Why are we losing people? After all, Center City looks a hell of a lot better than it did when John Travolta was racing down Market Street, almost running over Mummers, trying like hell to find his hooker friend before she fell victim to John Lithgow’s scary-ass watch.
The answer: It’s not about Center City.
It’s the […]

>>> Riverfront dwellers statewide bracing for deadly chocolate milk tsunami: Forecast calls for continued rage and ruin. [Inky]
>>> Reason # 8,963 why suburbia sucks dead donkey: Cherry Hill Mall just paid $1.5 million for a liquor license. Round here we call that grand theft extortion by the Nanny State and we play that shit under […]

The worst-case scenario, if we continue on our current business-as-usual course, is a five-degree Fahrenheit increase in global warming by the end of the century, resulting in an 80-foot increase in sea level, which would doom almost all of Florida and a whole lot more.
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In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast […]

>>> This week’s Philebrity Players, The Asteroid #4, take on a stripped-down set at everybody’s favorite Wednesday night brohang at The Standard Tap. Also on the bill: The newly re-formulated Cobbs, who used to be Mad Action, who used to be Ty Cobb, who used to be Trip 66 (we think?). 9pm, free.
>>> As mentioned […]

The scuttlebutt is everywhere and nowhere at the same time ‚Äî not so much in the Daily News, but all over that bastion of reason and thought, 610 WIP. And it all bodes even more darkly than usual: Tonight, at the NBA Draft, the Sixers could finally wind up trading Allen Iverson. Anyone could see […]

A flood warning is in effect for the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia until Friday morning.
KYW’s Hadas Kuznits reports that the Philadelphia Fire Department was conducting “precautionary” evacuations of about a dozen homes along Main Street and Shurs Lane in Manayunk [NOT pictured, above right, it’s actually Wilkes-Barre post-Agnes].
KYW’s Robin Culverwell reports that torrents […]

Oh, man, the ol’ Cap’n is laying down a BLITZKREIG OF FUN this week, and like Van the Man always said, “It’s too late to stop now!” So how’s about a little We Are Scientists action on the freedog vibe? These blogrock sensations have been tearing up the scene for months now, and tonight sees […]

The grassy knoll across the river and near the Tweeter will serve as ground zero for this year’s three-day triangulation of Triple-A eclecticism. N’awlins legend Allen Toussaint has just been added to a very respectable line-up that includes The New York Dolls (who used to be lesbians), MMJ’s Jim James (who […]

Cinderella, taking a break to show their non-ballad side.

Asked why it took so long for anyone in Congress to take a stand against Bush’s “stay the course” nonstrategy, Murtha replies, “We just hoped it would work out. It wasn’t working out, and I think that was the key. There kept being a lot of rhetoric and not real progress.
“I think the country is […]

BALTIMORE - “If we have been guilty of delay in expressing these sentiments, we are sorry. We have been engaged in a difficult balancing of concerns for the rights of our employee, the presumption of innocence, the rights of his spouse, and the legitimate public concern about allegations of spousal abuse by a Phillies ballplayer […]

[Brian] Tierney himself has professed to be a fan of the Daily News. “I like that paper for a lot of reasons,” Tierney told PW shortly after the acquisition. “The Daily News knows what it is. In comparison, the Inquirer is like that friend who keeps showing up with a different haircut every time you […]

>>> Spinto Band (pictured) continue to rock Jolly Ole England; countdown begins for the day when “Oh Mandy” is released over there, becomes UK indie disco anthem and Spintos become new Pete Dohertys, one and all, with a K-Moss on each arm. Go get ‘em, lads! [NME]
>>> Zoe Strauss gets a nod in the otherwise […]

And as always, it’s the IT guys who take the hit:
The indictment, which identifies only Luchko and Eister by name, alleges that the two men:
• Systematically destroyed e- mails sent to or received from Fumo and Arnao;
‚Ä¢ Created and implemented schedules to run computer programs that erased any trace of deleted electronic files from computer […]

Viv Pickle creates the World’s Largest Handbag; Daily Candy readers experience citywide, simultaneous O (the first for all concerned). Film at 11.

>>> As mentioned in Cap’n Freedog yesterday, Fiery Furnaces (pictured) and Man Man at The TLA. This one’s gonna be especially fun, as Philebrity just gave away a staggering 25 pairs of tickets. This is what is commonly referred to in the biz as “filling the venue with gorgeous, loose-moral’ed drunkards.” No, seriously, look it […]

On one hand, it’s hard to believe that The Asteroid #4 have been around for a decade; on the other, oh, what a long, strange trip it’s been. For the uninitiated: A4 debuted as a kind of My Bloody Valentine tribute band, complete with racks and racks of pedals and a light show, at a […]

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From the comments section of today’s Inky story on the last lynching in Coatesville, circa 1911:
Coatesville was as bigoted as any similarly small city in Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s, so what happened there in 1911 is no more surprising to me than it would have been had it happened in the south.
The schools […]

If you mess with Supey, you better mess right.
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