Who’s that casting devious stares in your direction? It matters not if they are properly masked. Now go bag it, bag it up…

It took a while for us to drink the Kool-Aid on Pitchfork favorite of the moment A Place To Bury Strangers — not because we don’t love their update of the Jesus & Mary Chain’s garage-pop scree, but just because, you know, we despise rock critics, think the ‘Fork is every bit as suspect as [...]

Bob Finkel’s homage to the bicyclists of the 19123.

· South Street’s Miss Tootsie’s RBL, hot off of a win for MyFoxPhilly’s Best Soul Food Restaurant, will be ringing in November with 3 days of events: On the 2nd, they’ll be having a party to celebrate the win; on the 3rd, they’ll be celebrating their one year anniversary with Jill Scott, Monique, Musiq Soulchild [...]

>>> City Hall jobs: Like the movie Brazil, but with perks. Take, for instance, the hully gully realm of City-issued cell phones, recently audited by City Controller Alan Butkovitz. “The audit, in a sampling of cell phone usage by city departments, also found instances of phones that could not be located and a phone that [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Philadelphia lawyers will trade their briefcases for saxophones, bass guitars and pianos when the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division hosts the first-ever Lawyerpalooza — a concert featuring bands made up of Philadelphia lawyers of all ages — on Thursday, Oct. 25 at Kildare’s at 2nd and South streets, beginning [...]

>>> Why on Earth is this party on a Wednesday? Shing-A-Ling Au Go-Go seems like it’s looking to get that Vampyros Lesbos vibe back from Silk City of yore with DJ Papa Deux Fois spinning 60s funky Euro shimmy while select gals of the Peek-A-Boo Revue provide the “au go-go” portion, and our man Nico [...]

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Oh, come on in and sit right down, Mr. Santorum, we thought you’d never get here! Now why don’t you fix yourself some punch and take a load off? What’s that, you say?
“There’s a denial of this problem. You see academics and Muslim student associations that want to shut down discussion of the fact that [...]

I get the feeling that most casual basketball fans in Philadelphia know less about the Sixers now than they have in a long while. But I can help you get to internet-know your new look Sixers with a classically irreverent mix of witticisms and YouTube videos.

After the jump, Michael Fichman re-introduces you to [...]

Seller: Allen “A.I.” Iverson
Address: Chateau Lane, Villanova, PA; Right down the street from Mansion on the Lake Lane. Convenient access to East Egg.
Asking Price:$6,300,000— roughly one-third of Mr. Iverson’s yearly salary.
Size: 14,000 square feet, 5 bedrooms, master closet accomodating 500 pairs of shoes.
Details: Beautiful Main Line home nestled on 3.5 acres near the Blue [...]

>>> It’s around this time that your friends start bugging/begging you to vote for their band/DJ night/bar/massage parlor in that free-for-all CP poll. Sure, you can vote as many times as want, but with those choices for Local Band, it’s gonna be a pain to write in your pick over and over.
>>> Eattapes has [...]

And you know what? So do we.

Call ‘em flying rodents and compare our pigeon scene to “The Birds” movie all you want, haters. For every pack of you, there’s always a Bird Man. But in this case, he’s found a Bird Woman , and together they live in what is known as the “Pigeon Palace” on Hartel Avenue, where they’ve got [...]

>>> Jesus, we can’t think of a bigger public relations disaster since, oh, right, that whole Ugliest City thing. But the Comcast/BitTorrent juggernaut continues to make Philly’s biggest employer of office drones shit the bed in new and fabulous ways. Witness: In addition to choking, throttling, squeezing your P2P pipes, the company is also doing [...]

Who needs more fun with abbreviation? Good on your hardened soul, I’ll pour you another. VIMBY, Videos In My BackYard, is a cute-stupid abbr. that we better not hear you say aloud. It sounds like you’re dissing Gumby’s slutty cousin, no? The mini-film site is only crashing your BY if it’s one of the seventeen [...]

>>> Ecstatic Peace! band and Sonic Youth buddies The Magik Markers come to The Vacuum behind their new Lee Ranaldo-produced Boss. Opening are labelmates Tall Firs, Australia’s Electric Jellyfish, and locals Ospreys. It’s about the only game in town tonight, and it’s a perfect fit for this hot and windy post-apocalyptic weather. 1729 Tilghman [...]

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From today’s Team Comcast memo:
Maintaining the Health of Our Network
In a message to all Comcasters, Mitch Bowling, SVP & GM, Comcast Online, provides the facts regarding media reports that inaccurately characterize Comcast’s efforts to manage our network for the benefit of all of our customers, “…Comcast does not block access to any Web site [...]

When SEPTA’s not busy stamping out our souls like so many spent cigarettes, they do things like bring a South Korean company to South Philly to make futuristic railcars, whipping up lots of jobs in the process:
The lease … is for 20 years, and the plant will house Rotem’s U.S. headquarters and employ [...]