FRIDAY: >>> You know what I like about tonight? The fact that there’s no option paralysis whatsoever. No siree, this Friday takes it eaaaasy. Even if you RSVP’d for Sunset (see post below) or are going to see Orville Robertson’s NYC Street Corners @ UArts, that’s all stuff that’s on the early side, events that [...]

Like you should always do on a Friday afternoon when the good people of the human race are envisioning whoever speaks to them as nothing so much as a giant, cold, frosty beer, Philly ad agency Gyro Worldwide has just announced it’s changing its name to Quaker City Mercantile. If this is a prank, it’s [...]

We thought we’d actually closed the list last night, but all day, we’ve been getting emails and IMs from folks wanting to know if they could still RSVP for tonight’s Sunset show (early-style, 8:30PM) at 2424 Studios, in conjunction with Philebs and Weathervane Music Organization. And, well, seeing is how the room they’re playing in [...]

RECOMMENDED: If you ask us, movies like I’m Gonna Explode and Y Tu Mama Tambien have done more in the last few years to expose Mexico as a vibrant, crazy and attractive place than any tourism board ever could. So the fact that Rudo Y Cursi brings Y Tu Mama‘s Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna [...]

I’m No Fool (With A Bicycle) — starring Jiminy Cricket — is just one of the cool bike-related short films the Secret Cinema will be showing Moore College of Art & Design in their program, “Bicycle Shorts.” Program starts at 8PM, admission is $7. Oh, and Jay Schwartz of Secret Cinema tells us he’s showing [...]

If you’ve been on The Book of Faces or The Google or elsewhere on the web lately — and obviously, you have — you may have seen links for shescominghome.com, with the tagline, “Hey Philadelphia! She’s back… Can you guess who it is?” Go to the site, and it’s a woman’s silhouette against the Philly [...]

End times make for strange bedfellows. In an email this morning from the Newspaper Guild — basically, the union of Inky and DN employees — this little nugget of information was dropped, regarding deposed Inky sports loudmouth and recently also-deposed ESPN blowhard Stephen A. Smith: “…The Guild is awaiting an arbitrator’s decision on the improper [...]

Modern-day girl group Ménage á Twang — based in Brooklyn, of course — took the Bolt Bus down to Philly to shoot this video for their first single. See if you can spot the Philly spots.

After a few months during which it was pretty much the most (awesome) poorly kept secret in Philly music circles, Matador Records officially announced that the label has signed Philly’s own Kurt Vile, and will be releasing his next record, Childish Prodigy, in the fall. The signing comes after a rush of activity from the [...]

When historians look back, years from now, at our state history, they are bound to see a Pennsylvania that is literally schizophrenic. Torn apart by the culture wars, bitterly divided between the old American Way that has left so many of us screwed and a new American Way whose major roadblocks are xenophobia and simply [...]

>>> Morrissey: He’s 50. I don’t know what to say about that, really, other than this: You should be this awesome when you finally approach that age, in a few weeks. The world is run by men in their 50s, the wisdom goes, but Morrissey has been quietly ruling a lot of us since some [...]

We’ll have a lot more stuff up on all of this after the weekend, but in the meantime, know this: You’re going to want to save Saturday June 20 on your calendar, if you like fun and being outside and music and food and all of that stuff. It’s gonna be a big day in [...]

Because even though Mother’s Day was just last month, at the very least, your mom did not kidnap you in the most stupid, fucked-up way possible, take you to some Disney Hell and then blame it on two black guys. For that alone, and lots of other things, quit being such a jerk and HUG [...]

As we speak, reps from the New York Times, Gannett, E. W. Scripps, McClatchy, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, and, of course, Philadelphia Media Holdings are having a TOP SECRET MEETING entitled “Models to Monetize Content” in Rosemont, Illinois. Well, maybe it’s not top secret. But what is top secret about it is, [...]

Yesterday, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia staged its annual Commuter Race and wouldn’t you know it, the bicycle prevailed for the fourth year in a row, beating out a car and a SEPTA bus. Coincidentally, for the fourth year in a row, the race was heralded as a huge success for the Coalition, who [...]

· The piece, titled “The Arthur Kade Project,” was penned by Dan P. Lee, also author of the Hatchet Lite® piece on Sweeney a few years back, and strangely, follows roughly the exact same formula and dramatic arc. Not surprising. But also, if we can go meta here for a moment, totally terrifying, like a [...]

We’re betting that whatever class you may have gotten out of for this, it was totally worth it.

Like you, we’ve been following this whole Bonnie Sweeten mess with a mixture of horror and “you’re doing it wrong.” Emptying your bank account, faking a double-kidnapping, and forcing the police to blast out an Amber Alert over the whole area is one thing. Actually, that’s three things. Doing it all so stupidly is another. [...]

Falcon me? Falcon YOU. In case you didn’t know, wild Peregrine Falcons have been making a home for themselves at City Hall for the last three years or so. The falcons aren’t endangered, but they are scarce, after a round of DDT poisoning in the 1950s set their population back considerably. This morning, PA Wildlife [...]

Now, Kate Gosselin, star of Jon And Kate Plus 8, may not be from Northeast Philly, but you can bet your Crocs that her hair is. We’re kind of late to the Jon and Kate party, but lately, as press coverage of this truly horrifying woman and her poor beleaguered family has reached critical mass [...]