PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In an ongoing effort to align itself with highly-regarded professional sports organizations, Tasty Baking Company (NasdaqGM: TSTY), makers of the Tastykake((R)) snack line, today announced a multi-year, multi-platform marketing alliance with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tastykake will join with the Steelers in a broad program, highlighted by co-branded products; radio, print [...]

Alright, dudes and dudettes — or “readers” if you’re into the whole brevity thing — we’ve got full pairs of weekend passes to Lebowski Fest Philadelphia, both tonight’s concert and screening at the Electric Factory and tomorrow’s bowling party at North Bowl — and we’re looking to hook you up. To enter to win, email [...]

You know, you get a tip like this — that Mayor Michael Nutter fully closed down the bar (and then some) at North Third two nights ago — and there’s not a hell of a lot you can do with it. In all likelihood, a follow-up call will confirm absolutely nothing and frankly, having it [...]

Says our #1 Train And Trolley Expert: “Kind of a neat animation of the proposed light rail route and connector options for Delaware Ave. Note that it turns around at Penn Treaty Park. Apparently, there’s no decision yet on whether PATCO or SEPTA would operate the line.”

Says Joe: “A secret handshake, and soon euphoria.” More –including hi-res, printable poster-size versions of Joe’s work — at his blog. Previously: From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: Lesson #1 In Becoming A Fine Artist. From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: City Inlet From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: Be Kind, Lest We Rewind From [...]

We’re doing normal people things this morning and as such are not shackled to the tips feed. Your regularly scheduled Philebrity should be ready very shortly. Good stuff today, too. We promise.

>>> At “Laid Off Looking For Love,” “join us as several sexy singles, both men and women, will be auctioned off, as ACTION NEWS Ch. 6 ABC’s meteorologist ERICA GROW emcees the event”; or, if that is not your particular cup of modern degradation, try that Shmitten Kitten speed dating thing where they play Jimmy [...]

Fuck you, Fleet Foxes, because New Brunswick’s own Screaming Females are reminding us today of everything awesome about being young. They play Pi Lam tomorrow night with likewise awesome acts Free Energy and Brown Recluse. But this post is not about those bands. This post is about Screaming Females. If you are over 30, we [...]

Animal-cruelty charges dropped against Burlington County cop By JASON NARK Philadelphia Daily News narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231 If animals could talk, a few cows in Burlington County might ask state legislators to hurry up and outlaw bestiality. THE NARKMAN STRIKES AGAIN! You know, come to think of it, we also like that his phone number is right [...]

· The Search For Umami · It’s The Great Pumpkin, Standard Tap! Plus: Multiplicity! · Oktoberfest Roundup All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

One concerned reader — who really does good work for a living — writes: The current PA proposed budget includes a $16.1 million cut of funds for tobacco cessation and prevention. These are not taxpayer monies–they are funds from the Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco companies. The PA state government (perhaps Rendell himself, it’s [...]

Five young men clad in oxford played the TLA last night and casually rocked the shit out of the joint. The Walkmen played a breathtaking two hours of new material and familiar jams; and suffice it to say that the new album is going to kick ass. Periodically throughout the show the band was accompanied [...]

Here’s 2007, and here is 2008. Never forget.

Seriously, dude, what the fuck. And Charlie! It’s time to radically think your whole closer theory, man. You got some stinkin’ thinkin’ there. And finally: What the fuck is it about these blown saves that makes whatever team that gets over on Lidge all run out onto the field and play grabass like they all [...]

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s fabulous Spruce/Pine bike lanes being opened up comes even bigger bike lane news: Various counties in PA and NJ, all surrounding the Philadelphia area, have collaborated on a $36M grant proposal to form a “multi-use trail network” that would connect the Schuylkill River Trail, East Coast Greenway and Camden [...]

Here’s the thing about the Gotcha Culture that persists in most political discourse today: It only works if you care (or pretend to care) about the one who got you. So when ACORN responded to the now-infamous GOP pimp-and-ho sting that is now your uncle’s sterling example of how the blacks and the poors are [...]

We begin today with a question: If Great Depression 2.0 isn’t economically depressing enough to tank plans for the Sugarhouse casino on Delaware Avenue, then why in the hell did we even bother to have it in the first place? After a few months in which it looked like Sugarhouse was having the same kinds [...]

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>>> I have a seven-inch record of “In The New Year” by The Walkmen that I picked up about six months ago. Lately, when no one is around, I turn it up until the turntable almost feeds back in the speakers, pace the room, and wait for hope to arrive. I shit you not: It [...]

Oh God, Sticky. That’s just awful. Hey everybody, I know what could cheer Sticky up right now! How about POETRY? Haikus, limericks, free verse, whatever. Do your thing. We’ll get it started: HAIKU FOR STICKY I’m no cat person And I’ve even wished cats dead But that’s just too fucking much. Now you! In the [...]