On Monday, October 5th, Philadelphia will lay eyes on Brazilian Tropicalia/psych rock legends Os Mutantes in what we assume will be their first ever live performance here. As you may know, Os Mutantes were one of the key acts of the politically subversive/totally amazing and awesome Tropicalia movement in the 1960s, and have recently reunited [...]

Taped in 1987 at the late, great Bacchanal on South St. Old weird Philly, you’re coming back to us so fast we can almost smell it.

Part of us thinks this has gotta be some kind of cosmic comeuppance for what Razorfish did on the Philly.com “built-for-kids!” redesign, but whatever: Razorfish and Digitas are about to share a common corporate overlord, Publicis Groupe, which is based in Paris and sounds like something dirty. Publicis is on board to buy Razorfish for [...]

Not making this up: Michael Smerconish‘s finely chiseled, weird ass will be seated IN THE MOTHERFUCKING WHITE HOUSE tomorrow for a live broadcast interview with President Barack Obama, ostensibly to talk about health care, while Smerconish sends secret code messages that stimulate the erogenous zones of Birthers, Deathers and people with Norfeast Philly accents/speech impediments. [...]

>>> Damn, it’s getting musty in here. Did I remember to take my Zyrtec this morning? No matter, here’s what you need to know: Mark your calendars for August 31. That’s gonna be a big day for this Inky/Daily News mess in an unholy, twin-pronged kind of way. On this day, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. has [...]

Just months after signing another groundbreaking Philly artist Kurt Vile comes the news that legendary indie label Matador Records has signed the Philly-based dark synth pop duo Cold Cave. Cold Cave, whom we just tipped off last week in this post about three great local late-summer releases, broke the news yesterday on their MySpace blog, [...]

Says Joe: . . . or “Deconstructing the Sports Metaphor” In tribute to the glory of man and his beasts. Hi, that’s me in the upper-left hand corner, or should I say, outer left field. See you in the pit, Joe Boruchow Brother, you are on a roll. More –including hi-res, printable poster-size versions of [...]

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What we love, and have loved for years, about WXPN program director Bruce Warren (pictured) is how he’s built a career on simultaneously understanding the grotesquely stupid and arcane way the music industry works (or at least, used to work and now tries to), while somehow remaining to be a deeply committed fan to new [...]

>>> Remember the guy we were talking about yesterday who got fired by the Philadelphia DoucheBeagles for daring to lament the loss of Brian Dawkins on Facebook? He wants his job back, and he’s going to shame the damned birds into giving it back via 610 WIP. Awesome. Good on you, son. [KYW] >>> The [...]

· Hawk Krall’s Hot Dog High Art · Indian Summer Eats And Treats at Tiffin, Etc. · You Wish You Had This Dish: Yellow Submarine Cookies From Whipped Bakeshop All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

To be honest with you, we’re already bored with talking about how Major Lazer is kind of dumb. So let’s just let the commenters on Kayne West’s blog do it. Eric from Tim & Eric directed their newest clip.

So, Vince Fumo‘s attorneys are requesting two strange and possibly portentous things: A delay in his prison reporting date, and that all of Fumo’s health records on file be sealed. This can only be for two reasons: One, they think The Vince might die soon — Fumo’s been suffering from cardiac problems for a while [...]

Oh church and state, when are you crazy kids going to learn to get along? More importantly – when will you stay out of our fashion? This week, a French Muslim woman was banned from her local pool because she was wearing a head-to-toe swimsuit called a “Burquini.” (That’s a portmanteau of Burqa and bikini). Officials [...]

Yesterday, we noted that Mayor was set to announce citywide budget cuts to be made as a result of the PA State Budget‘s continuing lag. Later in the day, the Mayor’s Office released their cuts, slated to begin immediately. The following numbers are gleaned from that list. · Amount saved by the delay of the [...]

We’d be remiss if we didn’t say that, throughout this whole Michael Vick thing, Chase and Jen Utley have been on our minds. After all, the Utleys are basically the anti-Vick. Whereas Vick has splattered blood and shit all over sports fans, the media, the NFL and, to be sure, his own reputation, the Utleys [...]

On Noontime Nuggetz a week or two ago, we took a walk through legendary Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar‘s Magic Garden, a meandering collage of a space that, like much of the mosaics he’s created in his longtime South Street neighborhood, stands as his life’s work. That life’s work is about to get a much broader [...]

Note: If you’re seeing broken code, blame Action News and Microsoft, not us. A big moral issue facing Philadelphians that has nothing to do with dog-fighting and sports: For the second time this summer, vigilante justice is making headlines. This weekend, a West Philadelphia woman was raped early in the morning while waiting for her [...]

To be sure, the Eagles’ signing of that convicted Hitler of Puppies, Michael Vick, last week has brought on such a firestorm of controversy that it is now shaking other past Philly sports controversies loose from their positions in the dormant soil of Old News Cycles Gone By. At the heart of these debates is [...]