House of Blues Entertainment Inc. said it will open its planned live-music venue in Philadelphia late next summer.

The venue will cover five floors and include a 500-seat music hall, 300-seat restaurant, retail store and a private club called the Foundation Room.
“There were a number of things going for [Philadelphia],” said Liam Thornton, senior vice president […]

>>> If you like to laugh at people in advertising ‚Äî seriously, and who doesn’t ‚Äî you may do no better than this “we-just-reinvented-the-wheel” press release that Kanter International sent out about… wait for it… Daffy’s. [PRNewsire]
>>> And then, if you are really bored, you could go clown Red Tettemer’s magnetic poetry page. Hey, I […]

Simon Joyner: “I Will Find You” [mp3]
[Photo credit: Ronin47]

One man can only take so much. And the Posi Guy, God love him, has taken a lot: Trying to put a silver lining on our sports teams, our insane talk radio and the like for the last year and so on, well, folks, you know the deal: It can take a toll. Even on […]

Ah, yes! Halloween in Philadelphia. Given our very well-documented predeliction to parade around each New Year’s Day in the world’s most bizarre form of blackface, is it any wonder that we’re also, like, totally Boner City when it comes to celebrating All Hallow’s Eve? No, it isn’t. And the amount of Halloween parties we’ve come […]

Would you welcome them please, Berlin/Dayton/Philly’s finest, also known as “The Two-Man Who,” they are, without a doubt, Swearing At Motorists. And they play the North Star tonight.

>>> More signs that Philly really is on the move! We’re finally on a terrorist hit list, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by City Paper. That the bulletin also comes on the heels of yet another Pony Pants tour diary is all the more terrifying. [TheClog]
>>> As Inky and DN prepare for strike, we […]

From the mailbag:
HOLY SHIT !!!!!!! A HOLLOWEEN LOFT PARTY WITH DAFT PUNK !!!!
** SATURDAY OCTOBER 28TH, 2006
@ The Klip Collective Studios
(an amazing loft space overlooking the entire city!!!)
201 N, BROAD ST. 8TH FLOOR (@Broad and Race Sts.)
Philadelphia, PA
WITH A SPECIAL GUEST 2AM PERFORMANCE BY….
DAFT PUNK !!!!!!!!!!

A special live set coming all the way from FRANCE […]

New Jersey school district cancels its Halloween parades because of concerns tied to the Amish school shootings.
Gloucester Township has called off eight outside Halloween parades for elementary schools because school superintendent Thomas Seddon believes the traditional pageants can’t be safely guarded.

In a recent letter sent home to parents, Seddon wrote, “since the October 2nd shooting […]

Big Star: “Big Black Car” [mp3]
[Photo credit: Collection of eskepe]

>>> It’s cold out there, but to true cold fetishists like us ‚Äî “COLDER! COLDER!” ‚Äî it simply isn’t cold enough. Luckily, there’s the Taste Of Iceland Film Fest at the Ritz at the Bourse. Screaming Masterpiece, a doc about the rather impressive icelandic music scene over the last bunch of years, kicks it off, […]

We don’t quite know what to make of this: Two stories by Josh Cornfield in today’s Metro, both of which would lead one to believe, if one were to draw conclusions from related stories in the same newspaper on the same day, that the paper has launched a program to keep everybody apprised of the […]

I mean, now that the coast is clear, who’s gonna hop the PATCO and break the cherry, as it were?
¬? V.I.P. and their own mirror reflections?
¬? Butch Cordora and whoever he can drug?
¬? Lynne Abraham and another man?
¬? Sue Serio and… oh, we just made that joke.
¬? Dave P and Sean Agnew?
Oh, but we kid. […]

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Wait, they have a dentist up there?

Okay, so first things first: as Rufus pointed out, there were no wall-sized, full-color come shots projected onto the wall of Courtroom 1701 today. This was, as you can imagine, a major bummer, both for Rufus and for me, an ex-phone-sex operator who got out of bed at 5 a.m. and dragged herself to the […]

Part of a series about conceptual artist Ellie Brown’s Lover’s Books.
RomanBlog: It’s An Ellie Brown Kind Of Town

>>> We know what you were thinking: “Hey, where’s Philadelphia’s bi-annual black eye? You know, the shitty Philly news item that makes us seem like fucking inbred slobs with Stallone-y speech impediments and gets passed around all over the AP Wire?” Yeah, yeah, we know. Ladies and gentlemen, your Bi-Annual Philly Black Eye (Second Edition) […]

RockClubBigWig: bands who we hate:
VivSavage1984: yes, names!
RockClubBigWig: The Bones Royal, they’re like these 16 year old kids who are nice but way too “professional.” They’re sixteen and they have a publicist.
RockClubBigWig: This band Trouble Everyday from Philadelphia…they’ve already been trashed on the Internet enough
RockClubBigWig: but they are dicks
RockClubBigWig: They are unprofessional, which would be kind […]

So it doesn’t bother me that Joe Vento buys his beef from South America. Indeed, if I were a cheesesteak eater, I’d consider it a plus. No, what gives me indigestion is the hypocrisy. I don’t see any signs in Geno’s windows saying “We Proudly Sell Uruguayan Beef.” After all, it’s grass-fed, hormone-free beef–why not […]