Or the man or woman, or both, mixed, it don’t really matter, just know that It Will Happen. And why not? Tonight’s the night, after all.

Sorry we dropped the ball (pun definitely intended) on not giving you the party listings tonight, but seriously folks, do you really need another place to go besides [...]

For those not in the know, the Miltonian gang is hell into comics. The way we see it, sequential art is pretty much the youngest of all the arts, younger than painting by a few thousand years, the novel by a few hundred, and around the same age as film. The Graphic Novel was arguably [...]

I’m sure some reading this can still remember the way commerce used to be when they were growing up – clean, modernist, comfortable, smart, and cool. In our area, there are still a few remaining vestiges of beautiful, untouched, old-growth shopping – such as the Cherry Hill Mall Macy’s entrance, and the Neiman Marcus at [...]

ARIES: Victoria of boisdejasmin.com writes about one of the many chemical experiments in history that has proved useful in a manner so far removed from its original intent that it can only be called a happy accident: “The discovery of the first synthetic musks is a by product of research on explosives. In 1888, Albert [...]

Last night at Johnny Brenda’s. Thanks, as always, to Woodshop Films FRIENDS OF MADI
DISTEFANO AND BRAT PRODUCTIONS.

Well, as promised, here’s the answers to the five questions we — that is, your favorite hometeam Fort Saint Davids, said that we’d answer. Ready when you are!

1. mkcrltn wrote: “remember when M.I.A. said her new song was call ‚ÄúBIRD FLU‚Äù because ‚ÄúTHIS BEAT GON KILL EVERYONE!!‚Äù (this was back [...]

This is where we were going to review the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show because — wait, how did we get a ticket? Because thanks to a magic wand we’re Philebrity for a week, duh! Anywhoo, we were going to review the show — it was good, yeah it was good — [...]

Ladies and gentleman, a warm round of applause for Espers own dark prince of the Heavy Session, Uncle Hammy. Here’s his Top-Everything of 2006. Roll ‘em out, dawg:

Albums:
Joanna Newsom – Ys. Not a drop of empty hype.
MV/EE with the Bummer Road – Green Blues. Unreal LP from heroes.
Comets on Fire – Avatar. Gods of [...]

Well not exactly stumped for content, per say, but some of our people actually have jobs, you know, and the two artists interviews we’re cobbling together are going kinda slow, because, well, artists are slow responders. Pesky artists! But we know we’ve got to give you something, because Renee the Secretary has been [...]

It’s okay, JoJo, we’ve got this one.
Or do we? Trade secret here: Fort Saint Davids and the whole Miltonian gang were never much for listmakers. Half the time when they were asking us for the best of ‘96 we were giving them gems from ‘95. We just don’t keep track. Were [...]

For those of you not Miltonically Oriented, Ask Crooks is basically what passes for an “advice column” around our parts. Substitute “The Totally Crushing Brutal Truth” for “Advice” and you’re a little closer to what we’re looking at here. Moving our beanbags, brushed-steel lobster buckets full of chipped ice and glass bottles Coca-Cola, [...]

We interrupt these Daily Miltonian holiday shenanigans to let you know some white-hot breaking blogrock news: At 9AM, it was announced that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are playing this Thursday night, December 28, at Johnny Brenda’s. The show’s a benefit for Brat Productions, and you can buy tickets here. The opening act is Gang, [...]

Okay, so normally over at the Miltonian we don’t talk about stuff that’s like, well, actually happening in the newspapers and whatnot but we figure what the hell, we’re Philebrity now so we have to do stuff like tell you what’s on the cover of the current issue of the Philadelphia Weekly and, uh, talk [...]

Now don’t know about the rest of y’all, but your old pal Fort Saint Davids always takes the holidays kinda hard. There’s a few consolations: Wawa Eggnog, the Jon Solomon 24-Hour Holiday Radio Show, the Cherry Hill Mall Food Court, and Christmas Eve at the 700 Club. See, FSD has been doing the [...]

New Year’s Preparation Edition
1. Getting the string band together to practice the Mummer’s Strut
2. Save up enough change to purchase something plastic and sparkly
from a street vendor on the big night.
3. Make an end of ‘06 Mix CD.
4. Schedule multiple Midnight Kissing Partners. Just in case one of
them backs out moments before.
5. Resolutions – it’s [...]

Oh man I know, like is he totally insane or something? I just think the whole thing is just…oh hello? Hello? Are we rolling? Alex, compose yourself! Well…ahem. Hi. Hi there. Allow us to introduce ourselves, we are Fort Saint Davids , and we will be interrupting your [...]

Philebrity will be posting on a limited schedule through Tuesday, January 2. However, check back frequently throughout the week for year-end madness, weekend picks, and shortly, seriously one of the sweetest Xmas Holiday Guest Editors ever. You guys are gonna get over on him like a substitute teacher. By the way, have a happy and [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Face it: Christmas falling on a Monday makes everything straight-up weird; we’re going to venture out and say that as far as going out goes, it might just be the worst way for the holiday to fall, because if you think that you’re not gonna be a comatose party mess by the time [...]

It took us forever to figure out what he was doing with his hands.

Each year, Philly plays host to what are now two long-standing holiday traditions: DJ Robert Drake’s 12-hour Christmas Eve broadcast on WXPN, and DJ Jon Solomon’s marathon 24-hour Christmas Day show on WPRB. This year will be Drake’s 13th annual broadcast, and Solomon’s 19th. Both shows are a testament to human endurance ‚Äî to staying [...]