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>>> For too long, douchebags, cubicle jockeys, People From The Suburbs and the carpetbagging charlatans who cater to them have been allowed to run roughshod over Old City. The price we have had to pay, as citizens, has been almost too much to bear: Whole swaths of the neighborhood are more or less unavailable to [...]

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>>> If you can’t fly a kite then build a piñata, that’s what we always say. Actually, we never say that, but it’s got such zen simplicity that we may start to. Meanwhile, there’s a Piñata Making Workshop at Space 1026 this evening. Riddle: Do you build it around the candy, or is the candy [...]

For those of you that followed our PSA yesterday about the Boyd Theater on Chestnut, there’s some new news: First, on the heels of today’s rally, the Boyd got a bit of national press. The National Trust for Historic Preservation included the Boyd on its 2008 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Places. Meanwhile, it’s [...]

Better late than never! After the jump, Dan Murphy’s shots from last Friday’s Making Time 8th Anniversary with Cut Copy/Black Kids/Mobius Band at Pure, plus an mp3 from Cut Copy.

· Fans of t-shirts and music: WE CREATE CLOTHING is throwing a kick off party tonight at AKA Music to launch their new fashion line. Slingshot Dakota and Algernon Cadwallader will perform live at 5pm. We all know how much music fans love to wear t-shirts so this event seems like a match made [...]

· A fond farewell to Azure, the city’s first and only “vacation cuisine” spot.
· First Look at the new North Star Bar fancy-schmancy dining room.
· The hottest Bordeaux ever for like $28 bucks because the PCLB has no idea what it’s doing.
· First Look pics of Eric Ripert’s 10Arts opening.
· Video: Molecular Gastronana-what? Chef Jonathan [...]

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Previously: Garnet Mimms Is Still Awesome

BATMB1: What are we gonna do with all these ones and twenties?
BATMB2: Titty bar!!!!

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And she would know. In case you missed our earlier post on Brianna Taylor, Warminster native and wannabe Mariah and now one of the seven strangers on Real World XX, let us sum it up quickly: We’re obsessed. And while in past years, we have bemoaned the RW’s long slide into irrelevance, this year, we [...]

We’re pretty stoked about this one: All last summer, we shared many, many “moments” at Cavanaugh’s Riverdeck. It’s a rarity in the city: An outdoor bar, right on the river, and, though it’s probably prickish to say so, an often hilarious interface with NorthEast Philly culture, right here in town. (And yes, we know about [...]

>>> Say hello to the Examiner - Philly Edition, and uh, more to the point, do you wanna run this thing? The chain of online newspapers — the job ad says that they’re not, but that’s pretty much what it is — has expanded to 59 markets, and Philly’s one of them. Not sure what [...]

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>>> Apparently, Philly is lucky to be one of the few major markets where the new Troma feature, Poultrygeist is playing. From what we can put together, this is a movie about an avenging chicken ghost who likes to reach up people’s asses and pull out their innards and stuff. [View trailer here.] Playing at [...]

>>>> We love it when we see local bands doing cool, ambitious things with video. So much props go out to Illuminea, who’ve done a whole video EP thing on blip.tv to complement their new non-video EP on High Two Records. Unrelated, but sort of related: There’s something very Gilmore Girls about this band, ne [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy’s shots from Saturday’s Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

Promise #318:
Any time you read the following sentence — “There is going to be alot of news and controversy stirred up here, so get ready to be insulted and outraged” — it’s basically code for, “You will never need to read this blog. Like, seriously. Ever.”

After the jump, Tony Carpenter takes on gamblers, has-beens, and fools.

And no, for once, we’re not talking noise bands. We’re talking gypsy cabs.
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