The Bowery Presents: Check Out Whose Comin’ July 21st!

You’re my little choochy face. My oochy woochy goochy choochy face. You’re the apple strudel of my eye. You’re my little choochy face. And you’re my teddy bear. Together we’re an oochy woochy oochy choochy pair. Your choochy woochy nose, your choochy wocchy eyes. They set my heart a flutter. Your choochy goochy ways. Your [...]

>>> Hey, remember Morimotogate? Here’s where we get to snicker at the sluggish alt-weekly news cycle and wonder: Why do they bother? [PW]
>>> Food for thought: In North Philly local politics, an extra 18 votes can get you in. But NOTHING can get you out. [DN]
>>> Aaron Rowand jerseys get a sudden spike in sales. [...]

>>> Oh, and it just wouldn’t be spring without Morrissey’s Birthday Party at 700. Sway and thrill to Smiths/Mozzer classics, and avoid the uncomfortable question everyone’s too afraid to ask: Thrilling as the Mozzer’s comeback may be, why does it have to happen at a time when he’s making some of the most patently uninteresting [...]

You know, just try and do a good deed. We just tried it for the first time — hey, we heard good things — and guess what? NEVER AGAIN. We finally got our first subscriber copy of W — you know the one with the hubba-hubba weirdy-weirdy spread of Madonna horsing around with horses the [...]

In the works for years now, beset by red tape of every stripe imaginable and, most recently, an electrical fire, North Bowl ‚Äî Oron Daskal’s bowling alley dream on N. Second Street, just shy of The Standard Tap ‚Äî is about to finally become a reality. Sources say no opening date is set yet, but [...]

Just what is it about mystery and music that makes magic when combined? When we think about it, some of our favorite bands, we don’t know dick about. Think of it: Right up until all of those books came out, we lived in a total informational blackout regarding The Smiths. We still know fuck-all, relatively, [...]

Caught at Broad and Walnut during the Rittenhouse Row festival a few weeks ago.

500 Philadelphians turned out on Saturday, May 20, 2006 to protest the introduction of a Las Vegas sized casino into one of Philadelphia’s residential neighborhood. Although the demonstration shut down traffic on Columbus Blvd. for the better part of an hour, you wouldn’t know any of this if you read the Inquirer.
On its face, the [...]

>>> Public Citizen outs Ricardo as K Street’s biggest hog: That boy is a P-I-G! Time to make the bacon, Dick. [Attytood]
>>> Arlen Specter is no longer ‘the only thing standing between us and a dictatorship’: Seriously, this is second only to the Magic Bullet Theory when it comes to burying inconventient truths in procedural [...]

Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. and the McClatchy Co. waited late last night for that final approval, according to people familiar with the talks. The group’s organizer, Brian P. Tierney, dined on takeout from La Collina at his Gladwyne office, while in Center City lawyers with Dilworth Paxson L.L.P. pored over last-minute paperwork. At the Four [...]

>>> Jim McGreevey was apparently a very Gay American, befriending his fellow Americans over and over, up and down the NJ Turnpike: Dude, why on Earth would you want anyone to, like, know this? [NY Post]
>>> Really sweet, thoughtful David Carr piece about one of the Inky’s best and the uncertain future of newspapers: [...]

>>> Seriously: When are we gonna give Found Magazine honorary Philadelphian status? They’re here enough. Tonight, witness the craziness of shit people leave on the sidewalk as the Brothers Rothbart reveal their latest finds. Afterwards, quiz Kickball League impresario Steven Blodbath as he and Dryw Scully spin the hitz. At The Khyber. 9:30pm.
>>> Johnny Brenda’s [...]

Flickr: Italian Market Fest + Sears Block Party + No Libs Houserockin’

>>> As you read this, we here at Philebrity are working furiously on our latest venture, The Philebrity Reader, a gorgeous, hi-tech piece of junk mail that you will never be able to live without once you start getting it. Think of it as the Philebrity that only YOU read. Check the link to peep [...]

We’re hearing that hard copies (how quaint!) of this are being thumbtacked up at bulletin boards all over the station. And then Mother Hen Nessa Foreman dutifully comes along and tears them down. How China/Google is that?
Previously: Oh Brutha, Where Art Thou?

Terry has on Leonard Cohen today. We could not be more psyched. In fact, we’re putting off our plan to go out and buy armloads of handguns — in 40 minutes or less! — and settle some motherfuggin’ scores until Fresh Air is over. We’re guessing many of the city’s criminal-entrepreneur class will be [...]

And, if you want to buy two or three or more guns at one time, not to worry. Come on down!
In my case, just 40 minutes elapsed from the time I walked into Lou’s Pawn Shop 69th Street in Upper Darby to when I walked out with not one, but two, handguns.I could have bought [...]

The Three Degrees, circa nineteen seventy-coke-and-leather, with their classic, “Dirty Old Man.” Ladies, don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An investor group led by two well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers for up to $600 million, a source close to the matter said on Monday. [...] After suffering through years of declining advertising revenue and flagging circulation, the titles [...]