Last week, we noticed that a possible labor strike was heating up over at Brian Tierney’s “new, improved” PNI; at issue were loads of cuts that’d surely send some folks packin’, and the ones who stayed might also find things like sick time and work loads cut and made larger, respectively. With just a few [...]

After the jump, we got the skinny.

How has this never been a Nug before? Oh, that’s right: Too obvious.

>>> Pop pulls gun on peewee footbal coach: “If those friggin’ brats don’t make the spread, this entire locker room is gonna be coated in TMX Elmo fur.” And he doesn’t mean the good kind. [700Level]
>>> The Flamster discovers that you really can grind out a cush union existence on one flimsy men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-hey-not-so-fast premise after [...]

Forget about a six-foot fence around Independence Hall. The public spoke, and park officials listened, and Friday they announced a new security plan for Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
While they’re not elaborating much on what they are doing only to say it does involve new technological measures, National Parks Service Director Mary Bomar [...]

Later, I wondered. What if it was Mr. Huge’s career that tanked — he’s a writer, too — and he got a job as, say, a dishwasher? I asked myself: Am I as career-conscious as Rose? To paraphrase the immortal words of the rapper Jay-Z: If Mr. Huge couldn’t get me finer things like all [...]

Through the reaches of time, we’d like to extend a hand back to the ad wizards that came up with this one. You were truly ahead of your time. Little did you know that one day, there would be a space on the Internet where a very special website could say this all day, every [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Record release mania this weekend! First, there’s The Trolleyvox at the North Star with BC Camplight and The Novenas (see Talk The Talk, below); and not to be outdone, Unlikely Cowboy whoops it up at the Johnny Brenda’s. Give ‘em all some love: Making a record is a pain in the ass.
>>> As giveawayed, [...]

Andrew Chalfen (pictured at far right) was laying the groundwork for this city’s grand indie-rock kingdom when you were in short pants, bub, and he still kinda looks like he’s 17. Not bad, right? In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Chalfen was the brains behind the late, great Wishniaks ‚Äî one of the bands [...]

Yes. At the Starlight Ballroom tonight. And for once, we’re just gonna let the music do the talking:
Art Brut: “Formed A Band” [mp3]
Art Brut: “Good Weekend” [mp3]
Art Brut: “Emily Kane” [mp3]
Art Brut: “My Little Brother” [mp3]
And, I mean, come on:
Spinto Band: “Oh Mandy” [mp3]
Spinto Band: “Crack The Whip” [mp3]
Spinto Band: “Trust Vs. Mistrust” [mp3]
The Captain’s [...]

Today sees a new feature here at the Philebs, called “Friday’s Child.” We’re gonna leave it open as our own little refuge for defending the indefensible, celebrating the uncelebratable and generally taking some poor soul, hated by everybody, and saying, “Hey, yeah, sure he’s an asshole. WE KNOW. ENOUGH.” Today’s honoree? Muhammad Shaukat. Muhammad gave [...]

For all the Flickr action in Philly we see on trawls each day for Daily Affirmation fodder, it’s rare that we come across someone with a photoblog as well-thought-out and just plain compelling as that of Jaime Alvarez. Jaime’s a Cranbrook grad living in Northern Liberties, and he has that same kind of Mark Borthwick/Miranda [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, The Bristol Stomp.

With 12 days until labor contracts are to expire, negotiators for Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C. and the unions representing 2,000 workers at The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News are still wrestling over key issues.
Pressmen and company negotiators remain divided on the crucial question of how many workers are needed to staff the company’s printing presses [...]

PHILADELPHIA — The city that prides itself as having a burgeoning music scene is also making a more dubious name for itself — the Bermuda Triangle of gear.
The second rock band since March to have a van full of its gear, instruments and personal belongings stolen from a Comfort Inn parking lot was victimized earlier [...]

>>> Engineers conclude that the “swaying ramp” at the Linc is in fact “safe”; it’s just that, you know, Eagles fans are so fat and pathetic that sometimes it just feels like everything around them is getting wavy. You know, kind of like metaphysical stink lines. [ActionNews]
>>> Mural Arts Program funds local artist who makes [...]

West Chester lawyer Marc Bragg was amassing a real estate empire, building casinos and a condo development, and buying and selling land as if he were Donald Trump.
None of it was exactly real - until it became the subject of a lawsuit he filed this year in Chester County Court. Bragg assembled his properties on [...]

>>> People are really starting to go apeshit about this Upstairs At Sal’s place. And by that, we mean, people who work at Upstairs At Sal’s are really starting to go apeshit about this Upstairs At Sal’s place. Oh, we kid, rampant emailers, we kid. Tonight, the Sal’s kids come back with their signature night, [...]

Anywhoo, we recently spoke to Dina and she told us that she lived in the Poconos. Naturally we asked her how the foliage was looking, which was when she tipped us off to the POCONOS FALL FOLIAGE HOTLINE. Think we’re kidding? Call 570-421-5565 and give a listen. I know, right?
We can vouch for this. We [...]

Okay, so it isn’t that we’re not feeling Sixth District Congressional Candidate Lois Murphy on policy or anything, because she’s straight up Dem, yo: Wants Homeland Security to not be a cruel, Kafka-esque joke, she thinks (duh) some ethics reforms are in order on The Hill, wants people to get health care when they need [...]