For a while, it was party-for-rent spot; before that it was nothing; and before that, who knows. But as of last week 941 N. Front Street had triumphantly morphed into the 941 Theater. Headed up in part by the Backseat Film Festival’s Doug Sakmann, the 941 played host to last week’s festival, but now that [...]

This right here is a truly magnificent piece of journalism:
PHILADELPHIA — A local school is angry about an underage rave party that’s being held inside the school.
Lu Ann Cahn and the NBC 10 Investigators went undercover to expose what happens when school lets out.
Inside a rave party, there are drugs and underage kids. Where’s the [...]

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· Great news for people who like NEWS ABOUT CRAB FRIES!
· The first ever Phoodie Challenge: Curry Eggs
· Where to eat wild boar whilst gettin’ drunk
· Rachael Ray’s fakeout
· London Grill’s multitasking brunch
· Saké bombs and our new wine column, It’s Vintastic!
· Plus a video check-in with the good folks at Greensgrow Farms
All this and [...]

Last week, we took note of the Unshackling of Michael Smerconish, and his subsequent romance with Barry Hussein, I mean, Barack Obama. (No idea how the whole Barry Hussein thing started, but it may be the new “Internets.” Sorry about that.) Anyway, today, The Big O (better?) requited Yon Michael’s advances by calling into Smerc’s [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy’s shots from last night’s Del The Funky Homosapien show at the North Star Bar.

>>>Yesterday, the Justice Department approved the merger of XM and Sirius satellite radio worth $5 billion. Hallelujah, shake dat booty, Howard Stern. Of course, monopoly is never that easy: now, Clear Channel is on its knees begging the FCC to restrict satellites’ often indecent, “cutting-edge” content. Good luck, but I have a feeling [...]

Truth: We’ve had a LOT of fun with this year’s TLA Philebrity Screening Series, and this week, it comes to an end with an explosion of vampires, lesbians and blood. Frankly, our final host with would have it no other way — join us this Thursday with Greg Weeks of the Espers and Alucarda. [Trailer [...]

Today the Nug looks back fondly on Philly/Delaware expats Zen Guerrilla.

Well, now that we’ve dealt with Johnny Doc (see post below, read in the the voice of Edward G. Robinson), it’s time to size up the other white meat in the State Senate election, Larry Farnese. When last we encountered Mr. Farnese, it would seem he was stone cold busted on PhillyBlog for passing off [...]

Now look here, see? I don’t care what nobody says, I didn’t rob that dago kid, see? Nobody did! What kinda world we living in where anytime some greaseball whose opponent I support gets robbed of a camera, some policy papers and internal poll data, I get blamed? No, that ain’t right, see? Chrissy DiCicco? [...]

>>> Puzzles The Giraffe (pictured), sadly, has died at the same age as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. When tapped for comment, his friend, a turtle who refused to be identified, said, “I was always telling him not to go and join that stupid club.” [Inky]
>>> Speaking of long-necked animals with a penchant [...]

We’re gonna start today off with a little good news, for once:
The number of registered Democrats in Pennsylvania has surged to over four million, thanks to a tight race for the party’s presidential nomination between senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
KYW, you are too kind. Because for real: It’s hard to imagine such a surge [...]

>>> For a Monday night, lots to choose from: Top on our list is Acid Mothers Temple at Johnny Brenda’s. Even if you stray from the psych scene, Acid Mothers are in that Led Zeppelin/anyone-can-get-into-this strata of being not just a band but a cultural artifact: The world’s most famous Japanese head music. (Sorry, Kitaro.) [...]

It’s got to be a strange time these days for Manayunk: What with so many of its transient post-college population flocking to Northern Liberties, thereby douche-ing up a different neighborhood, it’s also honing in on a new, less fratty Grape Street-free existence. (Who knew that the easiest way to get these people out of your [...]

“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” — Proverbs (ch. XVIII, v. 24)
And this is why we are endorsing V.I.P.’s Jonny Makeup in his run to be on the new MTV show, I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend. Yes, this is [...]

>>> The big news today, of course, if you haven’t heard, is The Roots’ Picnic on June 7 at Festival Pier with, holy shit, Gnarls Barkley, Deerhoof, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Santogold, Diplo, J*Davey and Esperanza. WOWZ. We took a long hard look at the Roots’ new album last week — we are uncautiously [...]

Controversial opinion: In 2008, rocking the French boating shirt with a red kerchief is an act of international bravery. Francophile tendencies are, sadly, at an all-time low, even with their awesome new president and all, plus, men’s fashion seems to deadlocked in an awful, risk-free zone where men are taught just to keep their heads [...]

Behold, lost footage of the Ark, and some dude, uh, “liquiding.”

>>> Attention iPhone users and lovers of other gadgetry: Philly.com has launched PhillyMobile.com, a lighter, “mobile” edition of their site which, as it happens, only looks slightly more 1996-ish than the real Philly.com. [PhillyMobile]
>>> And for the love of God, why is there no video footage of this that we can mash-up into some kind [...]