Get more at youtube.com/user/edlover4real, and say goodbye to the next three hours of your life. Hat tip to Philadelphyinz. NOTE: Contains coarse language.

From “A Modern Answer to the Commune,” in yesterday’s NYT: [...]Three roommates already had their house, a funky Victorian in the Cedar Park neighborhood, but needed five more. Their advertisement on Craigslist ran to two pages when printed out and contained all sorts of buzz words that had been chosen, said its authors, reached by [...]

Our Art Listings at philebrity.com/firstfriday are fresh and waiting for you… And also check out philebrity.com/POST this month for picks from Philadelphia Open Studio Tours…

Well, at least we can all know that somewhere, there’s some rich jerkoff for whom community and architectural history is merely a casual annoyance, and he is, for the moment, satisfied. Total bummer video after the jump.

If you don’t already have an opinion on whether or not the Barnes Foundation should be in Philadelphia proper, you will after reading this post. At right is Harry Sefarbi, an artist and teacher who worked at the Barnes for over fifty-five years, and is perhaps the oldest gentleman to be the vulnerable target of [...]

Hat tip to supersleuth Sean Agnew for this one.

Oh, God: I don’t feel so good. UPDATE: Gawker handicaps possible outcomes of said rumored merger, which Comcast is trying to crush and GE is saying, well, maybe?

Yesterday, two real-life Radio City Rockettes — in town to promote The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which will be held for two nights in December at the Wachovia Center — arrived on the Art Museum steps in the hopes of leading Philadelphia’s largest-ever kickline. A couple of things went wrong. First, while the Wach promised [...]

ATVs have become an increasing menace in Philadelphia. You can feel about these the same way you feel about people carrying handguns on the street: How the hell did it even begin? At 5:30PM on Tuesday night in West Philly (39th and Poplar), a twenty-two-year-old rider was clipped by a van and lost control of [...]

Even if you’re an N.W.A. guy and not, say, a KRS-One guy, here’s why Michael Vick‘s re-upped deal with Nike sucks.

If you’re an old Commerce Bank customer, you probably already know this: TD Bank basically blows. The Toronto-based bank acquired Commerce last year, but it wasn’t until last weekend that TD attempted to integrate its own banking system with the old (and apparently perfectly functional) Commerce one. And then, everything went to hell: Deposits were [...]