While we slumbered, a kind reader sent us in a link to this Nerve post about something we never knew we needed until just now: A bicycle blender. You know, for daiquiris. That we can drink while we look out the window, upon our Fishtown Beachfront Property on York St. While we think about posts [...]

Oh, hello. We’ve taken the morning off to enjoy coffee and breezes. But we’ll be back after lunch with a merciless pounding of posts both relevant and not to your life and the beautiful world that surrounds you. See you soon!

>>> So, did James Joyce like jazz? Funny you should ask, as we were just wondering the same thing. Tonight brings us the Bloomsday Edition of Philebrity Salon @ 700 (Second & Fairmount), beginning right after the Phillies game. Turns out, Joyce may have not liked jazz, but he did jazz: “Ragging the literary instrument,” [...]

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The FDA has made a recommendation that consumers stop using three Zicam products (Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and the discontinued Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size) because in addition to annihilating your cold, they can also destroy your sense of smell. Permanently. After just one use! Many people would [...]

Today sees the release of Major Lazer‘s debut long-player, Gunz Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do. But just to get to the point where we could type out that simple sentence about the new collab between Diplo and Switch took about a half an hour of research; we’ve got an inbox crammed so full of emails [...]

Here is the latest in the long saga of How The Metro Became The Only Daily Newspaper In Philadelphia, or, The Brian Tierney Pentagram Of Doom: Fuck ‘Em If They Can’t Take A Joke Edition. Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.‘s creditors — who already threw their dicks out on the table and said, “Hey Philly, we can [...]

You know, part of the nice thing about everybody being broke as a joke all at the same time is that, suddenly, everyone can finally have a group hug and acknowledge the fact that there are beautiful things in the world none of us will ever, ever have. Take, for instance, 814-16 Pine Street. You’ve [...]

Fact: Camera Obscura are one of the cutest bands in the world, and we love them for so many obvious reasons. This Scottish group recently released My Maudlin Career, which is easily their strongest record to date, picking up where The Concretes left off and Peter, Bjorn & John could never quite get to. We’re [...]

“Duffy’s Cut” refers to the storied mass grave site of 57 Irish workers who died near the present-day site of Immaculata College in the mid-1800s. Irish folksinger Christy Moore performs this track, about the affair, on his most recent album, Listen. Christy also does a version of the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” that gets [...]

1. Bloomsday, of course, is the annual celebration of the life and work of James Joyce, with specific regard to Ulysses, which you probably tell people you’ve read front to back but in fact have not. Anyway, Bloomsday is today. 2. Bloomsday is a huge, huge deal, of course, in Joyce’s native Dublin — if [...]

Tell the truth: Before you lost your job (or began living in abject fear and dread and hope that you may soon lose your job), you went to the park less. You probably hadn’t flown a kite in years. You read less. You didn’t play as many games, you didn’t spend as much quality time [...]

Today at 2PM outside the Roundhouse, Mayor Michael Nutter, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and assorted other City bosses will gather to announce just how the City of Philadelphia will be spending $13.5 million in Byrne Grant Program money, a Dept. of Justice grant program that just had a major pump-up as part of the Federal [...]

Hey, remember when The Franklin Institute went and started trying to make everyone call it simply “The Franklin” because they paid Red Tettemer a whole bunch of money to “re-brand” the museum that singlehandedly made your childhood fun as something “hip” and “with-it?” Dear God, that was painful, kind of like those scenes in Mean [...]

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>>> Norse post-post-punk-post-punk-revival chanteuse Ida Maria (pictured) plays the North Star Bar. Now, yes, she’s got that song “Better When You’re Naked” that sounds like it was conceived in whole to be used as bed music for MTV between-show teasers and Duel II montage clips, but there’s a rawness and a realness here that’s a [...]

Six Flags — parent corporation, of course, to our beloved/beloathed Great Adventure — just declared bankruptcy, leaving the exact fate of the Creepy Bald Guy uncertain for quite some time. That’s not exactly how we imagined him going out, but hell, we’ll take it.

So I was walking down Sansom Street Friday afternoon, and I see this.. I know its kinda small, but if I got any closer I would’ve been even more horrified than I already was. YES. It’s a shirtless dude by a fence. YES. He’s getting some type of glamour-shots done. And FUCK YES. He’s wearing [...]

So, The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Panama Canal Authority (A Man, A Plan, A Canal – Panama!) got together and are trying to figure out how to make money off giant containers coming from Asia to Philadelphia. Other than that simple fact hopefully having given everyone working in the Dept. Of Homeland Security [...]

That’s Kelly Dugan at right, the Phils’ 1st pick in the 2nd round Major League Baseball draft this year. Dugan just got out of high school — here’s his stats — and signed with the Phils, opting to blow off college and get upwards of $480K per year in the process. (Let that be a [...]