Rec’d this list of buildings slated for demolition with the advent of the expansions. Might have to hop on some newsboxes again:
I’ve taken an index of all buildings in the Path. They are:
+ 1238 Race - The fire hall. Built 1925.
+ 105 N. Watts St. - Presently an architecture workshop.
+ 140 N. Juniper St. - [...]

Just a quick heads up: This Friday, we’ll be back at Metro Lounge with a kooky, topsy-turvy edition of Absolute Beginners: Up will be down, and black will be white. Downstairs, Manny, Kyle, Russ and Mike continue their soul blitzkreig at the street level, while Beginners Julie G. and Dryw Scully aka Tall Dryw (making [...]

>>> I’m totally starting a new band called Free Sparks! And our first gig is tonight, at Julie G.’s Driz Horse with special guests Dave P and The Living Things. Like the kids say, um, get involved. 9pm, Upstairs At The Khyber, free.
>>> Meanwhile, unrepentant drama geeks/pantywaists DJ K-Tell & The Dumpsta Players present their [...]

>>>Dan Gross reports that Geraldo will be in town tomorrow, flying in by the Geraldo Copter no less. [DN]
>>>Just when we thought blogging couldn’t get any more mind-numbingly mundane, we read this post. P.S. We totally saved $2.47 on produce at ACME yesterday. [dragonballyee]
>>>That cat that latched onto the bottom of an SUV like Sideshow [...]

We imagine that the big shots who are expanding the monolithic Convention Center were sitting around a while back and saying to each other, “What shouldn’t we do that would totally make this project a huge joke?”
Apparently, inviting droves of recovering drug addicts to be their first customers and have their biennial party there never [...]

We’ve all suspected for a while that John Street has a special realationship with all the ladies out there in Philly. Maybe it’s the hair, maybe it’s those coy little smiles he flashes at all the femme fatales working in the local media. We could never say for sure. But now Jill Porter reveals both [...]

Gerry Loehr, 73, was walking out of the Las Olas Chemist drugstore about noon Saturday when a young, light-haired woman rushed up, grabbed her bag, and walked toward the gray BMW.
“Stop! She has my purse,” Loehr yelled, according to the police report.
Vince Fumo said he came up behind the car, which was nosed into a [...]

the bookmobile van was found.
Close to where it was stolen in W. Philly.
confirmed… they found it… it is a bit messed up and not driveable “right now” but with some repair… back in buisness… thanks to everyone that helped out. happy ending… kind of… but it could be alot worse.
Paging Xzibit! Might be time to [...]

Boy oh boy, did Philebrity editor Joey Sweeney get his Underoos in a bunch when I mentioned that a new Belle and Sebastian album was cause for “a legion of cardigan-clad Millhouses to raise their skinny arms to heaven like antennae.”
Yeah, Lester, but not for the reasons you think: Mostly, it was just because [...]

>>> Get with the second installment of the Sam Champion residency we’re pimping all February long at The Fire. (Yeah, we know: The Fire. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team, right?) Anyway, Sam-Cham is good in a way not many bands are anymore: Pavement-y sludge, sexy sidegrins, the whole magilla. You’re gonna think [...]

HAVE YOU SEEN OUR VAN??
The bookmobile van got stolen sometime between 10pm Monday night and 7.30am
today…It was on 49th street, just north of Baltimore Ave. in West Philly.
It is gigantic, white, and says “projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project” on the
side in 10″ high gray vinyl letters. Pretty hard to miss…
Any sightings/ideas, please call courtney: 267 [redacted, [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Comedian/actor Bernie Mac is in final negotiations to sign on for his first role in a big-screen drama, co-starring with Terrence Howard in “PDR” for Lionsgate Films.
“PDR,” or Philadelphia Department of Recreation, chronicles the real-life story of Jim Ellis (Howard), who in the 1970s [...]

Man. Those CREI people totally make me wanna have sex with robots. Shit. Did I just think that or say that?
Related: Ahh! American Loft Is People!

Like a bunch of fools, we took exactly zero pictures of Saturday night’s already-apparently-legendary Espers/Feathers/Adam Arcuragi bill at The Fels Planetarium. The reason, though, is simple: It’s hard to be be Snappy McSnapsalot when your jaw is plainly on the floor at the amazing prog idyll the show truly was. Luckily, tho, our man Lord [...]

>>> Philly Immigration officers: Go ahead. Explain this one away. [NYT]
>>> Okay! He’s gone! Everyone can go back to talking with our usual WASP-y New England accents again! Rocky Balboa wraps. What a douche. That guy actually thinks we talk like that! [Inky]
>>> And you. Yeah, you over there, with the pocket full of quarters. [...]

>>> Fans of the belatedish Asteroid #4 will be delighted to check in with The Unfaithful Servants ó†a new group consistin’ of 3 of the old ‘Stroids and John Z of the late, beardy Rifle Choir. This is their first gig. With Krass Bros. and DJ Orlando Calrissian. Good show, no doubt, but damn that [...]

Flickr: Angelo Yap At Absolute Beginners [slideshow]

I book concerts for a living. I used to work for the largest performance hall in downtown Philly, a nonprofit that relies heavily on private and public support just to meet its operating expenses. The cost structure there is such that, between the unions and the maintenance and so forth, the margins are [...]

Yay, douchebags! This morning comes the news that our fair city, in a cold wintry blast of wehavenofuckingidea, will see fit to bulldoze the area from Arch to Race and 13th to Broad streets in a frankly mind-blowing effort to turn the area into the world’s largest TGI Friday’s. Among the displaced:
ï†Center City Car Wash [...]

>>> Attn: Philly street urchins: Your magical day has arrived. Please go easy on the Arctic Splash and hipster-intended ice balls. [KYW]
>>> Need to catch up with the news about the UNRELENTING, POUNDING snow that PELTED this region with HOT WHITE precipitation that left you LYING in BED all day yesterday, hoping that someone would [...]