>>> What – like you’re not gonna play The State of The Union Drinking Game? If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry. Not enough dissent for you? Try the screening of Operation Dreamland at International House at 7pm. See also protest info below.
>>> Question: Has anyone in Philly ever paid for a copy of Anthem? No, [...]

NBC10: Making You Dumber Is Easy As Pie

>>> Full Earthlink wireless deployment by spring ‘07. It’ll be $9 a month and no one will pay for it. [KeystonePolitics]
>>>RIP: McFadden of TSOP legends McFadden & Whitehead. [Billboard]
>>> And yes, that was indeed The A-Sides you done heard on the MTV last night. Writes a reader: “The song ‘Sidewalk Chalk’ was used on the [...]

At City Coffee, just across the street from Camden City Hall, they are offering a cup of joe, help with tax returns, and – if you really want to know – that pesky DNA paternity test.
Owner Ronald Ford Jr. has produced the region’s first known marriage of coffee and DNA. In just five workdays, you [...]

Just a quick FYI: The State Of The Union address is tonight, and if you have any sense at all, your blood will be boiling but five minutes into it. If this is more than you can bear, know that WorldCan’tWait is staging a series of protests in cities across America to, at the very [...]

Yes, people actually subscribe to this. Right before they run out and buy cowboy boots and Moby CDs.

As many readers of this site already know, we are unabashedly over-the-moon geeky about Belle & Sebastian, and in fact, have been so since, oh, around 1996. We know what some people have to say about that, and if you say it to our faces, we will definitely knock your fucking teeth out. So last [...]

Pardon the outage. Philebrity was experiencing technical difficulties today. But we’ve called Mommy and everything will be back on point for tomorrow.

>>> Quizzo: It’s only ever any fun if it dissolves into a chickenhead fight. [NorthernLiberties.oorg]
>>> Enrico warns would-be Rocky Balboa hater-ators: “He ended the cold war single-handed for Christ’s sake.” [700Level]
>>> Chester County is apparently worried that people may start marrying dogs. You’d think it was bullshit until you spent a happy hour one Friday [...]

Last year, Matthew Thompkins gave a writer from Ozone, a hip-hop magazine based in Florida, a daylong tour of his life and business, the FBI said. The magazine’s December issue featured a pimp named “Brandon” who cruises around Las Vegas in his white Range Rover, offering a string of one-liners and holding forth on his [...]

? Jersey Cops: Not as self-aware as we thought.
? Free TV just got wayyyyyy better.
? At this point, even Stephen Starr knows that NYC is for Jersey-ites and lame-o’s with fat wallets and a me-too jones. Or, as the case may be, Jones.
? Do you have a little Russian in you? No? Would you like [...]

Friday:
>>> We tried it last week, and we loved it so much, we bought the company! And so this week, our winter weekly Absolute Beginners begins. Our formula is simple: Pack two floors and five rooms of sweet club (actually, we forgot “The Sawdust Room” so that makes it six) with the coolest people we [...]

?†FIRE!
? Wooouuulfff-MAAAAANNN! Look at just how much Carl Libertines is just, like, not having it.
? Philly hipster dodgeball memories. Sigh.

>>> To clarify: At least this blog has not whored itself for a free all-expense paid trip to Amsterdam. But only because no one asked us to. Space cakes. Serious. [Romanesko]
>>> Record nerd cries foul for Pearls & Brass! They wuz robbed on the ‘Fork, says he, and here’s why. [BlackmailIsMyLife]
>>> National Eye Promotional Whizbang [...]

Venezuela’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez, who has been a persistent antagonist to President Bush, is providing relief to some poor families in the Philadelphia region squeezed by the high price of home-heating oil.
A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship five million gallons of heating oil for distribution at a steep discount to [...]

Ladies love him, girls adore him: Colin Meloy of The Decemberists is in town tonight at The TLA and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away. We don’t bother that much with The Decemberists, so we googled the dude, and apparently, he is like the Tom Jones of the read-Pitchfork-but-shop-at-Anthropologie set. News to [...]

No, Daily News, you don’t have to get out of your seat. (Frankly, we’re still a little bit pissed about this.) Instead, let’s all doff our caps to The Philadelphia Gay News, which turns 30 this week. Congrats, kids. May you have 30 more, by which time, everyone else will have gone gay anyway, and [...]

Again.
For weeks, Democrats have accused Santorum of being part of a larger GOP effort to pressure lobbying firms into hiring Republicans and supporting the party’s agenda. They held up his biweekly meetings with lobbyists as an example of the Pennsylvania senator creating the kind of cozy environment between lobbyists and lawmakers that led to the [...]

>>> Last Love returns with Chetana & Darshana and Bryan & Pearl spinning, oh hell yes, “psychedelia dreams.” Hopefully there’s some Bat Macumba in that funny dream potion. Upstairs at The Khyber, 9pm, free, with free Pabst from 9 to 10pm.
>>> Andy Greenwald REPRESENT! Everybody’s favorite ex-Bryn Mawr Borders clerk-turned-jetsetting rock journo has just issued [...]

i’m about as sure as one can be that as i was sitting at the light in front of the art museum this morning i saw a man bundled in sweats, in a wheelchair, being dragged up the steps and rolling back down a few as he pulled fake out punches at whatever other [...]