And it’s going to be at 1607 Walnut, which is funny, because that will mean the 1600 block of Walnut Street will form a trifecta of the world’s most over-educated and annoying retail employees. Between Urban Outfitters up the street and American Apparel right next door, this block will finally become the Bermuda Triangle of [...]

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Contrary to what a quick survey of your favorite homeless people, with their refrigerator boxes and soiled couches, would lead you to belive, street furniture is not the discarded remains of old apartments and dead relationships. Rather, it’s the stuff, usually put there by the local governing body, that populates the pavement: Bus shelters, benches, [...]

Let us face this simple fact: In all likelihood, you have a better chance of catching a SEPTA bus today than mustering up whatever it takes to care about this Election Day. But still, democracy trudges on. Here in Philadelphia, the only race a reasonable person could be expected to watch is one that will [...]

BIKE THE STRIKE Commuters Can Bike During a SEPTA Strike PHILADELPHIA – November 3, 2009 – The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia urges SEPTA travelers to bike instead of driving. Commuters who bike will win out over those stuck in traffic jams of epic proportions.”Avoid the crush and bike the strike,” says Alex Doty, Executive [...]

>>> Oh, hi! Did you make to work OK today? Isn’t it nice outside? How are you fee– oh, what’s that? The man above staring at you? He’s making you feel intimidated? Oh, don’t worry, that’s just good old Mario Edney, who threw a SEPTA patron off of a bus a few years ago. And [...]

Strike begins at 3AM. Feel free to use the comments here as a rideshare board.

· But first, let’s talk some shit about Cole Hamels. Pick which one of the following quotes is real: “We’re in the process of adopting [A BLACK TACO]. Maybe two. I’m so pumped. I’d adopt six if I could. When I was five years old—I grew up in a very rural town in Missouri, and I [...]

Here’s the thing: Over the weekend, the story of a threat of a SEPTA strike in the middle of the World Series went national; CNN, AP, LA Times, and on and on. This was the precise moment when these knuckleheads should have gone on strike, if they truly wanted to smear shit all over the [...]

We’ve mentioned this before, and we are not afraid to say it: GIRLS are the best new band we’ve heard in months. They first came to our attention over the summer with the video for “Hellhole Ratrace”, and since we got an advance of their debut full-length, Album, suffice it to say that this one [...]

Perhaps you groggily walked with a post-Halloween night cup of coffee down to Chestnut and 18th street yesterday to take advantage of an art-liquidation sale: Freeman’s auctioning off the first part of the Lehman Bros. print collection. Among the works that sold were I Love Liberty (pictured), a 1982 print of the Statue of Liberty [...]

The Gaboon Viper is “the world’s heaviest viperid and it has the longest fangs and the highest venom yield of any venomous snake.” The one above is waiting for you at the Philadelphia Zoo, where it will invariably try to talk you into getting a tattoo of its own likeness.

Not sure if anybody else saw this on the back page of Section A in this morning’s Inky (not that we did, either, but you know, people tell us things): Owch. Don’t worry, though, Inky brass are ready to fall on that grenade. Just posted to Philly.com: A message to our readers November 2, 2009 [...]

Remember last year, when we all had visions of a Philly Bike Share dancing in our heads? Well, as the Bike Share Philadelphia folks gather steam, they may want to take a look at Paris for examples of what not to do. In this piece in Saturday’s NYT, we learn that, out of the 20,600 [...]

We’re hearing various reports today that sometime late on Halloween night, a man walked into The Fire at 4th and Girard, pulled out a gun, and killed himself. When called this morning, a source at the The Fire gave us a solemn and sad “no comment.” Know something? Send your reports to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. UPDATE: We [...]

1. If you need Agnew to talk to the cops — he’s an old pro at this — for maximum hilarity, please make sure that he is wearing a fairly authentic Jesus costume. It tends to lighten the situation, as well as provide grand metaphors. (Photo credit: John Paul Titlow.) 2. We didn’t think we’d [...]

Effective on Friday, the 941 Theater in Northern Liberties shut its doors. The theater, which opened a couple of years ago and has since provided a cheap and valuable service to filmmakers, musicians and artists of other stripes, announced its (hopefully temporary) closure, citing a host of L&I violations and subsequent fines. According to our [...]