, and “whoop that [...]

Or, How To Warn People About The Blands On The River Without Actually Putting Them Into The Weekend Picks. It’s easy! Watch:
Jonathan Takiff analyzes this weekend’s pending riverfun:
On the Jersey river bank (with a great view of Philly) is the bargain-priced but full-value WXPN All About the Music Festival featuring the likes of rock icon [...]

…the city’s top counter-terrorism cop, Chief Inspector Joseph O’Connor, said Philly is “notorious for fund-raising and recruitment” for terrorist organizations. The city is also a popular place for hiding out.
Which, when you think about it, should make you feel a lot safer. Because everybody knows that the cool thing about these terrorist guys is that [...]

>>> Yes, it’s a cheap promo trap, and we just fell head first into it: The Sean Agnew/Kobe Bryant trailer for Wedding Crashers. But really: Can you blame us?
>>> Oh, you do? Well then accept our humble apologies and feast your eyes on the R. Kelly mannequin. Terrifying.
>>> But whatever you do, do NOT [...]

Today’s Inky reports on the pitfalls of being a hot dog man in a cheesesteak town. Aside from the usual South Philly suspects (15th and Snyder’s Texas Weiners), writer Robert Strauss (who is no doubt seriously lamenting having to write about cased meat) reports that Rouge, Neil Stein’s last stop on the [...]

With sagging numbers of asses in the pews, one man-boy-love priest scandal after another and on and on, you’d think The Catholic Standard & Times would have more on their plates than the simple and unerring desire to hang onto their Terry Schiavo harpy status. But no:
A reader needs to hunt through the Standard and [...]

Universally loved by dudes with chain wallets and ladies with Vargas tattoos on their thick, sweet white calves, touted in Philly as the second coming of hair grease even though they weren’t even a local band, Hot Snakes have called it a day. Full obit/press release after the jump.

So don’t forget: You only have about two hours left to register for the grand social experiment that is Philebrity Pool Gang.

>>> Honestly? Ordinarily, we could give a flying crewcial about the big Kaiser Cheifs show at the TLA tonight, were it not for ó whoa, why didn’t anyone tell us about this sooner? ó†appearance of The Cribs on the bill. For the uninitiated, we can only say that the great white hope of the Cribs [...]

>>> …why we are morbidly, wonderfully curious about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
>>> …the what and the wherefore behind a grunge-era booty call 15 years in the making.
>>> …the almost certain eruption of a new water-based social model that will be brought about by the jumpoff of Philebrity Pool Gang! Bring your swimmies!

But sometimes they do anyway:
Three people were injured during rush hour Tuesday afternoon when the man — naked after removing his clothing — commandeered a police vehicle and crashed it into a bus and a civilian car.
KYW: Weird Vibes On Market Street

Though I’m surprised this show isn’t stragetically located closer to Geno’s and Pat’s, it’s our duty to inform all you clamoring fans of commercial-friendly hip hop, silly non-dances and fat dudes, that Fat Joe’s damned free concert finally has a location: the Troc, at 10th and Arch. Part of a creepy and somewhat nefarious [...]

Being able to make both the Boss and M.I.A. compute, I have a much bigger pillow to dream on. That’s the Third Way between the specious ultimatum: American Idol or Nick Hornby-which side are you on?
I play the ends against the middle. I get off on the shock of the new, but [...]

Click on yesterday’s newspaper cover to find out why. Got a good grip, dawg?

Owie: It’s not everyday that we get an actual outing thrown over the transom, but god damn it, local PR maven Kelly Boyd must have really pissed someone off at Rit Row barstaurant Twenty Manning. How else would the beloved publicist have wound up on The Shitty Tipper Database, a webring of shame wherein disgruntled [...]

For weeks now ó†evil, hot, sweat-smeared and joyless weeks at that, mind you ó The Philebrity R&D Team has been scanning the city’s every nook and cranny, surveying pools far and wide to figure out just how we can make the hot hot hurty stop. After nearly getting shot twice, arrested once and chased with [...]