>>> Summer Jamz with DJs Manny D & Jason S is that party that has the naked tittie ladies from that awesome Roxy Music album cover on the flyer, so how wrong could this possibly go. We’re thinking not very, especially with the directive for the party’s single requirement: “Ripping attitude.” At 700.
>>> Electric Six [...]

Even the most casual reader of this site might have picked up over the years that, well, we love Jerry Blavat aka The Geator With The Heater, The Boss With The Sauce, My Man Pots And Pans. We love him like he was our own blood. We love the way he talks all over the [...]

Says our (quite rightfully freaked the hell out) reader: “I work in the same building as Student Health Services at UPenn, and this scrap of paper has been sitting in the stairwell on their floor for a few days. In case it’s illegible, that second box reads ‘Hepatitis B.’ Great, cause I totally needed another [...]

Do you really think the mighty E Street Band could be stumped by a Clash cover?
You foolish, foolish person. Also, Clark3135 REALLY wants you to email him.
I stood on the Spectrum floor and looked at the hockey boards around me…torn and tattered, falling to pieces, literally. I did my best to watch the crowd often [...]

In advance of our interview with the Geator (come back later today) about Sunday’s Street Corner Harmony show at the Kimmel, we thought we’d revisit one of the more entertaining PSAs from the past year. And in case you forgot how, here’s one of the surprisingly many YouTube videos that will teach you how [...]

Now if Cincinnati can get its own superhero, surely, we should be able to come with ArcticSplashMan or something, no?

So, Jennifer Weiner — chick-lit magnate/Queen of Middlebrow/obvious choice for next CEO of Phila. Newspapers Inc. — is going to have her perfume-smelling lilypad of knowing wit photographed for Entertainment Weekly as part of their ongoing series that displays, in photographs, how you can apply the Cribs formula to anything, even mass-market writers. (Though admittedly [...]

The Dude — who, if you hadn’t noticed, is really busy these days — had a press conference yesterday announcing (once again) that corruption is bad, costs the city money, and (new for this year) here comes the calvary! This time, instead of getting his office bugged, the Mayor of Philadelphia is working [...]

· At noon today, The Dude will announce the first of 500 Big Belly solar-powered litter baskets in Center City, pictured at right in all of their “What-the-hell-is-that-thing” glory. But trust us, this is good news:
[...] solar-powered litter baskets are cost effective and more efficient than our traditional litter baskets. They will reduce overflowing, [...]

>>>Did you hear? The Philadelphia Phantoms are (probably) headed to the Lehigh Valley, with a year-long stop in, um, Glen Falls, New York, aka “Hometown, U.S.A.” Actually, Glen Falls is freaking gorgeous. Maybe they just needed a break from the sea of pavement at the sports complex. [Morning Call]
>>>Go to sixers.com right [...]

Okay something that makes no sense to me: firefighters on Segways. I saw two men in Phila firefighter uniforms (not fire gear) cruising down market on Segways. Police I understand. But firefighters??? Have u seen this?
We have not, but apparently this is a real thing — at least in Sweden, if the video at right [...]

>>>Mad Love is playing Kung Fu Necktie at 8pm. Former Members of Mr. Bungle can’t be all bad, right? Plus, there’s an upright bass involved. They’re playing with Whales & Cops, pictured at right, and promising a kind of creepy, mellow-catchy vibe.
>>> Go be a good citizen and support Bike & Build at the Tritone. [...]

· Kitchen Karaoke?
· It’s Vintastic: Chapel Hill Unwooded Chardonnay
· This Just In: Bacon Ironically The Antidote For “Wine Flu”
· Cinco de Mayo, Cinco de Youro
All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Following up on our post on Monday about Philly Car Share’s season in hell, we were lucky enough to get PCS acting executive director and co-founder Eli Massar on the phone at the end of the day yesterday. Massar assumed his post back in September, when a shakeup between fellow PCS co-founders Tanya Seaman and [...]

whine · flu · noun, slang.
Highly contagious psychological condition affecting many urban dwellers, who often work in close proximity to one another and share similar lifestyles. Symptoms often include open and grotesque displays of dissatisfaction with SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, ROOMMATES and FRIENEMIES. Levels of complaining are often more to voice SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT than any perceived or real infractions [...]

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden met on a student film shoot at NYU. Their first feature film, Half Nelson, for which rising star Ryan Gosling received his first Oscar nomination, was made for just $800,000 and put the pair on the Hollywood map as the next great writing/directing duo. Their follow-up film, Sugar, is about [...]

Surely, by now, you must be familiar with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, the brassy, soulful star act of Daptone Records, which itself has a pretty amazing Cinderella story. The stakes for Daptone are pretty high — nothing less than restoring soul music to an apex of creativity and accessibility it hasn’t seen since American [...]

Joel Mathis did The Skorpion Show dirty and ooh-wee, Skorpion is PISSED!

Which, in a perverse way, we think is kind of funny, too. BUT THE JOKE ONLY GOES SO FAR, PEOPLE. In this new Pew Poll, the numbers seem to suggest nearly once and for all that those of us on the freak side of Philly — you know, your neighborhood activists, your young parents, your [...]

That’s what Happy Accident did, and look, you just can’t argue with results. Bucky, Blake and Yael told us “we saved a bundle by doing our press photo in the concourse-level of The Gallery. It is only $10 and the background “framing” is included. See attached. Many background styles to choose from! Bands need to [...]