Sotheby’s announced Monday, September 24, that a circa 1755 Philadelphia mahogany tilt-top piecrust tea table valued at between $2 million and $6 million will be a highlight of its Americana Week sales in January.
AntiquesAndTheArts: Somewhere, Someone Wants This

>>> What does it take to get in and take a few snaps of Bono tonight as he accepts the Liberty Medal? Other than a strong sense of irony, it’ll also take a blood sample, prostate exam and 1000-word essay on why you loved Bush the senior so much more. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration. [...]

>>> This is like a convention of people who better not try to take credit for the new M.I.A. album: Diplo and Switch with new Mad Decent signings from Baltimore, Blaqstarr. Show was originally supposed to be at Starlight Ballroom, but now it’s not: FIND IT. Top three Philebrity office guesses: 1) Agnew’s bedroom; 2) [...]

What does a trio of dapper Italian gents who play cards at Bardascino Park in Bella Vista need? Coffee, lots of it, and the attention of every dog-walking female that walks by. Every morning, afternoon, and evening, you’ll find the cluster of crude cuties with lascivious grins and harmless banter outside of Infusion amongst their [...]

By rights, the whole freak folk new weird Amerifishtronica thing should be wrapping up any minute now — and it probably is. Lavender Diamond’s next album is supposed to be all danceparty, Golden Ball are morphing into a Moog-weilding krautrock ensemble before our very eyes, and shit, not for nothing, Devendra Banhart has already progressed [...]

Finding the truth in Oscar de la Hoya’s saucy cross-dressing photo scandal is a lot like the tight, black fishnet-onesie he’s wearing in most of the pics- there’s holes everywhere. When the photos showed up on X17 last week, Milana Dravnel, the brooklynite stripper who snapped the saucy pics at Philly’s Ritz-Carlton, has changed her [...]

If a business is underneath I-95, can you really expect it to not be shady? Just like any business operating below the El, the same applies for Port Fishington’s own Shadow World. Which is why any protest we hear regarding Trapeze, a swingers club with a name that’s not so secret, is an exercise in [...]

Black quarterbacks have to deal with different things than white quarterbacks. If you don’t think that’s true than you are naïve. [...] I bet Fran Tarkenton, Steve Young, Jake Plummer, and Doug Flutie have never been told by a member of any racial consciousness organization that they don’t play the quarterback position white enough.

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>>> Clips We Love has a clip of a couple of dudes who sit around and deconstruct the nuances of the latest R. Kelly album, “Double Up” like it’s their job.
>>> Local Color has a profile peice that appeared in the Wall Street Journal about a group of inner-city Strawberry Mansion residents who tend to [...]

Pardon us for not noticing earlier the deep, abididing genius of West Chester native Jonathan Lee Riches, currently doing federal time in Salters, SC for identity theft. But that’s not why we’re writing about him today; rather, since his incarceration, Riches has become something of a web phenom for filing technicolor lawsuits against everyone from [...]

>>>Fine, we’ll get an intern on it straight away. It’s “Green” issue time at PW, where they tell people to stop reading to conserve shuffle through all of the pamphlets they picked up at GreenFest and make a paper out of it. Is this the sustainable edition, now made with 100% recycled ideas? So legit. [...]

We bet whoever decked out this Thompson St. abode (click to enlarge) was 80 or 7. It’s the same difference, really. The spider in the window is always a nice touch. But your plants are way too alive. What the ev, we love that people still do this. Get thee to a dolla store immediately [...]

>>> If you don’t love Common, there’s got to be something wrong with you. He plays the Electric Factory tonight with Q-Tip and, according to this personalized message for YOU, Philadelphia, plenty of special guests. Official afterparty at Silk City, by the way.
>>> We’re torn: That “You Got The Money Maker” song by Rilo Kiley [...]

Amount of time doled out to local man convicted of slashing pogo-stick-ing youth’s throat: 4-10 years
Annual economic impact of arts and culture groups in Philadelphia, according to a new report from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance: $1.3 billion
Expected annual attendance at the PA Convention Center circa 2014: 410,000
Number of Phillies games left in regular season [...]

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Areas in which the Japanese are unfuckwithable: Electronic pets, monster-conjuring, insane youth culture and group sounds. What are these “group sounds,” you ask? Why, that’s the name of the genre of music that has persisted in Japan since the ’60s, wherein young men dress as Beatles and make screaming, howling old-time rock ‘n’ roll that [...]

>>> Collateral News revisits the racial tensions crystallizing around the case of the Jena 6. They investigate how an incident like this has come to pass. And, they conclude, that the U.S. must confront its historically racist past to truly move forward. Tune in and get informed!
>>> Shadow World kicks it with local Kensington residents [...]

It’s one thing to vote in a best-of-Philly poll when it’s actually one that’s produced and monitored by actual Philadelphians. (We can count PhillyMag in this because, at the very least, they know a few.) But it’s entirely another when a giant corporation — such as, say, FOX — shits out a BOP because somewhere, [...]

In what universe don’t Art Institute kids get their full tuition’s worth? The big project this semester: Designing vests for the homeless, proving that enrolling over at 16th and Chestnut really is the best way to prepare for the upcoming season of Project Runway. Although you kids should be careful when repeating the whole “Make [...]

This time last week, anti-casino troops around the city were gearing up for what promised to be one of the more raucous showdowns of the Sugarhouse debate: A City Council hearing of legislation on Wednesday that, if approved, would finally give Sugarhouse the zoning it needed to begin constuction on its hotly debated Delaware Ave. [...]