>>> Series 1021 Movie Night! How To Get Ahead In Advertising. Check out what we said about this minor masterpiece a few days ago, then come hang outside with us on this, the only night this week it’s not supposed to rain. Movie Night was a blast a few weeks ago, and this one promises [...]

Viva La Bam and Jackass star Bam Margera went on a tear during his weekly Sirius Satellite Radio show, storming out of the studio after a profane rant on Monday.
(Which means Bam ran away from home. His studio is in his mansion near West Chester.) [...]
Margera was ticked about the case against his uncle Vincent [...]

>>> Well, if that don’t beat all: After a solid month of hand-wringing and speculation over “worst album ever” status, The Roots rock a 7.7 and much-vaunted “Recommended” status on the ‘Fork. Game Theory, you’re a slippery lil’ bitch, that’s for sure. [Pitchfork]
>>> Everything you ever wanted to know about about the YROCK relaunch on [...]

And his classic “I Don’t Like Rock ‘n’ Roll.” We don’t know where you are, Schooly, but we hope you’re well. And hey: We don’t really like rock ‘n’ roll, either.

Choosey radio choosers know that Mad-Brand (sorry, that’s Madeline Brand for all you squares) knows what is up with Favelaclash and has decided to go straight to the source: Our own Diplo. The Dip will opine about all things Dip, as well as tell the yon teenagers about his new steez, Mad Decent Radio, which [...]

Remember all the fuss a few months back about Yearly Kos, the convention for liberal bloggers that was held out in Vegas. Well, today there’s a lively discussion over at the Daily Kos website about plans for the 2007 event, which will be announced within a month.
Guess which city is getting a lot of hype. [...]

We bet Michael Nutter didn’t see this one coming. After he got Council to pass the bill that would establish the ban back in June, he hightailed it out of there to campaign full-time. But fast forward to now, and John Street is getting pissy about the particulars ‚Äî namely, how the bill does not [...]

>>> God, are you like us? Has seven days of non-stop overcast Clientele weather beaten you into a kind of batty submission? That would be enough, but also: There has been nothing fun/special to do all week because we are in weird pre-autumn zone and exactly one week from now, the world will again be [...]

Last week, when we were on Fakation, trying to relax, we caught up on a bit of reading. When we’d already gone through all available copies of In Touch Weekly and the well-thumbed paperback of I Am Thinking Of My Darling, we eventually turned to a tome massive in scope and facts, Philadelphia: A 300-Year [...]

Confession time: We had actually wanted the new Comets On Fire record for The Philebrity Player ‚Äî wanted to put it on there very badly in fact ‚Äî but we didn’t feel like dealing with SubPop. You know the deal: SubPop are like major indie starmakers, regard themselves as such, and some days, you know, [...]

Free Spinto Band on Wednesday at the World Cafe. They go on at 10pm. The
rub? Its Yrock and you gotta sign up for it.

http://www.publicradiomail.org/wxpn/events/yrock_resurrection/details.tcl
Related: DrownedInSound: Mand-NO-Lin!

>>> Sean Agnew has a podcast and he is not afraid to use it. [R5Productions]
>>> Buzz on this new A-Sides record is already ramping up like we don’t even know what. Granted, their drummer’s our webmaster, so we’re a little biased, but still: Every time dude comes in the office, he’s like, “Oh, yeah, this [...]

For about four years straight my father called into Philly talk radio station WIP to blast former Eagles defensive end (and first round bust) Mike Mamula. Even after games they won, my father would talk earnestly and logically for about 40 seconds and then, without fail, would say something along the lines of “But where [...]

The state legislator’s son who was kidnapped Saturday night allegedly had been making a delivery – possibly of cocaine – with his girlfriend when the two were surrounded by gunmen and forced into a van, police said yesterday.
Shamari Taylor, the 26-year-old son of State Rep. John D. Myers (D., Phila.), has not been seen since [...]

How the fuck is it that it’s 2006 and Plastic Little are not absolutely huge? Since they started in 2000, they’ve gone from joke band to being among the most self-aware emcees in all of hip-hop right now, and, not for nothing, you can go through a whole list of people who might not have [...]

Yesterday we dropped the news that longtime punk haunt Club 218 on South Street was most likely shutting down amidst vast canyons of non-knowledge about why that was. Interestingly, a whole bunch of readers weighed in. First there was this guy:
The club is closed because the owner of the building is fighting with the owners [...]

It’s crunch time, people. Summer is about to jump back over the moon and you’ve got, well, not a lot to show for it. We know how you feel. Why, just the other day, somebody was saying to us, “Don’t fret, Little Philebrity ‚Äî don’t you know that Fall ‘06 is going to be the [...]

Your guess is as good as ours. The scene with Bushie and John Street is priceless, though.

“The cicada killers are like the biggest guy in the bar,” Holliday said. “They won’t bother you unless you walk up and smash them in the face.” And that doesn’t happen much.
“They’re so big, almost nothing bothers them.”
Just whatever you do, make sure you build a Talbot’s, a Starbucks and a golf course nearby. They’ll [...]