RECOMMENDED: You don’t necessarily think “period piece” when you think of director Michael Mann — who’s better known for making period pieces (like Miami Vice or Heat) which concern the period he’s in — but with Public Enemies, he’s made a movie about crime and punishment and the popular imagination in the first half of [...]

The Philadelphia Theater Company and improv comedy legends Second City are putting on a summer comedy series titled City of Nutterly Love: Funny as Bell. That title is so clever we can’t think of anyone crafty enough to sculpt a gem like that, except maybe Michael Nada himself. After all, he did steal the show [...]

Just ask Gervase or Toastee: When you’re done smiling on reality/contest TV, the whole world is done smiling with or at you. And yeah, Philly native Justin Guarini has done better than most in his uniquely modern predicament, but nothing will ever change the fact that the world is done with him now, he went [...]

We’ve often remarked on this site how, in so many ways, City Paper, bless its soul, is/has been/might always be irretrievably stuck in the 1990s. Now, a large portion of this is tied to the alt-weekly medium itself — few alt-weeklies nationwide have been successful in bringing themselves into The New Overwhelming (And Often Horrible) [...]

Yewe nevar knowe what’s gownna hahppen. It’s diffurrunt everey noight. [Via Jezebel via FourFour]

City magazines: They’re the new newspapers! Hot off the news of the Boston magazine layoffs and the awkward insertion of PhillyMag editor Larry Platt (pictured) up there — awkward insertion is pretty much the name of the game at Herb Lipson‘s Philadelphia and Boston magazines — there’s a big story in The Boston Globe today [...]

Because some of you have off on Friday and some of you have off on Monday and some have both and we know you only read us at work anyway (unless you’re unemployed, in which case, you should already be laying out somewhere) and we’ll be “working” all day on Saturday, Philebrity will be taking [...]

You know, I think everyone went to lunch. I could just get up and walk away from this right now, and go to Provincetown and open up that little bistro just like I always dreamed. [Gets up.] Oh, shit, I’m naked. I think someone’s coming. I better sit back down. Shit. Can you hear something [...]

By now, you might have seen the story about how your friend and ours, The Philadelphia Parking Authority, has decided to hold off on raising parking meter rates from $2 to $3 per hour, as if the PPA was some kind of benevolent being that wants you to patronize businesses in the city and doesn’t [...]

The American Revolution Center — a museum that will celebrate this country’s fight for independence in its all of its tri-cornered glory — has ditched plans to construct in Valley Forge and will instead develop at 3rd & Chestnut Sts. The folks behind the ARC argue that learning about America’s earliest days is as important [...]

You know, for some of us, this whole recession thing is really, really working out: We’re reading more, we’re riding our bikes more, we’re getting familiar with all the stuff the city affords a broke person (like parks, people-watching and so on), and we’re just generally becoming more like actual people than we were when [...]

>>> In case you were wondering, yes, we totally meant everything we said about The Church yesterday. At right, “Already Yesterday,” another deep cut from the 1986 Heyday album that we’ve been digging so much. Sigh. They’re at The Troc, in case you were wondering. >>> Like deviled eggs? Like, do you like them a [...]

Even when my brains were eggs benedict, after they took me off the morphine, I recognized that that little pill they were giving me in moderation made me forget that my head had been cut open, my shoulder crushed and two vertebrae broken. In fact, I felt like I could do The Worm. After the [...]

Tito, get us a tissue: Gamble & Huff have kicked their PR machine into high gear to jump all over the MJ story, promising the world some never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson and family working with the legendary Philly producers. Which is kind of jive, but whatever. Above, The Jacksons (including fathermonster Joe) hang tough [...]

HOLY SHIT. What originally started out as our stellar lineup for the 2nd Street Festival back on June 20 (but postponed due to rain) has now evolved into THEE FOURTH OF JULY PARTY THAT YOU NEED TO BE AT. New to the bill: Black Landlord, The Capitol Years and The Photon Band, performing the legendary [...]

You’ve seen the trailer. You’ve witnessed the over-the-top promotional stunts. You’ve heard all about the controversy. The buzz has now reached maximum volume. Admit it: Your inner tastemaker/cultural critic simply has to find out if Bruno lives up to the hype. Rest assured, Sacha Baron Cohen’s gay Austrian TV reporter character has grown increasingly outlandish [...]

New TV spot for GPTMC’s “With Love, Philadelphia XOXO” Campaign.

Our buddy Mike Fleming just sent us this snap of The Thinker move-in-progress. Something about seeing this guy, deep in thought, next to a dumpster kinda brings it all together, doesn’t it? Previously: Nobody Freak Out, The Thinker Hasn’t Been Stolen

If you listen to the wind, you can hear whole chunks of Port Richmond hoarding pills right now. Because yes, Virgina, it’s true: If the FDA heeds its own advice — and why wouldn’t it, unless pharmaceutical companies had like a huge Washington lobby to to chant it down, and that would never happen — [...]

World Team Tennis is kind of like the Arena Football of the tennis world, only with lots more Billie Jean King (she’s the league commissioner) and Elton John (he hangs out, wrote the theme song for the original Philadelphia Freedeoms back in 1975; maybe you’ve heard it). Anyway, the WTT ’09 season starts tomorrow, and [...]