Archive for February, 2009 Wednesday, February 11th, 2009>>> We can’t stop talking about Lie To Me here in the office, even though the show’s plotlines are so totally implausible and goofy. Still, Tim Roth is great as this kooky lie scientist (lientist?) and he’s pretty much carrying the whole thing on his shoulders here and as a result, it’s doomed so we’re [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009After the jump, Dan Murphy‘s shots from last night’s sold-out Plastic Little/Japanther/NinjaSonic show at Kung Fu Necktie, plus a tune from the Japanther. Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Whether you have a significant other, or plan to troll for sexy singles this Saturday, make sure to be clad in these! Philly based designer Callie Konane Rickards makes some pretty fabulous body suits and play suits (pictured) perfectly made to set whatever mood you have planned. [Etsy] For post-coital activities, color each other senselessly–or [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Now, before we go any further, let us just say that WXPN is waist-deep in its annual fund drive and if, in this crazy economy, you have extra bones or clams or whatever it is you people call them, you should by all means pledge. That said, today has been the worst day, musically speaking, [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s opening ain’t got shit on this. Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Upper Darby’s got the weirds right now: >>>Somebody beat up a nun, in a church parking lot, breaking her pelvis, and stealing a purse that was empty of pretty much anything of value. Except, probably, forgiveness. [Inky] >>>A 19-year-old just went around setting a bunch of fires like she was a 9-year-old. Is this the [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Misstallica — formerly Clitallica, until their moms found out — are an all-female teenage Metallica cover band. They played on Preston & Steve and probably got insanely grossed out. Wednesday, February 11th, 2009So, um, suck it, Chicago. Also, at right, to celebrate, is the World’s Smallest Tug McGraw. That is all. Forbes: Now That Money No Longer Exists, We’re The Nation’s Leading Listicle-Makers Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Somebody please correct us: Don’t you have to have slugged it out in the fashion biz for a minimum of 30 years before someone will put a documentary of basically you, bitching for two hours, in theaters and expect anybody to go see it? And doesn’t even that rule get amended to simply “NEVER!” if [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, what are we gonna do with you? On one hand you get big ups for forcing fast food joints to tell people exactly the manner in which they are slowly but surely dying, but on the other, you’ve totally been busted using a city car (and city gas money, natch) to [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 20091. Hotbox all the way up to the Princeton Record Exchange, listening to the music of America (pictured). 2. Go to Johnny’s Hot and then sit in the sun at Penn Treaty Park while sausage juice drips all down our ruddy faces, for surely we are children of gods. 3. Shoot a whole new grip [...] Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Oh yeah, baby, it’s on! Thursday, July 30 at Citizen’s Bank Park, these two will wage war in an epic battle of schmaltz and entitlement. Still unaware that THEY ARE THE VERY REASON PUNK ROCK WAS CREATED, Elton John and Billy Joel will vie for an imaginary title the rest of the world forgot about [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009· First Look: Chifa Sneak Peek · UPenn Says No To Peanut Butter, Rationalism · Food Truck Vendors With No Internet Access Or Widely Available Phone Numbers, Finally, There Is A Video Podcast For You · And Now, Here’s What We Have To Add Regarding The Foobooz Post About The Union Trust Opening Party · [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009OH HAI. It’s Darwin’s 200th birthday or whatever and to celebrate, tons of animals are doing stupid things that are barely worth talking about. Let’s go! >>> At the Philadelphia Zoo, Red Pandas Pip and Jing Li have fallen in love. I guess we know this because they’ve been watching You’ve Got Mail together and [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009PhillySkyline: New York’s Alright If You Like Saxaphones [4th item, for the love of God, Bradley, just fucking install WordPress already] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009>>> Question: Are we the only people in the world who know that Patti Smith is playing at UPenn this Thursday afternoon? [ICAPhila] >>> Evening Magazine, the TV show: Responsible for introducing the world to the milieu of Nancy Glass and Ray Murray, two of the most vapid 1980s chat show hosts to have ever [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Spotted at Fishtown’s Starboard Side. (Fun trivia: Sweeney’s Grandpa used to own this place and it was called The Shrimp Boat.) Starboard Side, while we think your reactionary tone is kind of whiny, we cannot deny your basic point: Chalk is for everyone. Bonus points for actually spelling words right, something that rarely happens in [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Jesus Christ, in the last 24 hours, the whole world just became like your friends’ marriages and children: BORRRRRRING. So to bide the time, we’re gonna rev up an old Philebrity Phorgotten Phave: Dr. Philebrity! For those of you new to Philebrity’s resident psychiatrist/physician/witchdoctor/ombudsman, let’s just put it this way: Any problemz you can has, [...] Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Guys Gone Mild, the gents behind that awesome Swimmers video, are back with their new video podcast, The Facts. Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Public records of donations are nifty things. Back when, you may remember the time “local man”/weird God, gays and science dude John Templeton Jr gave an estimated $1 million to the efforts to defeat PASS Proposition 8 in California – the discriminatory ballot initiative that united Mormons, anti-gay churches, and douchebags nationwide to quash the [...] | | |