Hey, remember a few weeks ago (or maybe even still) when everybody was throwing up all over the place and had gross fevers and other things? Well, yeah, that was apparently because a bunch of us were touching poop in a fashion not seen since 2003, and we all got exactly what we deserved. Meet [...]

Billy Werner and Ryan T‘s popular Robotique party moves north to Kung Fu Necktie tonight, and they just dropped this mixtape that is putting us on a mellow disco level not seen in this office since that time we found an old orange bottle of still-in-tact Quaaludes. Enjoy. Track listing after the jump.

The other day, when we were blowing a gasket over Jennifer Weiner, driven to sweats and hategoogling (it’s a real thing, Oprah’s gonna do a show about it), you know what felt like sweet calamine lotion on our burning skin? The realization that Weiner’s husband, Adam Bonin, seems like a totally righteous dude. Then we [...]

20th & Chestnut circa 1828 — Bundy Typewriter nowhere in sight! Reader Shawn Kornhauser writes: Here are some images from an old Philly City Planning Commission book I came across: http://flickr.com/photos/shawnk/sets/72157613417397716/ I’m away from Philly for a while finishing my degree at the University of Massachusetts, being homesick for Philly I somehow found my way [...]

>>> We only mention it to you because we always have to check for ourselves: The Black Keys are not the band of obnoxious middle class shitbags who pulled a Clockcleaner and got their asses kicked out of India and are now acting like they don’t suck because it’s like some kind of punk rock [...]

Katie Henry: An orgy of bags, I tell you! This Friday, Bambi Gallery presents “Tell Tales” — an exhibition featuring works of art by Katie Henry and Katherine Kaminski. This exhibition is one to evoke a sense of nostalgia (whether it be camping in Jersey or chilling with your goose headed grandmother) but mostly good [...]

We’d be remiss if we let the day pass by without mentioning this: Somebody just forwarded us this link for Woot.com where today and today only, you can get the portable USB turntable at right for only $50. Sweeney’s mom, I mean SANTA got him one of these for Christmas, and it’s been hooked up [...]

Perhaps finally pushed by the threat of more wangbreaks during family TV time, the Philadelphia City Council has finally approved the ordinance authorizing Verizon’s FiOS to come in and give awful, soul-sucking Comcast some much-needed competition. It now moves to Mayor Nutter for the final go-ahead. No word yet on whether or not they’ll be [...]

I mean, c’mon, in those hot Philly summers, Lil’ Hairy Eddie (pictured) is gonna need somewhere to go lest he become a corner boy, no? Philadelphia, February 5- Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Recreation Commissioner Susan Slawson launched the “Splash & Summer Fund,” a three year fund raising campaign designed to increase the number of [...]

If you live in the general Tucson area, you’ve already had to explain to your kids what a wang is and how it has NOTHING to do Larry Fitgerald’s fourth-quarter touchdown, and it’s all because of Comcast. To add insult to wangjury, Comcast is now offering a $5 credit to anyone who suffered at its [...]

Very artfully done clip of Philly’s Hoots & Hellmouth, via AthensSoundies.

Lux Interior, of course, was the singer in the legendary Cramps, a band so storied and quintessentially, darkly American that they almost came to hold a kind of Norman Rockwell-ish stature. He died yesterday. In the last few years, we’ve been listening to the Cramps more than we ever thought we would back when we [...]

A Senate Amendment to Bar Museums from Any Economic Recovery Funds (Stimulus Package) could be offered today. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to prohibit any funds in the economic stimulus bill from going to museums. The language of the amendment, (Amendment No. 175, as filed) is, “None of the amounts appropriated or [...]

In an effort to band together with all the crazy rich motherfuckers whose hubris was so gargantuan that they thought they could save print and are subsequently now scared shitless that they’re going to lose their papers, their summer homes and their Mexicans, Brian Tierney has recently joined in with his brethren to spread the [...]

We know it’s been tough on you: Since November, while others were still basking in the afterglow of ObamaPhillies and clinging to their jobs for dear life, you’ve been free-falling, spending your $450-club check on beer and drugs as soon as it comes in, avoiding phone calls from your parents (unless you’re asking them for [...]

So, yes: The Philadelphia Phantoms were the brokedick minor league hockey team that was kept in the Spectrum on the off chance that all the Flyers died one day in a fiery plane wreck. This way, Comcast-Spectacor and Ed Snider figured, if the real hockey team died (or started complaining about pay), we could just [...]

>>> Ominous folkie Larkin Grimm rolls into Kung Fu Necktie, with Hunter Gatherer (whom you may remember as Audrey, pictured, from Cheap Dates) supporting. >>> Also — We All Together at 700 as usuals. >>> But do go out, I mean, really.

1. Big Pete (pictured) looks like this now. 2. Also, for a while in the late 1990s, Big Pete (real name Michael C. Maronna) also worked at Borders Bryn Mawr, which would explain why Big Pete looks like this now. Oh no wait, we’re wrong, that wasn’t Big Pete, it was… TEDDY! 3. Little Pete [...]

“First I broke the camera, then I broke Ticketmaster. And something something something about 9/11 and Vietnam. PUT DOWN THE CHICKEN FINGERS!” Is anybody following this thing where NJ Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.) wants to investigate Ticketmaster on accounta them screwing the pooch so bad on Monday’s big Springsteen on-sale? Love it. Related, also [...]

More Snow Day fun: Our buddy Dryw just dropped his annual V-Day mix for the lovers, the dreamers and you. Abbondanza!