If you win this, all that we ask is that you don’t do lines off of it. That would be sad, weird, and wrong. We mentioned this at the end of the day yesterday, and you probably thought we were shitting you. But we’re crappin’ you negative, brah. At around 4:30PM yesterday, a bike messenger [...]

We have been silent on this topic for far too long: That band MGMT annoys the living hell out of us. Why? Hard to say. Too Hot Topic, maybe. Too BlogRockBuster, perhaps — our age’s equivalent of the Blockbuster approach to music, like Boston in the 1970s, if Boston actually sucked and did not, as [...]

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Philly band East Hundred‘s brand spankin’ new clip for the debut single off their new record, Passenger. Directed by Macon Blair. Check the groop out at their Record Release Party tomorrow night at Johnny Brenda’s with Gildon Works and Jotto.

Mayor Nutter was in Fairfax, Virginia, this morning to hear President-elect Obama’s speech on the economy. He will give his response when he returns to City Hall this afternoon. Jazz hands or it didn’t happen, buddy.

TIME: Friday, January 9 at 12:30 p.m. PLACE: Chickie’s & Pete’s Parking Lot, Packer Park Shopping Center, 1528 Packer Avenue DETAILS: Philly fans (hoping the Giants will be crushed this weekend) will use sledgehammers to crush a station wagon decorated in Giants colors and logos. After the demolition, the vehicle will be transported to the [...]

Now, before we go any further, let’s just admit up front that we know nothing whatsoever about the actual science of weather and we hope to hell we’re wrong about all of this. But this much we know: In the six years since the wonderful, magical, joyous Blizzard of ’02, Philadelphia has suffered a weatherslide [...]

Over the holidays, local artist/friend to many, many Phileb readers Karl L. Papendick was savagely murdered. The crime was so violent — and Karl was so loved in his community — that it’s left many in the NoLibs/Kensington/Fishtown areas rocked. Next Thursday, the 700 is hosting an event/benefit to celebrate Karl’s life and work (details [...]

… to come up with a grade-school-appropriate version of the Muslim shoe-throw when George Bush visits Philly for the last time ever of his ridiculous, awful, shameful Presidency. He’s coming to your school, in Northern Liberties, right now, to pat himself on the back for the shitshow that is/was No Child Left Behind. Now, us [...]

We’re gonna see if we can’t score another one of these babies to give away tomorrow. Look, it’s only 5 o’clock, and you ALREADY have a reason to wake up in the morning! And yes, the rim you see is GOLD. Gold! So classy.

>>> Hey everybody, got a bit of a nepotism alert here, but it’s the best kind: See that tall tourist in the photo at right? That’s our Close Personal Friend Mickey Walker. You might know him from such unstoppable freak culture forces as Lilys, Mazarin, Blood Feathers and our own Foggy Notion dance party. (Fun [...]

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We have to admit, we’re a bit stumped: What do we do on Inauguration Day? Do we stay in the office and liveblog the thing like 50,000 other jerkwad bloggers? Or do we do what we did during the Phillies Parade and just start cracking beers open at noon, glue ourselves to the TV and [...]

I can’t believe they didn’t mention that it’s even closer to Murph’s. Craigslist: Corduroy-Clad Blogrock Bands Not Included

Listen, I don’t know what to tell you, but if you’re planning on needing surgery or dying or something, you may wanna find another, richer state to do it in — or just get an X-acto knife, some pills and DIY that shit — because PA hospitals are eating mac and cheese for every meal [...]

We saw them on Thanksgiving Eve, and we are happy to tell you that the Hooters still dress like this.

I mean, you would THINK this is something that we wouldn’t have to spell out, but there’s the Philly judicial system for ya: A Philadelphia judge has been suspended for three months without pay because he issued a phony protective order as a favor to a Romanian diplomat worried about someone who was talking to [...]

OK, file this one under “Request Fulfillment To Stop Busting Nutter’s Balls”: Because you can’t have Bizarro Nutter without Real Nutter, people. That’s just, like, science. So here’s the good news: 311 is up and running, and The Managing Director’s Office Of Emergency Management — that name really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? — [...]

This has nothing to do with anything, really, but yesterday, our friend Alexis sent us a link for this guy from Ann Arbor, MI called Mayer Hawthorne. He’s got this whole Stylistics/Delfonics vibe, he just got signed to Stone’s Throw, if that means anything to you, and he’s got a single out now called “Just [...]

Hey, remember all of those awesome Technologicology columns by Brian James Kirk we ran last year and the year before? They were great. Really. If you never read them, you should go back and check out BJK’s pretty much groundbreaking work in uncovering Philly’s still-kinda-nascent geek/DIY scene — your Alex Hillmans, your P’unk Aves, your [...]