You’re already saying “No, no!” But friends, Hollywood is saying… yes.
From Sports Illustrated:
“Invincible is the most fun during its open-tryout sequence. The scene is stolen by a fat guy in a green cape — he is both completely ridiculous and, at the same time, a strangely plausible representation of a mid-1970s Eagles fan. He flies [...]

Former owner Jim Thorpe is about to unveil his plans for a new venue and the GSP owners are not pleased. He’s partnered up with Joe Rufo (owner of Brownies 23 East) on this venture. The game plan is to create a spot very similar to the old Grape Street Pub.
Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
Previously: [...]

>>> Was there not enough weekend in your weekend? Poor baby. Catch up on deez while everybody else is catching up on z’s, as Low Budget and Brendan Bring’em spin at Trago’s, 38 S. 19th Street.
>>> Brohang alert: Jeff Zeigler of Relay spins at Johnny Brenda’s.
>>> Monday night TV pick: Catch the 8 o’clock [...]

Barefoot in his bedroom in Medford, this 17-year-old, ruddy-faced teen reaches more than 45,000 Harry Potter fans each week with MuggleCast.com, an hourlong podcast in which Sims and six cohosts chat about theories and story lines surrounding author J.K. Rowlings’ boy wizard.
The venture has gained them fame, a little fortune, and a handful of free [...]

Flickr: DJ Deejay’s Immediate Slideshow
Flickr: Overcast Indie Pop On Hancock Street
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Maybe it’s a testament to how shitty the late-summer movie crop is, maybe it’s just the fact that people will do anything ‚Äî anything ‚Äî to see Marky Mark in tight pants, maybe it’s just dumb luck, but Invincible topped the weekend’s box office scores. We’ve yet to take the film in, but we expect [...]

This is one of the TV spots for the 10th Annual Fringe Festival by our good friends at Woodshop Films. The Fringe kicks off this Friday; stay tuned for info later today about our night-before-Labor-Day blowout party at the Fringe Cabaret this Sunday.

Back at Air Jamaica, the indifferent slow-mo mooks said they would get us out “sometime today.”
Seriously, dude.
DN: Byko’s Honeymoon Killer

>>> This just in from the email machine: Delilah’s has just been voted “Gentlemen’s Club of the Year 2006” at the 14th Annual Gentlemen’s Club Expo in Las Vegas. Just close your eyes for a second and imagine the scene out there. You can almost taste the Rumplemintz on your chin.
>>> Awaiting confirmation: Has Club [...]

Brian Tierney, who became owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer after Knight Ridder sold it last year, noticed that a popular item on the paper’s website has been a video of Mentos mints causing a 2-litre bottle of Diet Coke to explode into the air. ‚ÄúWe should do more of that,‚Äù he says.
In other news, the [...]

Fellow music fans:
After about a decade of life on Philadelphia’s South Street, Spaceboy Music has decided to retire and close its doors in late-September. We will miss the excitement when bands like Notwist, Godspeed You Black Emperer, Sigur Ros, Belle and Sebastian, Espers, RJD2, Sunn))), Jack Rose and Radiohead were new and we could [...]

FRIDAY:
>>>We already own this weekend, but we’ll be fair and give you alternatives, sort of like Progressive Insurance does, except you are so on your own in an emergency. NorthBowl is the here and now and we are mere steps away. Let’s start a league up in this wonderous establishment. Who’s with us? Who’s against? [...]

Your days were numbered weeks ago, now they near the negative, as suhhhmmertime take its last stand and prepares to extricate itself from your sweaty hold. The better of you have solidified yourselves with conditioned air and connected the back of your skulls to the blogosphere with a USB. There’s always a handful of outdoorsy [...]

>>> Did anybody see that crazy interview with Justin Timberlake where he totally railed against the tool singer that sings that tool Ford pickup truck song or whateverthefuck from American Idol (as well as all things Idol)? He was basically lamenting what most thinking people already know: That this American Idol shit is basically rat [...]

Mark from The Poverty Jet Set boldly proves that, honestly, there was never really a good time to go on the Hooters party boat.
Flickr: Ghost Boat

>>> Good god, if tonight had somehow happened in 1996 and not 2006, we would have never stopped creaming our jeans. It would have been a creamergency! But get this: In 2006, it at least feels like a creamergency, as Ian Svenonius and Calvin Johnson (pictured, meow!) overtake Driz Horse at the Khyber. If [...]

Hey everybody! It’s a clip from Grey’s Anatomy with that BC Camplight song by BC Camplight playing in the background! Did you know that BC Camplight are playing the Series 1021 Rock ‘n’ Roll Block Party Thing in Northern Liberties this Saturday with Human Television and Adam Arcuragi?
Oh, you didn’t? Now you do!

‚ÄúAll the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.”
— Shakespeare, ‘As You Like It’
Inscription, Shakespeare Memorial, 20th & The Parkway
After the jump, our most mysterious (and speculated upon) letter-writer finally comes clean. Totally required reading.

>>> Remember when war used to not be about guarding civilians who work for Halliburton in a cosmic clusterfuck of apocalyptic proportions? Neither do we. Check out a preview screening of The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton’s verit?© look at three different tours of duty in Iraq. The movie’s getting good advance buzz, and the screening [...]

After the jump, David Chadwick of Golden Ball learns in words and pictures that you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.