Yeah yeah, it’s Thursday and payday’s not until tomorrow. But tonight at 7pm for only five bucks, you can party like a rockstar at Fishtown’s latest gallery addition: Porkchop. This amazing space is the brainchild of local artists Robert Aiosa and Schuyler Blanchard. Tonight’s event is in celebration of Porkchop’s grand opening. With the trapeze [...]

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All this summer, we have had the unique pleasure of playing host to a young guy who is honestly one of the most devoted, hard-working and intelligent interns we’ve ever had. His name is Danny Dougherty, and today is his last day. (Although he may stay on as our Pennsyltucky correspondent.) While grinding out posts [...]

You may already hate Katy Perry for her crimes against Actual Lesbians everywhere and in your private moments, you have realized that these crimes shall be addressed when she meets her maker, if not by the time she makes her third album. But Philly fashion icon Nicole Miller is feeling the burn of whatever Perry [...]

Says our reader: “Hey guys. Last night I saw the actor Domenick Lombardozzi at Ladder 15. He played the character “Herc” on The Wire and also “Dom” on Entourage. He told me he was in town shooting a movie with Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson.” Which makes us wonder about a couple of things: Are [...]

We do a lot of things in Philly. We boo Santa Claus. We kill each other in the parking lot. We say “wooder.” But we don’t — I repeat, DON’T — throw beers on Shane Victorino. Image via — and complete play-by-play — at The Fightins. On the plus side, we totally spanked the Cubs [...]

When we last pondered the prospect of Tony Danza — star of TV’s Who’s The Boss and man for whom we just made the Philebrity dot only as big as it needed to be — the tenor of the discussion leaned towards: Really? See, what brings Tony to Philly is the prospect of an A&E [...]

My parents religiously watch the show Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel not because they like ghost hunting, but because the host of the show is such a D-Bag that it’s entertaining. I was watching the other weekend and he reminded me a lot of your favorite person, Arthur Kade. Below is a clip of this [...]

Mike Newall has a riveting (if all-too-short) piece today in Philadelphia Weekly on the opening hearings last week for the three men held in connection with the savage beating and murder of 22-year-old David Sale, Jr. outside of a Phillies game last month. In it, we learn all kinds of stuff that is alternately heartbreaking [...]

It’s about that time of year again, when the door begins to close on summer, and a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of wandering out into a field of banjos, patchouli, and the deep, abiding sense that Baby Boomers had something more righteous and true than our generation will ever know. (Fun fact: This [...]

A reader sent us the above photo of this recently-defaced statue of legendary Philadelphian tycoon Stephen Girard outside the Philadelphia Museum Of Art. And you may be wondering why, at this late stage in the game (Girard died in 1831), anyone would still have beef with the man. As it turns out, there’s a pretty [...]

The recent news of Mayor Nutter‘s threatening “Doomsday Budget” and its proposed “infrequent trash collection” made us shudder, thinking back on a particularly dark and smelly chapter in our city’s history: The year was 1986. The average high temperature in The City Of Brotherly Love in July was around 86 degrees. Philadelphia was still reeling [...]

Gary “Sarge” Matthews, our favorite living baseball broadcaster probably in the world, did the honors at the seventh inning stretch last night at Wrigley Field during a 12-inning battle of wills that the Phils eventually won against the Cubs, 4-3. Other than J-Roll’s two-run homer and Ben Francisco‘s winning run, this was the best part. [...]

Fresh off topical masterworks like Be Courteous and Canine Fecal Death Act comes Philly cutout artist Joe Boruchow latest. “The mother of depravity and her two devil’s spawn,” he says. “I call it… ‘CITY INLET.’ Mind you don’t throw that trash down the sewer now! It drains to your soul.” Enjoy more of Joe’s work [...]

For about a year now, we’ve been hearing rumblings from the general direction of Alec Ounsworth‘s home studio in Conshohocken that this Flashy Python thing was real, and that it’d be out soon. (That’s what she said.) Welp, it’s true — hitting streets well before Ounsworth’s solo debut, the band seems to have quietly released [...]

If you’ve been watching MSNBC at all this week, you know that — thanks to the Deathers, and to a slightly lesser extent, the Birthers — much of the discourse in Thinking America right now is about how bad the state of discourse in Dumb America is right now. Now, the Deathers really dotted the [...]

Hey, America! Politics got you down these days? Mystified by the Birthers, and just saddened by the Deathers, and wondering when the hell Sarah Palin is gonna get off her duff and do something exciting again? US TOO! And while we know it isn’t much, it is something: Psycho crybaby bitch/native PA son Rick Santorum [...]

(REPORT) On Sunday, 08/09/09, 4:40 PM, a male and female were observed using chalk to write on the steps of the synagogue, 418 Spruce St. the #s “666″ and “Hate Satan”. The offenders were described as #1-white male, 20′s, unshaven, wearing a dark T-shirt, with cut off sleeves, carrying a skateboard, #2-white female, 20′s, scruffy [...]

>>> Real talk: Do The Noisettes exist at this point simply because Amy Winehouse will never, ever be allowed into America again? That’s not a diss — I just feel strong, strong marketing forces at work here, forces that are larger than you and I are, and which may not have much to do with [...]

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