>>> It is ALL OUT SURF GUITAR WAR in the ‘delph tonight, as Dick Dale takes on the North Star Bar, and Los Straitjackets check in at World Cafe Live. Call us crazy, but this may be one bout the guys in the wrestling masks won’t win. Dick’s a killer.
>>> Attn. UArts/1026 folks and American […]

From the Philadelphia Gay News email list:
This morning in Philadelphia City Council, Councilman Darrell Clark introduced legislation to evict the Boy Scouts from their headquarters on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; the land that the building sits on is leased from and owned by The City of Philadelphia. In part, this legislation came about because of […]

We knew it, felt it, started living it the second we heard it: Meg Baird’s Dear Companion might be the best acoustic-guitar-and-voice album since Nick Drake’s Pink Moon. And unlike lots of times when you hear a record you love and want to hide it away in your room, we’ve been dying for this thing […]

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We‘ve been busy over here reenacting Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” video. The stripping part was easy, but get real with us, coke monsters: There isn’t enough eyeliner in the world. So what if our weekend isn’t gonna beat Fire Crotch Lohan’s, we certainly gave it our best tequila shots. Fire away.

>>> Cheap Dates is back with their 4th episode. Join our paramours Mark and Audrey as they visit The Edgar Allen Poe House, have drinks at Siam Lotus, eat heartily at Pura Vida, and have a special super secret behind-the-scenes FIRST LOOK at the newly rehabbed Silk City Diner! Check it out!
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Cost of a New Jersey man’s custom-fit carbon fiber prosthetic leg. Shit is so tricked out we almost want one. But not the one that’s currently at the bottom of the Delaware River: $65,000
Weight of black bear caught and tranquilized in Upper Macungie Township. We almost want a bear, too, but we’ll just order him […]

>>> JERRY MONDESIRE IS PISSED. Ooh, this is gonna be good. And by good, we mean the NAACP is gonna cockblock Michael-Mike Nutter’s Stop N Frisk® before it even gets wings. Why? Oh, just because of some story about cops allegedly freaking out on an entire family in Mantua last week. Now, some may see […]

WXPN Philly Local Show Pays Tribute to 40th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
WHAT: Helen Leicht, will be presenting the WXPN PHILLY LOCAL LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND live, in full Sgt. Pepper period costumes, at World Cafe Live. The show will be broadcast […]

Billy Joel: “The Stranger” [mp3]
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>>> As we mentioned yesterday, Client at the North Star. Teh hot.
>>> In further dancerock developments — and what a revoltin’ development thith isth — Gang opens up for Radio Four (pictured), which is only shocking when you consider that Radio Four still exists. Hiyo! At Johnny Brenda’s.

>>> What would you say if I told you that some people don’t have to pay tax when they go shopping in Philly? Is that something you might be interested in? Yes? Too bad, it’s only for travellers. There’s gotta be a way around this. [Easier]
>>> And yes, dawgs, it can suck sometimes to be […]

Anyone who went to the Flight of The Conchords screening a few weeks back knows this already: New Zealander Jemaine Clement is a white-hot sex symbol, the James Bond of wacked-out Napoleon Dynamite dudes. He’s got a new romantic comedy coming out in a few weeks called Eagle Vs. Shark — not to be confused […]

· It ain’t easy being Tommy Up: Suckers got something to say here about everything from Tommy Sunshine to DJ Deejay to how much it sucks to have to pay for drinks and thangs. [Maneo]
· Who THE FUCK in Bella Vista has a pet rooster? And if you are reading this… can we party with […]

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>>> Philebrity Music has a live in-studio performance by The Shapes and Sizes playing their song, “Can’t stop that (sinking) feeling.” Outtasight.
>>> Shadow World is back with their 12th episode spotlighting Jay, an airbrush artist.
>>> MTV.FU gives a high-five to British keyboarding Goths The Horrors.
>>> And today’s Noontime Nugget grabs lunch at the falafel cart.
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From yesterday’s tesimony:
He was “telling me to keep it down, that he had neighbors,” the New Jersey woman, now 36, told a Common Pleas jury. “He was very angry. He was yelling.”
OK, well, maybe that was a sore spot for some reason. But what about this?
She then sensed herself having sex with him. They were […]

At 17.7 percent, the state has the highest percentage of overweight kids under age 5, according to a 2004 federal survey. It also has a large population of black and Latino youths, who have been found likelier to be overweight than white kids.
Dr. Fred Jacobs, who heads the state Department of Health and Senior Services, […]