>>> Check out happn.in/philadelphia if you want to be truly disappointed to find out what people in Philadelphia are Twittering about. That’s right, we just boldfaced “Twittering.” You should have seen the other guy. [happn.in] >>> Not even a whole month after we first wrote about it, the boring, thoughtless and ultimately sad effinghipsterphl.tumblr.com would [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy‘s shots from Saturday’s Trenton Ave. Arts Fest/Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

Casino-Free Philadelphia‘s next big protest action, Beat The House, looks to send the Gambling Industry a message on its own turf. More info at their site.

It is a trope so tired and worn that it actually is almost musical: “But the big story on Action News tonight is a fire…” Funny thing is, last night’s Sunoco Refinery fire in Marcus Hook — still blazing, BTW — was so massive that it’s now responsible for a quick surge in gas prices, [...]

You had to see this coming, right? Yesterday, Inky editorial page editor Harold Jackson pissed and moaned all over the place about how hiring John Yoo fosters debate and is not just one more fucked up thing his boss, Brian Tierney, is making him deal with in some kind of conservative business-death fantasy game. Jackson [...]

We know, we know: This spring and summer, you are all about your garden. (I mean, they stopped making Sparks, so you might as well just start honing your Old Lady Skills now, right?) Anyway, we feel you — and so do lots of other folks: It’s estimated that home gardening will see as much [...]

Ask anyone who’s ever had a dangerously sick kid: CHOP — that would be the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — rules. Anyone we’ve ever spoken with who’s had any experience there generally raves: How the doctors are all but miracle workers, how the staff are friendly and kind, and so on. But CHOP might have [...]

FRIDAY: >>> I want you to play a game with me: It’s called “2003.” First, go see Peaches rap about sex and dongs and stuff and see if it’s still edgy; back in ’03, last time I saw her, she was bordering on doing a female Iggy Pop thing that could have really been something. [...]

Made In U.S.A. is Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1966 homage to The Big Sleep. It plays in Philadelphia for the first time ever tonight and tomorrow at International House. In the scene above, Marianne Faithfull shows the best way to walk into a room and own it instantly.

Twooooooo dolllarrrssssss! On June 1, The Academy Of Natural Sciences will raise its admission prices by $2 for both adults and kids, but look at it this way: $12 is worth every penny to see all 37 of what we believe to be a largely unsung art form: Dioramas. Sure, their educational value may be [...]

That’s the jist of this pretty illuminating post on The Illadelph, wondering why, at this late date, Philly has no answer whatsoever to NYC’s Soho House. It’s a question we find ourselves asking roughly a dozen times over each summer, when the heat/humidity index in Philly reaches the point where you can’t even get drunk [...]

To us, he’s a Cute Boy Alert alumnus (and so much more); but to many, he was Pennsylvania’s next great progressive Senator. And who knows, he still could be. But it’d most likely have to be after Arlen Specter does whatever evil bidding he, the Democratic Party and Governor Ed Rendell have cooked up. Point [...]

A reader sends is this, er, stool sample, allegedly seen in the Inquirer newsroom. If you look closely, though, you can see a slightly disturbing smudge which could suggest that some end-of-his-rope staffer might have actually phantom-shat there. Which would be a lot more in line with the Inky we know and are now prevented [...]

Because, as you no doubt know, Craigslist finally decided (with a little help from the long arm of the law) to take down its “erotic services” category. (Don’t worry, lovers of deep tissue massage — Craigslist says they’ll have a new, pre-screened “legit” category going up soon.) However, ye olde original Erotic Services postings are [...]

>>> Are you sad that, sometime over the last five years, Cat Power took both the “indie” and the “rock” out of the genre that gave her life? Fear not: We’ve been listening to new tracks by Drag City’s Azita, and what you will find there is everything you’ve been missing from Ms. Chan Marshall [...]

· Local 44’s Locals-Only Beer Weekend · Shoofly Pie, A Shoo-in For Tourism? · Piazza At Schmidts: Restaurant Roundup · Brewerytown: Art, And Soul All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

PhillyEdge reports that Philadelphia Park Casino in Bensalem is currently gloating that it’s gonna get a flashy, dignified new name soon that doesn’t include that dirty, icky word “Philadelphia” and that this 4th of July, they’re going to have an even better fireworks display than Philly does! Now, there’s only one way that both of [...]

>>> Hey, remember the time Camel drew a map of all the indie rock bands in the world, all over Rolling Stone magazine, in some kind of “Hey wait up CIGARETTES ARE STILL COOL YOU UNGRATEFUL ASSHOLES!” freakout? A Philadelphia judge has finally said that, yes, this was pretty much illegal. Phew. [Pitchfork] >>> Fresh [...]

This is one is so much up our own alley that it has the potential to be up nobody else’s, but what the hell: Liechtenstein (pictured) are a three-piece all-girl band from Sweden that bring to mind nothing so much as England’s C-86 scene, founded on pegged jeans, shambolic guitar pop and unisex haircuts. (See [...]