>>> The big story/show tonight has got to be Artists For Heat aka HUGOPALOOZA, the controversial benefit concert at the Trocadero we reported on a few weeks back, featuring among others, Public Enemy and The Roots. We’ll have some video, etc. on that for ya on that one tomorrow, as we just got some clips [...]

This just in over the transom:
As you may have heard, the venue formerly known as the Tweeter Center is getting a new name!
While there were several serious contenders, I am happy to tell you that Susquehanna Bank, whose new Headquarters are located in the new Ferry building on the Camden waterfront, will be the [...]

Two items of note today in the casino mess, briefly. First, NoLibs anti-casino activist Debbie King points out a glaring omission on the Inky’s part. She writes in an open email:
Today’s Inquirer published a letter to the editor from Paul Girvan, managing director of New Orleans’ The Innovation Group stating that the waterfront is a [...]

>>>The NY Times writes an entire article so that they can basically say that Santogold (pictured) lives in Brooklyn now, which, um, we know you know. Also, check the tiny paragraph they saved for Miz Blank for anything you don’t know. [NYT]
>>>Oh Death does an interview with the boys from Designer Drugs. Now, the [...]

OK, you all know what Making Time is, right? Good. Here’s what’s special about this one, coming up this Friday at Pure: The Teenagers, this buzz bin band from France, are playing and it’s looking like it’s one of those things where you like KNOW they’ll be the video they play over the end credits [...]

Who knew that you could get banned from calling in on PCN? Who knew that anyone called in at all on PCN? And if we may put words in Fumo’s mouth, “Heavens to Murgatroid!”

Artist Austin Lee’s submission artblog’s “Kisses To Nutter” campaign. [via One Culture]

SOUTH PHILLY: The Review pulls together all known details of PhillyLive! aka ComcastTown aka A Lil’ Something For The Fannypackers, but somehow issues no opinions whatsoever. Fence-sitting hasn’t been this good in Souf Filly since Uncle Alberto sat atop da greasy pole at the 9th Street Festival. [SouthPhillyReview]
NORTHERN LIBERTIES: YO BRAHS MARK GEOFF IS IN [...]

I have been following your blog since I transferred to Drexel last year. I noticed that you like to prod at a fellow named John Sharkey [pictured] from clockcleaner. I didn’t how right you were about what an asshole he is until my recent interaction with him at Johnny Brenda’s last weekend. I was mildy [...]

>>> How did John Street assess his first day on the job as an adjunct prof at Temple? Well, let’s just say he’s a little too easily wowed after babysitting the patronage drones that populate the highways and byways at City Hall:
“On the first day, three were late out of 56,” he said, noting [...]

For a complete list of what’s going on at Foggy Notion tonight, check here. Or, if you’d rather, check out our listings.

When we received a copy of the one-month-in-the-making new crime plan from Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey (pictured), we were reminded of a familiar saying here around the office: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Which is always, every time, without fail, followed by a call to our trusted friend and attorney, Conor [...]

Full disclosure: David Grazian is appearing at our TLA Philebrity Screening Series….but that doesn’t mean he isn’t deserving of some tough love. When you write a tome depicting the culture of Swanky Bubbles and Dirty Frank’s, we take notice.
If you spend half a decade researching “urban nightlife” in Old City for your next novel, you’d [...]

”I believe with great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President. I have been paying close attention to him since the Democratic convention in 2004. I feel that he is more a statesman than a politician. He was against the war when it was an unpopular position (and Hillary was for the war [...]

The Giants and the Eagles justify each others’ existence. Rooting for the Eagles is not the same without the Giants to kick around, and vice versa. Hey, these guys are just like me, only the opposite. There’s somebody in Newark who looks just like you (only backwards and upside down) who is pulling for the [...]

No surprise, it’s Amorosi on the stand this time. Does the word “funky” spread around like the flu over there at Tierney Towers? Can “funky” get a day off? Not that we aren’t thrilled to know that Lenny Kravitz is still “mighty decent.” We are. Thrilled. But no, we’re not gonna go your way.
Inky: We [...]

Our friend Kendra Gaeta takes it all during the First Person Arts Story Slam Competition. Read about it on Uwishunu.

Tonight, Philebrity is proud to host our monthly Foggy Notion party at Silk City, which is dedicated to showcasing new bands, hanging with old friends, playing records and getting drunk on school nights. There’s a handful of cool things happening at the party tonight, so we’ve prepared a handy timeline for the evening’s activities. Like [...]

Why would we go to a Joan Shepp basement sale? After an article in the latest W that hipped us to designer Isabel Marant, who sells in a way select few boutiques in the U.S. The only one in Philly that carries pieces from her collection? Shepp to it. The sale starts today and runs [...]

>>>Say, can we get new cancer treatment equipment that weighs 110 tons and have the Mummers serenade its arrival at UPenn? Can we then send the brigades back to practice holes for the remainder of the year? [KYW]
>>>Will the Eagles ever see the $800,000 that T.O. still owes them? Hey, dudes? Take the loss. [PhillyBurbs]
>>>What [...]