>>> The Backseat Film Festival gets its proper kickoff tonight, and people, let us tell you: It’s gonna be porntastic. (What is up with all the pornbites today?) Anyway, peep the full schedule here, but know that tonight is the Philly premiere of The Repenetrator with newly minted punk-porn queen Joanna Angel in attendance and […]

For Immediate Release:† February 28, 2006
MEDIA ADVISORY
Mayor John F. Street to Announce Signing of Agreements with Earthlink to Bring Wireless Access to Every Philadelphia Neighborhood
WHO:††††††† Mayor John F. Street with City Solicitor Romy Diaz, MOIS
††††††††††††††††† Chief Information Officer Dianah Neff, EarthLink
††††††††††††††††† executives, Wireless Philadelphia’s board of directors,
††††††††††††††††† community leaders and others.
WHAT:††††††Mayor Street will announce the […]

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PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable operator, has reached a deal with IFC Entertainment to show selected independent movies at the same time the releases hit theaters.
Philadelphia-based Comcast said indie films from “IFC in Theaters” will be shown through its “On Demand” service, which stores movies, TV shows and other video for subscribers […]

>>> PGW, no longer content to fuck up your bill/credit/life, is now ugly-fyin’ your house. For real: We cannot wait until you bitches get sold. [ChangingSkyline]
>>> Mariano aide buys house for a dollar ó a dollar. On the other hand, it was in the Northeast, so maybe that’s a kind of justice. You decide. [Inky]
>>> […]

Which is to say, they take a business in the sex industry that’s been around for years, tap its non-press-savvy employees for quotes and then wrap it all up in a big ball of “Oh, the humanity!” This time, it’s National A-1 Advertising, parent company of some big phone sex lines and HotMovies.com. Confidential to […]

A: No, asshole, he didn’t. So take off the beads, put your girlfriend’s tits back into that hideous polar fleece thing she’s wearing, and get back to your cubicle with your buddies where you can listen to Preston & Steve and maybe, just maybe, cry/masturbate with relative dignity again.
To the rest of you: HAPPY FAT […]

>>> Cute Boy Alert alumnus Ramona Cordova does a set at Silk City, and it’s sure to be mellow and sublime. And what with that Silk City clock ever-ticking (last day March 31? maybe?), get your mellow Silk hangs in before God done used ‘em all up, yo. 10pm, $5.
>>> And of course, the return […]

02/18 - Luke is a chaperone during April’s school trip to a math contest held in Philadelphia.[…] Alicia Mattheson, a woman who works for The Weekly comes in. It seems she may write a piece about a poet who’ll perform later. Matthew takes care of her. It is at that moment, that Jess notices […]

So, tomorrow night is Sam Champion’s last night of their residency at the Fire, and before they go, we wanted to do a big Cap’n Freebang to send ‘em off right. After all, this last show is with Slo-Mo with Seth from Gingersol and This Radiant Boy. So today, one luck winner will cop:
? A […]

>>> Man Man are about to terrorize America! [Pitchfork]
>>> Some Velvet Blog says fuckit and just goes straight for the PSK. [SVB]
>>> And, Enrico gets a Myspace page! Honestly, dude? I know people whose dogs had Myspace pages before you finally got off your ass and got one. Welcome to the Internet! [700Level]

Oh my God. Ex-guv Mark Schweiker (no, we don’t remember him, either) is still pounding the Philly Olympics 2016 drum. It could happen, says he! No, really! And seriously, Schweiker and his camp will say appparently anything to get the thought in people’s heads:
UPenn and Drexel, Temple and Villanova universities could also potentially host events. […]

Sadly, it does not. But wow.
BoingBoing: It Is Entirely Too Early For This Kind Of Nonsense

WYSP-FM (94.1) afternooner Kidd Chris will fill in on the morning shift next week as the syndicated David Lee Roth vacations. Chris will be heard only in Philly, not in Roth’s other cities. In a head-spinningly confounding move, WYSP will rerun Chris’ morning show tomorrow through Wednesday the same day in his regular 3-to-7 time […]

>>> Awful truth: Try Googling “Eagles fans crying.” Shit doesn’t even try to correct you. [PhillySucks]
>>> What is PNI worth? Even the answer to that is fucking bo-ring. [Inky]
>>> Philly tap water: Now with 50% more freakish hermaphroditic sperm. [Inky]

? Why, I wouldn’t trade you for the most beautiful girl in the world!
? Yeah, seriously: All local bands are this great.
? Honestly, Officer, we’ve never even heard of a cease-and-desist.
? Gosh, you don’t look a day older than grungey-two!
? Sometimes I get drunk and I say things I don’t mean.

Friday:
>>> Yo, we were just cruising the listings for tonight and we realized a pretty interesting thing: There is absolutely fuck-all going on in the city of Philadelphia this evening. Except for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. After weeks and weeks of Fridays where you had a choice between Abso and Spintos and Making Times and Spin The […]

As we reported yesterday, Prince ó†yes, PRINCE ó is going to be the Electric Factory next Wednesday with T·mar, the sultry honey what with he turned it out on Saturday Night Live a few weeks back. And as promised, we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away. Just send an email to tips [at] […]

Our UPS man is the shit. Real nice guy, but God-damn, he has the total cop-knock. WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP! And we’re always like, “Destroy the computers! What we do is SECRET!” And then we go to the door, and it’s Ol’ Brownie, meanwhile, Jersey Dan just took a hatchet to my girlfriend’s eMac and we’re […]

Officer Nick DiDonato was in for the sting: “The doorman seen it on the monitor and he said, ëhere comes the policeí and took off toward the rear and one of the other men we have in custody took off toward the rear and they took money from the cash box.”
Honissley dawg? Dem […]