>>> Man, what will we all do when the ICA’s “Locally Localized Gravity” show expires? Just don’t think about it now. Tonight’s Plastic Little/Sweatheart show is way sold out, but the Daydreamer Magazine Launch Party is free and open to public. What’s Daydreamer? We’ve yet to see the finished product, but it feels part ‘zine […]

It feels like it’s been a good long time that a new electronic pop band came around that you could really, you know, live with. We’re talking about bands like Air or Stereolab here, bands whose very approach to electronic music worked because of their own inherent, unoppressive humanism. Well, pump up the stereo, because […]

Well, it seems that the local overbite-funk-rock scene is still in a tizzy about Lexie Lerro’s wrap-up of the Philly Car Share Philly Soundclash Contest last week. Since Friday, the hate mail has been pouring in ‚Äî ostensibly because Lexie had the raw nerve to, uh, suggest that most bands who compete for cash and […]

After the jump, our toughest poll yet.

SEPTA is bored. They’ve decided that it’s less important to hire adequate drivers, clean trains, buses & stations, or (gasp!) dispatch trains and buses on time, and more important to go after party promoters.
They’re so bored and feel as if they’re doing such a great job that SEPTA COPS (!) were sent to Fluid Nightclub […]

How it took us this long to get around to Norristown’s own Jimmy Smith, we may never know.

>>> For the first time since they went up in 1896, the eight bronze sculptures by Alexander Milne Calder‚Äôs on City Hall‚Äôs tower are getting a good scrub. ‘Cos Lord knows the place is about as dirty as it gets. [MediaNewswire]
>>> Why, what’s this, you say - a World Trade Center right here on Delaware […]

Film insiders are snickering after the Motion Picture Association of America refused to certify a poster for the new film “Pride” - about an African-American swim team - because they were prudish about the actors in their Speedos.
“They actually accused the film company of digitally enhancing actor Evan Ross (r.) [son of Diana Ross],” laughs […]

So………..I heard from someone in the know that the [PICK A LOCAL LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE’S SLACKJAWED WEBSITE] redesign has been deemed a disaster by the powers that be to the tune of about half a million dollars. It was supposed to be [SOME DUDE]’s chance to prove that he could do something without [SOME OTHER DUDE]’s […]

Philadelphia Weekly responds to the city’s second most uninteresting mayoral candidate the only way you can: A long stare in which you pretend you are listening.
Chaka Fattah likes to say he acts on faith. But when it comes to consensus building, longtime friend Curtis Jones Jr. describes him as someone who can identify ‚Äúwho‚Äôs peanut […]

Jens Lekman: “I Saw Her In The Anti-War Demonstration” [mp3]
[Photo credit: the8rgrl]

We absolutely heart Scharpling & Wurster, the comedy duo you’ve been hearing since forever on WFMU, quite possibly the only radio station of its kind in the known world. So we got psyched when we got a promo of The Art Of The Slap, their new triple-disc of radio shenanigans. The Scharpling & Wurster style […]

i saw this and realized it was a scam halfway through reading this stuff. a month later saturday, i noticed a check that i didnt write for 160 bucks was missing through my account. i googled the name it was written to, plus it was like check 300403012103 and what person writes a check like […]

“MURDER”
Philadelphia Casting is casting for the new Reality Series, “MURDER” produced by SPIKE TV/ Bunim-Murray (Real World, Road Rules, Simple Life, etc).
[…]”Murder” is an innovative reality-style series premiering on Spike TV. The series profiles some of the most difficult and complex homicide cases ever to be solved by our nation’s finest detectives. While many […]

From our friends at the Popped! Festival:
POPPED! announces tickets on-sale NOW
for Saturday, April 14th 2007
@ The Starlight Ball, room
with
Dr. Dog ¬? Spinto Band ¬? Bardo Pond ¬? Illinois
On sale at: Satelitte Cafe on 50th and Baltimore Avenue
The Marvelous on 40th and Walnut Street
AKA Records on 2nd & Market Street
In related Dr. Dog news, the […]

THE POLICE
MAKE LONG-AWAITED RETURN TO THE PHILADELPHIA AREA!
2 SHOWS TO GO ON SALE ON
THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD
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Citizen’s Bank Park
Thursday, July 19
On sale March 3rd @ 10am at ComcastTIX.com, 1-800-298-4200 or Wachovia Center box office and
LiveNation.com
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Hersheypark Stadium
Friday, July 20
On sale March 3rd @ 10am at Ticketmaster .com, 215-336-2000, all Ticketmaster locations, Hersheypark Stadium box office and […]

Many of you do not believe he exists, but for Philebrity co-founder Benny Philebrity, it all just got way real, and way awesome. On Saturday, we welcomed into the world one Ella Farrell, and yay, it was good. Our most heartfelt and warm wishes go out to both the Farrell and Gorsuch families at this […]

In case you missed the debut of the Inquirer Express, it was on the back page of the Sports section, the only part of the Sunday Inky that we wouldn‚Äôt roll eyes at reading. Described as ‚Äúthe most convenient way to get your news,‚Äù the Express is like a compromise, in that it says to […]

>>> Ladies of the city, you won’t have Andrew Hohns to kick around with that ol’ fake phone number anymore. He’ll be too busy making the most loathed Penn kids (Class of 2028) with fellow alum Leah Popowich. On the plus side, they scored pretty high on Gawker’s rate-a-patrician-marriage thing. [Gawker]
>>> Note to the Ladies […]