We cannot tell a lie: The New Time are one of our favorite new local bands. This is the just-completed video for “Mississippi Halfstep,” off the band’s An Incomplete History EP, which was produced by The Brothers Bloom composer Nathan Johnson. You can download the track ”Neutral Milk Hotel,” off that same EP, here.

Here’s the story from KYW-1060.com: http://www.kyw1060.com/Irish-Flagship–em-Eithne–em–Docks-at-Penn-s-Lan/4799941 Below is the story behind the ship’s name. She was named after an Irish mythological figure, which I think is much cooler than our country’s practice of naming ships after mythological presidents: http://www.military.ie/naval/flotilla/p31/eithne.htm No word yet if “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash” will be blasted from the ship’s PA [...]

“Stymied” isn’t even the word for what we are by Paul Schlear (pictured), a local man who’s currently being investigated for impersonating a priest at several recent funerals for fallen Philadelphia Police officers, and perhaps even stranger, recently donning clerical garb at the hospital bedside of Officer Richard Hayes, who was critically injured by a [...]

The It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia gang just dropped a bunch of Season 5 sneak peeks on YouTube. Holler. Previously: Season 5 Of Always Sunny Debuts Sept. 17th

1. Every time you ring him up to connect, all he can talk about is how he could have been Rian Thal. Talk about a buzzkill. 2. Even when all you’d like to do is hand him a small pile of twenties in exchange for a bag of whathaveyou, he still insists on using the [...]

Alright, look: We’re pretty much done with Arthur Kade. Now, this doesn’t mean that we’ll never post about him again — eventually, he’s bound to either come out of the closet or get arrested or get beat up, and so on — but in a very general way, our interest has waned. (Although, on his [...]

>>> Perhaps it’s because of summer, the slow news cycle, and recent news, but tell the truth: Has Philly ever been as bicycle-obsessed as it is now? And like every other Philly-grown youth culture obsession, it was only a matter of time before Urban Outfitters swooped in and started up a what? A bike store. [...]

On one hand, we find this juvenile, disrespectful and, okay, kind of a little bit funny. On the other hand, it couldn’t help but remind us that Obama is an ass man, he’s got the Twitter account to prove it, and like Chuck Berry said, it just goes to show you never can tell. Seeing [...]

It’s like this: The motorists of Philadelphia (and the motorists who come here from New Jersey) simply cannot be trusted. Even when their superego is trying like hell to drive around you and be all nice and Whole Foods about it, their ids — those raging, bloodthirsty, pigfucking ids — want to make fruit smoothies [...]

Cops and stupid kids and video cameras on South Street: They go together like Emerson, Lake & Palmer. So when we noticed a video upped to YouTube last night entitled “GREEK WEEK BEATDOWN 2009,” we figured: Oh, it must have been the Greek Picnic this weekend, odd that we didn’t hear from any of our [...]

We’ve been woefully remiss in bringing you any coverage at all so far of the Philadelphia Q Fest, that ill-begotten beast that used to be, what would have been, the 15th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, had it not gotten all chewed up in the awful row between TLA and the Philadelphia Film [...]

Here is the most groanworthy string of words you’ll read all day: “[...] Those able to attend a hastily called meeting Sunday afternoon voted unanimously in support of reinstating the memberships of the Creative Steps day camp and two other camps as long as safety issues, times and terms can be agreed upon.” Just imagine [...]

We’ve been having Nug Dreemz of this one for years, I tell you, years! And it’s every bit as sweet as we remember it. See what people who believe in the power of each other can do, do, do?

Oh, hey, Boo-Boo: Over at Phoodie.info, they’re totally giving away a gourmet picnic basket from Cornerstone Market, to be delivered right to your blanket at Waterfront Wednesdays at Penn Treaty Park, which kicks off this Wednesday.

The world, in case you forgot, is still a vampire. Previously: The Fattest Day Of Summer: There’s Nothing Messed Up About That, No, Seriously, Nothing At All. Really.

I was working part time in the five and dime; my boss was Mr. McGee. I’m here to talk with you today about how much I love the song “Raspberry Beret,” and how it relates to geeks like me. “Raspberry Beret,” if you really break it down, is about confidence, working with what you’ve got, [...]

People, people: How many innocent, seemingly well-intentioned promotional flags, designed by someone somewhere whom you know was very proud of the graphic design skills he or she thought the flags displayed, have to die before we all learn that war is hell? Will it be three? Will it be eight? When will it be enough? [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Is the weather trying to apologize for June? I think so. It’s cool, we forgive you, weather. If we knew in June what you had in store for us now — beautiful breezes, epic skies, gorgeous sunsets — we wouldn’t have gotten so depressed and gotten so wasted all the time. Now, you’re [...]

RECOMMENDED: In the most recent issue of lit mag n+1, film critic A. S. Hamrah engages in a fairly daunting task: He spends two months watching every movie about the War on Terror he can find. What he discovers — and what we in turn discover through him — is that War on Terror movies [...]