For Immediate Release
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
SATURDAY: Springsteen to Join Rally for Obama in Philadelphia
Free concert for Pennsylvanians will be huge opportunity to register voters and sign up volunteers; preferred tickets must be picked up at campaign offices
PHILADELPHIA – Bruce Springsteen is coming to Philadelphia this weekend to perform an acoustic set at [...]

>>> At the risk of pounding this one into the ground, you should really, really come see Glasvegas at the North Star with The Cobbs (and our own Sweeney DJing between sets). For one, let’s just put this out there: We are in love with this band. We have no monetary stake in this show [...]

>>> Whoa! Been a few minutes since we did one of these. But Philebrity shall serve no wine before its time. So what is ripe? The new Philadelphyinz mixtape, featuring among others Black Sheep, Peedi Crakk, Freeway, Hercules and Love Affair, Lil Mama and so many more. This improved the vibe in the office instantly. [...]

Today is the last day of the New York Sun; editor Seth Lipsky says goodbye. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the paper (which given its abysmal circulation numbers, are legion), the Sun was a well-written and unapologetically neoconservative rag that revived a legendary name in the newspaper world. Its copy [...]

Ahhh, Delaware Ave.: Mooks rush in, or at least used to, where angels fear to tread. But as the center of the Mookiverse has shifted in these last few years — it’s more of a Mook Diaspora now, spread across Old City, Northern Liberties, Manayunk and beyond — Delaware Avenue has been having a bit [...]

Awwww yeah. Look at you, Phils, just walking in like you own the goddamned place! Oh, and Lidge! MLB Comeback Player of the Year? Atza nize. We’re gonna do a whole get-psyched-update post tomorrow to pre-game, but in the meantime, courtesy worldanthems, here’s some hot new tee-shirt designs coming down the pipeline. Two more after [...]

This is already turning out to be a brilliant week for shows: Glasvegas tonight, and tomorrow, Stereolab. It’s crazy to think that this band has been around for over 15 years, but there it is. And tomorrow night at the Trocadero, they’re back in town. We had a blast at our listening party for the [...]

Apocalyptica delivers “Enter Sandman” last night at TLA on four cellos and a drum kit; sing-along begins at about 0:25.

Sometime last winter, PhillyMag editor Larry Platt’s fledgling congressional campaign, um, fledgelled, or whatever you like to call it. Not because we would have liked to see Larry fail, but rather because it just seemed a waste of his talents, it was kind of a sigh of relief, for a few reasons. One being that [...]

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barack HUSSEIN obama: just another bum looking for change. and if you vote for him change is all you’ll have left in your pocket. keep the raghead communist out of the white house. NOBAMA!
From Hello Darkness My Old Friend, 2008/09/30 at 12:07 AM
It is??? Then how come it feels so goddamn right? [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Last Sunday on Mad Men, Freddy Rumsen pissed his pants — we don’t need to tell you that this kind of thing happens when you stay drunk for 15 years — and before anyone knew it, good ol’ Freddy was out on his ass. It was kind of sad. And in the episode, [...]

Half-hearted apologies: Where would we, as a city, be without them? Don’t answer that: Instead, marvel at how chief aide to councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. Latrice Bryant has been able to take a minor, probably-nothing-would-have-happened scandal (doesn’t fill out time sheets right! drinks beer with boss! maybe more!) and really and truly turn it [...]

>>> Weird: Monday night, lots of good shows. Could it be? Do you hear THE THUNDER? Are these the opening howls of ROCKTOBER? Holy shit, son, it IS. Well, we know we always tell you this, but you should go and check out South Philly’s The Extraordinaires at the Khyber with a bunch of other [...]

Soooooooo, not sure if you know this, but basically everyone in Philadelphia who has a Twitter subscribes to the Philebrity Twitter, and just recently, we started subscribing back to everyone else who subscribes to us. We did it not because we want to know how your weekend Etsy projects are going, but with the twinkle [...]

Food for thought: So Creative Loafing, an alt-weekly chain/parent company thing that mostly covers cities you would not live in with even with somebody else’s dick, totally screwed the pooch and declared bankruptcy so that its papers — including Washington City Paper — can better “focus” their efforts online. You can see where we might [...]

Everybody knows that when the stars of stage and screen come to Philadelphia, generally, they stay at the greatest piece of real estate Philly has to offer: New York City. But every so often, someone will come around and, for whatever reasons, wind up having to stay here. And when they do, they generally stay [...]

In case you missed our gushing introduction to Scottish noise/doo-wop/pop saviors Glasvegas last week, let us say it again: Their debut Philly gig is at the North Star Bar tomorrow night, and we could not possibly be more pumped. This is a band that we’ve been stalking on MySpace for the last two years, downloading [...]

May you rest in peace, you beautiful, beautiful man. Here’s that time you totally got around the Hays Production Code. Hot damn.

This is apropos of nothing, really, unless you chalk it up to a morning full of reading about/posting on Palin et al. really being like another 9/11 in which my own governing body’s response is to GO SHOPPING. To that end, look: If Baghdad can have its own giant ferris wheel (not that they don’t [...]