What, you say? Surely, this cannot be! It must be a joke! No, son, death is real…
A Michigan company has a licensing agreement with Major League Baseball to provide team themed caskets and urns, and the Philllies are among the first team products to be offered.
Eternal Image CEO Clint Mytych says the Phils caskets and [...]

After the jump, Caitlin Welge’s shots from Saturday night’s Making Time party with Crystal Castles at Transit.

OK, so, just thinking out loud here. Remember how we were supposed to be the first major american city to have a pink cotton candy cloud of WiFi raining down nodes of info all over us? Well, it is now a festering sore, and it is growing synonomous with the Great Philadelphia Choke, that awful [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy’s shots from Thursday night’s Holy Fuck/A Place To Bury Strangers show at Johnny Brenda’s, plus mp3s from the bands.

Who does Philebrity want to answer the phone in the White House at 3AM?
Why, it’s quite obvious, my friend: Gregory Isaacs.
FRIDAY:
>>> I’ve been sitting here for the last hour staring at the listings in the hopes that if I did that, your prognosis for shows and parties this weekend will somehow get better. No luck [...]

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.
The idea [...]

RECOMMENDED: In addition to loving movies about stealing things, we almost love, just as much, the double-crossin’, cheatin’ genre of films. And boasting an ensemble cast that includes Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams and, in an unlikely black comedic turn, Pierce Brosnan, Married Life looks like it has the goods. Set in Mad Men/Far [...]

With spring officially getting underway yesterday, we caught up with the good folks at Greensgrow Farms — one of the country’s premiere urban farms, located in Port Richmond — as they prepared for a new season.
Director: Steve Mohimani
Music courtesy: The Peekers/Park The Van Records
For more videos and other stuff on Philly food, check out [...]

Baseball stories just don’t get any more heartening than the one Phillies catcher Chris Coste has got. For a whopping 11 years, Coste toiled in minor league ball before getting called up in spring ‘06. As you can imagine, that kind of dues-paying — crappy hotels, no money, very little glory — can’t help but [...]

>>> Oh, ‘Bama! You just knew you weren’t gonna call into 610 WIP like a regular guy, say a thing a regular guy would say, and not get totally railroaded for saying your Nana is not so much with the blacks. Roll tape, please:
[...] the three words linger on the short loop that is cable [...]

>>> Big night, people, look alive! FIRST DAY OF SPRING! As we mentioned earlier, the Holy Fuck/A Place To Bury Strangers/Gildon Works show at Johnny Brenda’s could be the hugest, loudest thing happening in the city now that the 95 is fixed for now. (But will, Philebrity solemnly believes, crumble once again very soon. This [...]

In the world of patchouli-smelling and nugget-smoking noodle-dancers (hippies, that is…of both the genuine and pseudo variety) the Disco Biscuits are the derelict bastard-child – the dark and gritty element that offers contrast to a music scene full of unicorns, hula-hoops and fans that would, quite honestly, put a funnel to their ears to catch [...]

THX PHILA.
Um, you’re welcome?
[Via DrewOlanoff]

Hands up who wants to put down the lame old month of March like an old horse and GET THIS SPRING SHIT GOING ALREADY? My, that is a lot of you. You know what this collective fruster-ation sounds like? That teeth-grinding malaise that leads up to a deafening, nearly spiritual release? Hmm? It kind of [...]

>>> Well, fellow media wonks who read this blog while waiting for the other shoe to drop, we got some good news and some bad news:
A new comScore, study of the differences in online behavior among heavy, medium, light and non-newspaper readers showed that non-newspaper readers are likely to be younger, but are actually heavier [...]

Have Eddie Austin and Stevie B BROKEN UP? But what about AUTO SHOW? And what about AUTO SHOW PT. 2? And what about Turbostation at the Troc on March 28? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Court Rules That Geno’s “Speak English” Sign Aren’t Discriminatory, Just Absurdly Dickish

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We should have known something was up when we caught mad heat after Kelly White caught mad heat for daring to smirk in the face of one Penn sociologist’s magnum opus about how, duh, people put on airs when we go out at night. The resulting flap saw author David Grazian being pulled out of [...]

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike [...]