…Carl Singley for Mayor, please no. I remember Carl from my college days at Temple University. He was the dean of the law school in 1987. I was a journalism undergrad working as a reporter/editor for the Temple News.
[...]
If Singley didn’t like a law student, for whatever reason, he put a letter in that student’s [...]

>>> After all these years, it still might be true: The Minutemen might be the common thread running through both music we love and music we hate. From nearly all spazzy American post-hardcore on through to all that boring-as-hell Chicago indie jazz nonsense and (God help us) Primus, many have walked D Boon and Co.’s [...]

Last week PW’s Kia Gregory hurled a racial stink bomb into the Daily News‘ bunker. Today, the DN’s Simone Weichselbaum tossed a snark grenade back:
Of course, her one-sided diatribe failed to mention that a black man runs the DN or that one of the so-called racist crime reporters is actually a brown-skinned Brooklynite. PC just [...]

Every once in a while, we hear from this dude called Scud Nelson ‚Äî he’s one of our “crazy regulars,” a la Non D. Plume or Collin Flatt, those kind of people who saunter up to the bar every once in a while and drop such a load of B.S. on you that, by the [...]

Today we direct you to Radio Times. The first hour is with Robert Baer, the ex-CIA guy who wrote the book that became Syriana, starring George Clooney as, um, him. Or there’s always the gripping second hour of Radio Times, devoted to the discussion of how the overuse of college adjuncts is undermining both academia [...]

If we could go back through time, to the 1920s, segregation forced Blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma to use the services of Black doctors, lawyers and merchants, because of necessity. Blacks created a separate thriving community steeped in nation building. They did this by reciprocating with each other, thus creating a thriving community, which became known [...]

Ahoy, beardos! Things are promising to get mighty weird down at The TLA tomorrow night, as The Fiery Furnaces ‚Äî only Chicago’s greatest bro-and-sis post-VU high concept art rock band, doncha know ‚Äî share the stage with our own Man Man, they of the trademark moustache and obviously encyclopedic Tom Waits/Beefheart collection. So the Cap’n [...]

Gary Walker, 48, a waiter from Prospect Park, told PGN he was mugged as he left a bar during two recent visits to Center City.
The first incident occurred about 2:15 a.m. May 18 on the 200 block of South Fawn Street.
Walker said five youths pushed him up against a chain-link fence and stole about $230. [...]

Witness “Philadelphia’s greatest band,” LeCompt, salt the Earth (and much of Northeast Philly, we suspect) with this five-minute WHO MEDLEY. Note: There are not one but two ponytails in this band. Proceed with rocking caution. A YouTube classic in the making.

CALIFORNIA investment banker Bradford M. Freeman, a big-time supporter and friend of President Bush, has denied an online report that a call girl [NOT pictured, right] went into a drug-induced fit earlier this month during a fundraising dinner he held for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann.
The report appeared, without naming Freeman as the party’s host, [...]

More than a thousand skateboarders celebrated [Go Skateboarding Day] in Philadelphia last year by peacefully romping through their forbidden paradise, LOVE Park.
The turnout was smaller this year than last, but hundreds still rolled toward the sacred concrete grounds looking for a good time.
But they found no love in LOVE Park. In fact, a scuffle with [...]

>>> Have you, also, been a little freaked out by seeing fireworks suddenly for sale all over the friggin’ place? When you’re eyein’ up those bottle rockets and coal-snakes, do you wonder, is it a trap? Tut-tut, silly Pennsylvanian! Or: Bitch, you know it is! Those fireworks, PA-resident, are NOT for YOU! [Inky]
>>> Gawker gets [...]

Philly’s Olympic bid goes mayor-less
City touts itself without Street, the only city leader missing among field of 5
Staff and wire reports
Our competition was tough.
And Philly was the only city that didn’t send its mayor.
So it sucks that he didn’t go, and we probably blew a major opportunity or something, but c’mon, tell the truth: You [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Good God, it’s been a dog’s age since we heard from the city’s premiere gay rap group, V.I.P. They’re on a bill at the First Unitarian Church with Limp Wrist and a bunch of other crust bands that you will definitely not be seeing. In fact, we’re kind of afraid for the boys. To [...]

“We think the best argument against Rick Santorum is Rick Santorum,” said Ray Murphy, a leader of the city’s progressive liberal movement and head of PAS. “His positions on a million different issues really deeply impacts Philadelphians. We wanted to visualize that in a personal way in showing Rick Santorum and why he is so [...]

Fresh Air: Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothin’ Left To Lose

Pitchfork: Fishtown In The House, Yo!
Mr. Lif: Mo’ Mega, Mo’ Mega, Mo’ Mega!
City Paper: Turns Out There Ain’t No Fish In Fishtown, No Germans In Germantown, Either

The Inquirer’s Jeff Shields reported in December that the [Gaming] Board was moving out of its Conshohocken offices because of a conflict of interest with its landlord. Seven months later the Board is still in its offices at 1100 E. Hector St. The Board’s landlord, Preferred Real Estate Investments is run by Mike O’Neill, [...]

Over the course of a decades-spanning career, sculptor and performance artist John Giglio has created works that seem to be exploded surreal 3-D cartoons whose mission is to demonstrate the weird and wonderful connections between body, buildings and psychic space. Di Chirico is another reference in works that are playful and ominous with bodies wrapped [...]

We’re still waiting for Philly Mag or the Inky to acknowledge what The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, FOX, ABC News Tonight, NPR, The New Yorker, and (as of last night) the BBC has already figured out: That Swarthmore College has become a global beacon of lefty youth activism. And not just the [...]