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You would think that with an opening date of of January 31, The Philadelphia International Auto Show‘s entire schedule would be pretty much locked down. But so far this year, the show — one of the largest of its kind on the East Coast — is boasting a swiss cheese lineup that mirrors the auto [...]

We’re not members of the Rachel Maddow Livejournal Fan Community — YET — but that doesn’t mean that, since sometime last summer, we’ve turned to MSNBC for no other reason than this: If xenophobes and mouth-breathers could enjoy their filthy succor at the hands of Fox News for eight years, bolstering each and every hateful [...]

You know, as Main Line Alcoves Of Privilege & Contentment go, we don’t really mind Narberth. (Perhaps it’s because we still hold a candle for the idyll of Hope and Michael out there, staying one step ahead of creditors and the death of love.) But last night, a dark thing happened in Narberth: The Great [...]

>>> Can you believe so many cities want to lay claim to the legacy of an itinerant drunken writer? Tonight at the Free Library‘s Great Poe Debate, scholars from Boston and Baltimore drag their sad asses into town to debate local Poe champion Ed Pettit and some guy named Grover Silcox whom you probably won’t [...]

>>> For some reason — DJs have lots of downtime over the holidays? — we are getting deluged with mixtapes and remixes since we came back to work in ’09. If you missed last week’s post on the Diplo MGMT remix, the debate is still raging on that one. Less controversial: The Rub‘s mammoth two-part [...]

So many people sent this one in that if we don’t run it, it’s like we’re denying the zeitgeist its most basic service. So with that in mind: “WHAAAAAAZZZZZUUUUUUUUUPPPPPP?!” Can you hear something that Donovan McNabb is trying to make a phone call about? Send it along to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Wait up, who the shit did we win this thing for? US — as in “Why can’t…” — or the people of, say, the Heritage Hills Golf Resort & Conference Center, where yesterday, the Phillies’ World Series trophy made the first appearance of its 3-week long tour. Whatever, we’ll take it: As if we did [...]

Besides the black and white checkered floor — which calls to mind the Nifty Fifties where you built that figure in the first place — there’s nothing too “retro” about the strange gym chain Retro Fitness. In its East Coast takeover, Retro Fitness is now featured in the Greater Northeast at Franklin Mills, Welsh and [...]

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AS TOLD BY OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, J. CONOR CORCORAN, ESQ.: With its case coming to a close, the Feds were saving one of their best witnesses for last: Leonard Luchko, a former Senate staffer and Fumo devotee who, subsequent to the FBI’s investigation of Senator Fumo, began destroying records and various communications in an effort [...]

Indeed, we have made mention on this site of the Steagles concept before. And by now, you’ve probably thought on your own or had someone mention to you the realer-by-the-minute notion of an Eagles/Steelers Superbowl. Anyone who knows anything about football in this city has probably already admitted, at least in a whisper to themselves, [...]

>>> Since when does one of those goofy “How long since we had a championship?” websites feel totally out of step with reality? I mean, yeah, they’re talking bout the Sixers, but still. [Converse] >>> And at what point did we all stop expecting to read about hobo killing trials in a modern, urban newspaper? [...]

You know, we mentioned this on Phoodie.info last week, but just to clarify: Pepsi, you are not Barack Obama. You are the cola that in inferior to Coca-Cola but superior to, say, RC. Just stop it. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. [Photo credit: HughE Dillon]

SEPTA is sending 13 officers — one captain, two sergeants, eight officers and two canine handlers and their dogs — to “help” the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority with the Inauguration clusterfuck next week. That is all. PBJ: Paul Blart, El Cop Goes To Washington Previously: Experimental Cell-Phone-Free SEPTA Train Raises More Questions Than It [...]

>>> Is Chip Chantry (pictured) funny? Well, shit, he better be! Tonight is the premiere edition of Chantry’s once-a-month comedy show at The Khyber, which finds him performing with a whole circle of buds (we know that doesn’t quite sound right) coming outta the whole Comic Vs. Audience scene: Kent Haines, Johnny Goodtimes, Secret Pants, [...]

· Recommended Viewing: Stella Artois’ “The Race” · Brain Trust: Help Us Name Ten Great Spots In Philly That Only Serve ONE Thing · catFood: Pork Chops And Apple Sauce · The Phoodies: Best Of 2008 All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and [...]

This just in via the Batphone from City Hall: Today, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, DHS Commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose, and Administrative Family Court Judge Kevin Dougherty announced an 11% increase in adoptions, the first gain in 4 years. This surpasses the goal set in the spring to increase adoptions by 10%. The number of Permanent [...]