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 [...]

Dear Guild Member, As you all should be aware, Philadelphia Media Holdings, (“PMH”), the owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News, has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.

FRIDAY: >>> If you stare into the moving parts of that Turnaround Vs. Immediate flyer at right long enough, you’re going to get all the answers you need: Nothing stops moving, if you stay in one place long enough you might start to feel nauseous, and weekend picks is pretty much the only post we’re [...]

Well, sometimes, you don’t need a story at all. Previously: Classy: Metro Turns Story Of Cop’s Death Into An Ode To Facebook

>>> We haven’t gotten an update recently from either party involved in the Rare Birds versus RareBirds local band dispute. But this much we know: The South Philly RareBirds (pictured) are playing tonight at the M Room, and THERE’S GONNA BE A KNIFE FIGHT! Just kidding. But the part about the M Room gig is [...]

· Collin Flatt Takes On Chifa Dish By Dish · Rachael Ray On Barclay Prime: “HOW GOOD IS THAT?” · How To: The World Is Your Bagel, You Make The Cream Cheese. · Phoodie’s Guide To The Philly Noms For The 2009 James Beard Awards All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide [...]

There’s a great AP piece out there in the ether right now by Jake Coyle detailing the genesis, reaction to, and slight weirdness that most certainly is The Roots becoming Jimmy Fallon’s house band. Coyle doesn’t flinch in describing what has often been a great paycheck but artistic death that comes with TV house band [...]

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We love Penn Treaty Park. A lot. (Ask us about the time we saw a real live Native American troupe perform the Sugar Hill Gang’s “Apache” there in the sixth grade!) But like things do, PTP has fallen in and out of disrepair over the last bunch of years, and this meeting next Thursday — [...]

AS TOLD BY OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, J. CONOR CORCORAN, ESQ.: Standing on State Road in the great Northeast, outside the four houses of correction for Philadelphia, one can often hear the dulcet tones of a jailhouse full of cherubs, wailing cries of injustice because of their lawyers. Nevermind being caught in flagrante delicto with a [...]

Breast cancer awareness PSA starring Sweet Dee and Mac.

AContinuousLean: A Guide to Fishtown, Philadelphia, USA

And it’s here that we must step in and speak directly with City Hall: Are you people fucking retarded? Let us consider, for a moment, what would really happen if you started charging people $5 a week to collect the trash: On each block, there would be people, proud and righteous and civic-minded people, of [...]

As you get older, you accrue more and more of them: Friends who wind up moving out to the burbs because their spouses made them, and they just got tired of the fight. The reasons, you see, were always good: Better schools, closer to the workplace, and no, there’s nothing racist about that (except there [...]

Just a quick note: As of this morning, single-game tickets are now on sale for your World Fucking Champion Philadelphia Phillies. Ticket prices have gone up a bit, but you can still get into games on the low end for $16-$18, with the really good seats maxing out at $60 per. Some games of note: [...]

Everyone fell dead silent when the pair entered the malt shop. Michael and Barry had always been fierce competitors within their respective sports and clubs (chess, drama, hoops), but they’d also been classmates, with the same problems confronting them: Cramming for finals, who they would take to the prom, and so on. They’d nod to [...]

>>> The above has got to be one of the Top 25 Inexplicably Badass Yet Psychedelic Movie Openings Of Ever. It’s from Jean Christophe Averty‘s Melody from 1971 starring Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, which is part of the Melody, Melody & Meg program at ICA/I-House tonight. If you do not go to this, you [...]

Looks like PW is deleting criticisms from comments pages on today’s wildly myopic, first-person Cover Story. This one was posted earlier and was down last I checked. seriously…who is this article supposed to relate to?? arts and entertainment…are you guys nuts??? This is the best you could do with an entire city full of things [...]

We didn’t even know we had a Dept. of Shoot My Face, but whoot: There it is. Thank Christ we already gave our bit in the panelist bucket for the month.