>>> If it’s Christmas, that must mean it’s time for another perfect, handmade idiotic controversy over some stupid frat boy bullshit gift item Urban Outfitters is selling. [Inky]
>>> Somebody pours water on the Inky, they all of a sudden get wise to the stolen-band-gear beat. [Inky]
>>> And then the cops wander into someone’s house in [...]

Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s upscale Rittenhouse Square neighborhood had a sticky start to Black Friday. Police said at least 16 stores had been vandalized by someone who glued the locks shut. But locksmiths fixed the problem quickly so there were minimal or no delays in opening for customers.
In our wildest punk rock fantasy, this was done by [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Woe betide the music fan looking for non-jam band music in all the usual haunts tonight. But it’s ok: Traditionally, jam bands own the holiday weekends, since they really are the tryptophan of the music world. They’re unchallenging, you don’t have to really pay attention, although if you do, you’ll be rewarded in the [...]

Well, so are we ‚Äî sort of. But due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we’re kind of at fake work. Hey, just like you! But check back later today for Weekend Picks and ‚Äî oh yes we did ‚Äî our first-ever online store thing!

>>> Listen, we’re not even gonna fuck around and act like we don’t have an agenda for you all this evening: The Fourth Annual Paper-Street Thanksgiving Eve Party at Transit tonight is going to be absolutely bonkers. Peep that flyer and know that this is THE spot to be tonight. We’re already getting word of [...]

If you’re a parent with teenage kids, you may assume when you drop them off at the movie theater they are there to watch a movie. But Lu Ann Cahn and the NBC 10 Investigators bring you a disturbing story about sex in the theater and it’s not on the movie screen.
NBC 10 started working [...]

“We are enormously pleased and we are very, very proud of our Phillies, and we are certainly proud of Ron Howard and his great achievements,” Street said in a Mayor’s Reception Room ceremony, making some wonder whether he was praising the film director, the former Eagles spokesman, or Ryan’s dad, also named Ron.
With Howard’s parents [...]

Holy shit. This is like the party that ate all the other parties and made a giant voltron party. Shit is like MasterCard; it’s everywhere you wanna be. Just LOOK at that flyer. Are you down? IT’S THE BIGGEST FUCKING DRINKING NIGHT OF THE YEAR, ‘SLICE, YOU BETTER BE! So you know what to do: [...]

WHYY PRESIDENT & CEO WILLIAM J. MARRAZZO TO LEAD
THE COMMITTEE TO KEEP EAKINS’ MASTERPIECE IN PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, PA (November 22, 2006) – The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced today that WHYY President & CEO William J. Marrazzo will convene and lead a committee of national cultural, civic and [...]

And so it comes to pass that Ted Beitchman throws down the cranky old men versus blogger guantlet.
From Dec./Jan. RealPhilly, Page 20:
Bunch’s blogosmear
“Thoughts while shaving” used to be the term that described just that: undocumented, unsupported ideas. Now they have been replaced by the content of blogs, and there is no one in town [...]

Biggest drinking night of the year, people.

Um, you go, girls.
CP: He’s An Old Man, Guys. It’s Just Not Right To Make Andy Rooney Freelance Like This.

Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia
Sector of Communications Workers of America TNG 10/CWA 38010 AFL-CIO, CLC
If They Did It: Here’s how Philadelphia Media Holdings would hire scabs
Nov. 21, 2006 Contact: Stu Bykofsky [REDACTED]
Philadelphia Media Holdings, the company that cries poverty while demanding devastating cuts from Guild [...]

>>> Still feeling yer oats from DEMSLIDE ‘06? Well, so is Vern Anastasio: He’s having a Democratic Victory toast at Fergie’s tonight at 6pm. Right after work. Right now. All Dem winners will be toasted, even the ones who only won because their last name wasn’t Santorum. Oh snap! Sansom St. between 12th and 13th.
>>> [...]

By now, you’ve no doubt read or heard about Richard Linklater’s film adaptation of Fast Food Nation, the Eric Schlosser book that gave way to what we estimate as thousands of politically charged grossouts and counting. (The movie’s playing right now at the Ritz at the Bourse, by the way.) And this week’s record on [...]

KerriLee: How That Domain Wasn’t Already Taken By A Porn Site, We’ll Never Know

A new era in Big Five basketball begins as former Penn Quakers coach Fran Dunphy takes his inaugural sideline march tonight for the first time as the Temple Owls kick off their b-ball season against the Kent State, uh, Protestors? Whatever. Doesn’t matter.
What is important is that for the first time in 20+ years the [...]

Alright, well, you knew it was only a matter of time before Thomas Eakins‘ The Gross Clinic ‚Äî lovingly photoshopped and re-photoshopped here for you at right ‚Äî got hyperspaced clusterfucked. I mean, it’s like mom’s cooking gravy in the kitchen and everyone fancies themselves a master chef, right? Right. So to recap thus far: [...]

Jay-Z caught live Saturday morning at the Electric Factory.

Showtime series Dexter–which we staple ourselves to every Sunday–hits cult-like status with this Craigslist Missed Connections post, a play on the latest episode where Dexter leaves this Missed Connection for a fellow serial killer, who left a decapitated Barbie doll in Dex’s freezer:

So when we came across this MC today, we thought OH NO, naw [...]