Like peanut butter and jelly or vodka and soda, these two Philly.com stories seriously belong together. They ought to run side by side, interwined with soft blue links for all time. Sure, one’s a wire story, but that shouldn’t keep their love from conquering all. Lonely snorers? “My ex-wife was a light sleeper and I [...]

The excellent new video by Wilmington, DE’s excellent Sky Drops. [hat tip to PhillyGirlAboutTown]

Fresh off a rare 14-medal pillaging of the Great American Beer Festival by Philly-area beers (somehow Harrisburg counts) comes word of our own great big drinkfest. Philly Beer Week will hit town March 7 to 16, uniting boozy brethen from all corners of the world in our little corner of the world. Joe Sixpack, Monk’s, [...]

After the jump, Technologicology takes a long, hard look at Brian Tierney‘s paperless paper of the future without paper!

>>> We’d like to congratulate Philebrity Mummer Stripper Alumna Stoya (pictured) on her inking a deal with porn studio Digital Playground. It’s not often we see a quote like this about one of our own in print — “She smokes, designs clothes and is ready to do anal right out of the gate” — but [...]

Promise #314: You can stop sending us this now. It’s like the new RickRoll or something.

>>> What happens when indie-pop dudes go to the Dark Side? Ask San Francisco’s Sic Alps, whose two main members used to be in the Slumberland bands The Ropers and Henry’s Dress. These days they’re doing the basement blues thing, sorta like The Black Keys gone Siltbreeze. Some songs’ve got a garage-y stomp, and some [...]

Download this wallpaper: [1280x1024] Since the end of last week, news has been trickling out of Comcast’s apparent blocking of file sharing services such as BitTorrent from its Internet users. You may have seen the stories here and there, and like many of our readers, you may very well not care. Depending on where you [...]

The Paoli-raised Lovely Bones novelist, who was just back in town last week for a Free Library appearance, has incurred the fiery wrath of The New York Times‘ Lee Siegel. He rips her new The Almost Moon to shreds, calling it an “insult to the lumber industry,” among other things. Check it: This novel is [...]

Starfuckers, get thee to the Main Line: Peter Jackson and cast/crew just started six weeks of shooting in Malvern on his adaptation of The Lovely Bones. Who knows, you might see Susan Sarandon at Frazer Zoo. But Malvern won’t have Ryan Gosling to kick around — he’s been replaced at the last minute by Mark [...]

Maybe just because it’s Monday and we know you need something, anything to make you feel like there’s a God (there is, and he cannot believe how much you’ve let him down); or maybe it’s because we know the whole city needs a salve right now from the whole “ugliest city” slag (we are, but [...]

>>> As fliers get more animated and kaleidoscopic and just plain hyper every day, maybe it’s time for something simpler, like this here notice (at right) for, of all things, a Gospel Rap Contest. Between the age/time/other restrictions (“Must Include Jesus Or God Or The Word Of God”!) and the synergy of the Bible passage [...]

Justice, live at the Trocadero last night, in a moment of stolen awesomeness.

For a brief spell around 1AM last night, there was… NO WEATHER. Did you feel it? Or was it just… love?

· Hot tip: More than 40 restuarants are participating in this Thursday’s “Taste Of Philadelphia” event, and tickets are only 15 bucks — if you pick ‘em up before the day of the event. Then, they go to $30, and suddenly, eating 28 different kinds of crab balls and things wrapped in bacon doesn’t really [...]

Ineffectuality, thy name is Sylvester Johnson. In one fell swoop, the man on whose watch we became Murderdelphia heaves sigh after sigh to KYW’s Tony Hanson, whines about how Stop-N-Frisk® is gonna be a mess, yet says he doesn’t really care about his legacy as a top cop and then says he’s gonna vote for [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Yo, real talk: Autumn ’07 is WORK. As in EXHAUSTING. The Rocktober Show Overload is now in full swing, so much so that there’s just general confusion about what is going on, with whom, where at, and when for. (Never mind the “why,” you’ll sleep when you’re dead.) But let us prevent whatever [...]

We mentioned this earlier in the week, but we have confirmation and screen times for ya: About A Son director/our friend/rad dood AJ Schnack will be in town tonight, as today his much-heralded documentary about Kurt Cobain debuts in Philly. Immediately following the 7:35 screening at Ritz At The Bourse, we’ll be leading a Q&A [...]

We’ve long been fans of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction, the locally based tees-accessories-prints line with the long name and fun blog. They had what we likened to a Space 1026 vibe that knew what deodorant was, and today, they posted on their website something of a bombshell, which explained that their non-stink [...]

OR… We just couldn’t decide.