>>> The big Man Man interview in summary: Fake names, self-conscious art school answers, and more refusal to receive the memos regarding moustaches or Tom Waits. [Pitchfork]
>>> Every time Paul Green School of Rock gets a bit of national press, our hearts thrill. Then we remember that the music he’s teaching these poor kids (Zappa, [...]

The $1M HOB received last week is on top of $4M they received last year bringing the total to an astonishing $5M they are getting gratis from the taxpayers of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
We don’t know about you guys, but all we know is, there had better be some fucking fantastic Rusted Root shows at [...]

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to acknowledge a landmark: The miraculous birth and almost instantaneous death of Philly’s first, but certainly not last, completely online news cycle. If you haven’t been keeping score at home, go here first to get up to speed. We’ll wait. Sike! A coupla hours ago Philadelphia Magazine posted [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Fancy yourself a part of the graf-literati and hit up up the book release party for Freight Train Graffiti, this cool new book about… freight train graffiti! Brave the onslaught of dudes who still wear clothes quite a bit larger than their frames require (confidential to graff dudes: what is this obsession with size?) [...]

So, we apparently ruffled some feathers last week when we mentioned these inconvenient facts. Too bad. Frankly, the outta-whack salary structure — and the threat to lay off five engineers, one with 19 years experience, despite a $27 million operating budget, much of it ballooning upwards to float a growing executive bureaucracy — is only [...]

Well, gang, it’s about that time: Philebrity Fit Club is now rolling right along, and there’s lots to report. The big story is that Artie is giving Coach a hell of a run for his money (last week, Coach was totally rulin’ the roost), and friggin’ Gouda Girl’s weight actually went UP! Meanwhile, Jersey Dan [...]

A CASINO IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD?
Foxwoods casino wants to build a casino/mega-plex at Columbus Blvd and Reed Street. Passyunk Square is in the 1 mile impact zone. Access to the casino will be on Reed, Tasker and Dickinson Streets.
Answer these questions and you decide.
DO YOU WANT?
Yes No
  A new I-95 ramp on Front [...]

Whatever happened to Cody ChestnuTT, anyway? Why didn’t he become the new Marvin Gaye like we thought he would? Was it the two capital “T”s at the end? Sometimes that’s all it takes.

Washington, DC – Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that two former staffers for Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) violated several provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). CREW also sent a copy of the complaint to the U.S. Attorney for [...]

yo philebrity, while you were out getting your menergy on, i was out nerding it up in your back yard. NLNA held a meeting for bridgeman’s view tower (the 66 story, 900 ft tower proposed for del ave & poplar), the accounts of which i thought you might (for lack of a better word) enjoy [...]

Yikes! Don’t tell Vito Spatafore!
ActionNews: “Honestly, Boss, When I Wrote That Headline, I Had NO Idea!”

>>>Sack attack update: >>Parking Authority to raise tix fines: Too many people eating a $20 ticket ‘cuz it’s less traumatic than getting consumer raped in the parking garages. Solution: Make fines less easily digestible. Everyone open your window and stick your head in the general direction of the PPA and repeat after me, shouting [...]

>>> Inky to Daily Candy: “Alright, tell you what, we’ll give you one blowjob piece on the house to start you off. The rest, you’re gonna have to pay for.” [Inky]
>>> And Larry Brown, get over here, ya big lug! No, seriously: GET OVER HERE. [DN]
>>> Snopes.com reveals email circulating all over the country alleging [...]

Gov. Ed Rendell announced a $6.3 million investment in state agriculture and tourism projects on Thursday, including a $1 million grant awarded to House of Blues Philadelphia.
The grant, from the state’s First Industries Fund, will be used by House of Blues to buy machinery and equipment for the music-and-dining establishment planned for 15th and Chestnut [...]

>>> Good God, we suck. This Paradise At Key West thing has been ramping up for months now, and we still haven’t been. Why? No good reason, we can tell you that. Having already put up stakes in the city’s most obscure gay disco, programming nights with all kinds of deep Italo/sleaze/etc., Ron Morelli and [...]

We’ve been making a lot of noise about the telecom behemoths — including our own beloved Comcast — conniving to turn the Wild West of the Internets into stoopid point-n-click pay-per-view TV — and we’re talkin’ WB and UPN-style lame, not HBO or Comedy Central-style edgy. There basic argument is: Hey, we laid the pipe [...]

Frankie’s gonna be at the eye-talian market fest on Saturday. Frankie says relax.

>>>Pot calls kettle: Ron Jeremy (pictured left, in, um, faster times) to host the Pimp N’ Ho Ball at Tiki Bob’s, will judge “the most pimped-out dude and hoochiest-looking mama.” But wait, how will the aspiring pimps and ho’s get past the door guy with this dress code? [Gross]
>>> Stop yer sobbin now: Terry [...]

LastWeekIWentToPhiladelphiaButItWasClosed: De-Gorgeous!

The Nicetown man said he had been sleeping peacefully in the couple’s bed Tuesday night when his wife pounced on him without warning, grabbed his groin, dug her manicured fingernails in and flayed him, leaving his gore-slicked gonads dangling much lower than normal.
“She didn’t use no weapon - this was just sheer brute strength and [...]