>>> Yes, of course, you know that Icy Demons is Bablicon’s Griffin Rodriguez and Man Man / Need New Body’s Christopher Powell aka Pow Pow, but have you ever actually listened to them? This is the catchiest “avant” stuff you’ll ever hear, but it still has heaping helpings of the Philly Weird all over it, [...]

Documents filed Sunday by Philadelphia Newspapers LLC and seven affiliates said that the pay of Tierney, a public relations executive who put together the investment group that bought the paper from McClatchy in June 2006 for $562 million, was boosted just two months ago by 38% to $850,000. Forbes: WTF Times Infinity PLUS: TIERNEY SPEAKS!

We picked up the debut LP by Gentlemen Jesse & His Men a few weeks ago, and haven’t stopped cranking it since. Fans of The Flamin’ Groovies especially will dig Jesse’s old-school power pop chops; the ladies seem to like that he dresses up and cops a Peeping Tom vibe on the cover. In any [...]

Don’t know if you’ve hit on this yet, but with the near-simultaneous filings of Philadelphia Newspapers LLC and Journal Register Co. this weekend, almost every major daily and weekly newspaper in the entire metro region is in bankruptcy. Save for the Bucks County Courier Times (Calkins Media Inc.) and the Courier-Post (Gannett), you can’t swing [...]

Let’s play a little game, shall we? We are hearing that Philadelphia Weekly will be re-launching its website for the 84th time ever tomorrow. And even though we typed things like “test” and “dev” at the end of its URL to sneak a peek, we still have not seen it yet. But this much we [...]

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The Seinfeld reference struck us as particularly sad, but we had to pull back when we realized our next move was going to be telling Citizen Mom to get some of tweez. Tweez nutz. Previously: The InkRapture’s Lowliest Victims: Twitter

Let’s just put it this way: It’s probably easier for any of us now than it was, say 24 hours, to imagine a Philadelphia in which the Metro, that lovable scamp, is the only daily newspaper in Philadelphia. And while all newspapers are losing money right now, the Metro may be the only print publication [...]

Oh, come on. You totally laughed.

PerezHilton: Seriously, Make A Steve Martin/Tina Fey Lovebaby, Just Do It For Civilization’s Sake

Oh, Philly tap water: That great divider between transplants and natives. We cannot tell you how many friends’ homes we’ve visited that serve only Brita out of a paralyzing fear that drinking even a drop of Philly tap will instantly turn you into a mouth-breathing Fishtown street urchin who speaks middle English and reminisces about [...]

We hadn’t even thought of this part yet: CITIZEN MOM MAY HAVE TO WORK FOR A LIVING NOW! (You know, instead of tweeting her every thought and movement while hubby toils at the Inky.) However, we realize that you may care about this even less than we do: If you are looking for tweets about [...]

From: Tierney, Brian P. Sent: Sun 2/22/2009 11:38 PM To: All BSCN Employees; All BSM Employees; All PN Employees; All Philly.com Employees; All PN, BSCN and PHILLY.COM Employees Subject: Important Notice To: All PN Employees Today we took an important strategic step toward restructuring our debt obligations. To do so we have voluntarily filed for [...]

This whole thing — there’s just so much weirdness in it. For one thing, we didn’t even know that you could file for bankruptcy on a Sunday. Like Brian Tierney, we were raised Catholic, with an angry and vengeful god whom, if you were so impudent as to bother him with complicated paperwork while he [...]