This much we know: The people want — demand, even — a definitive Phils ’09 post-season fight song, and even with Game 1 of the World Series set to start in a matter of hours, there has yet to be a settled-upon consensus. Let’s review the candidates, shall we? “Ill State Of Mind,” Neeko featuring [...]

LET’S GET PSYCHED, PHILLY! Since we posted the first Black Taco slideshow, we’ve heard from a lot more of you, and boy, do you people ever not value your day jobs. After the jump, the next round, in slideshow form set, of course, to “Ill State Of Mind.” Let’s go Phillies!

For those of you that missed it on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, here are some of the things that are on ?uestlove‘s mind.

Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about two things: The Brain Drain and, yes, how much New York sucks. These issues go together like peanut butter and chocolate in this NY Post story today which reveals that, however bad we perceive the Brain Drain to be here, New York’s got it much worse. From 2000 [...]

Well, here’s a shocker: Philadelphia Newspapers LLC‘s senior lenders have scoffed at a deal proffered by the company to wipe out $300M of debt in exchange for a paltry $87M. As a result, the auction date holds for the PNI properties on November 18th, a day that will surely live in infamy in Philadelphia media [...]

With the rain set to finally let up tomorrow so we can all get back to some sweet, sweet Simon & Garfunkel-esque autumnal walking in the city, ApartmentTherapy reminds us that, as a leftover from DesignPhiladelphia, those awesome C.H. Briggs Corian Bench Inventions are still stationed at various locales throughout the city. The benches, made [...]

Bill Cosby has not aged gently. There’s been the sex scandal; the rambling, often incoherent lecture tours; and often, just the sense that here is a man whose entire world has gotten away from him. And that, friends, is a damned shame. It is a kind of common knowledge among Hollywood types that the worst [...]

This poor woman. Her face plastered all over the evening news, so that The Good People Of The Delaware Valley can tut-tut and malevolently cluck in her direction over dinner. And for what? Beyond the obvious notion that, in the face of violent killings on the streets and other things that actually hurt people, local [...]

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>>> It’s Tuesday, so it must be… Tonight marks the return of barman Anders Larson, and he was kind enough to send us tonight’s cocktail menu. It is as follows: NEGRONI: Welcome, Hearty Castillians, back to the Salon. Let us start with this, named after the Italian Count Negroni, who is famous only for this [...]

Alright, goofs, we’ve been collecting your Black Taco photoshops for another week now, and tomorrow, we’re gonna post all the new ones. If you’ve got one to add, send it in overnight to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com, and we’ll include it. And obviously, FEEL FREE TO DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO THE YANKEES. We harbor no illusions of [...]

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Philadelphia’s own Lee Daniels, producer of such controversial and dark films as The Woodsman starring Kevin Bacon playing a convicted sex offender, and Monsters Ball which starred Halle Berry, has made a new film which has been garnering huge praise as well as awards at the Sundance, Cannes, New York and Toronto Film Festivals, to [...]

It’s usually right around this time of year when we start hearing of White-O-Ween, a shameful local tradition in which some subsection of Philly’s Noble White Prole populace deems an alternative Halloween in which white children can trick or treat in a (traditionally white) neighborhood, free of the fear that children of other races will [...]

Gents, we hear they’re looking for a replacement for the ShamWow guy, too. Also, have you considered other seasonal work, like selling Christmas trees or running the outdoor Phillies giftshop at York and Aramingo?

Oh For Shame! The sanctity of this year’s Inky-Sponsored National Sudoku Tournament has (maybe) been violated by a New Jersey man accused of cheating! Eugene Varshavsky, HOW COULD YOU!? Varshavsky, originally a walk-up contestant, left with the $3000 third place prize, not to mention the nerd honor of meeting Will Shortz. It was only later [...]

Doesn’t it seem like a gagillion years ago that Kari Farrell, The Hipster Grifter, permeated our thoughts and actions and THE VERY AIR THAT WE BREATHE? Time truly does fly when you’re making Black Taco photoshops. Anyway, Kari wrote a hundred-kinds-of-kiss-assy letter to Animal NY, and, well, here’s the bad news: She could be out [...]

Hey Vespa/Harley enthusiast! Wondering how in the hell you just got a $76 ticket for parking your ride the same way you always do? That’s because your friends and ours, The Motherfucking Goddamned Philadelphia Dickbag Parking Authority, are now ticketing motorcycles and scooters which are parked in the same way they have been for years: [...]

The local high-profile Buddhist Monk, Venerable Losang Samten, has announced that he will be creating a Kalachakra Mandala through the end of October and well into November at the Gershman Y. Mandalas are intricate images that are painstakingly sculpted out of grains of sand before being destroyed. In March, 2008 Samten was the first to [...]

In case you haven’t seen it yet, this is the lead story in today’s New York Post. Mmmhmm. And you know, homophobia is rampant in professional sports and all, and it’s one of those lame parts of our shared culture that just is, but real talk: Is there a team in all of Major League [...]