Apparently, there used to be a sports bar in the old Lit Brothers building, and if you did enough Jaeger shots, they would videotape you doing Christmas karaoke and let you give the VHS tape to your sad mom who, up until then, was in complete denial about all the men in the family being [...]

OHMYGODIWANTITDADCANIHAVEIT!? Apparently, Rudolf and Donner got a little frisky over their off season, one thing led to another and now, Santa’s got to do with the offspring what any logical Philadelphia-area reindeer farmer would: Sell it on Craigslist. No, seriously, someone is selling a baby reindeer on Craigslist for $7000. I have for sale a [...]

Fans and friends of the late, great Jack Rose may want to take note of the various memorials currently being planned in Jack’s honor this week. Rose passed away on Saturday. He was just 38 years old. Saturday, December 12, 2009 Visitation: 1:00 PM Service: 2:00 PM Visitation and services taking place at: Bringhurst Funeral [...]

Polls is all around, folks: Urb Magazine is rolling out their best of the decade reader’s poll and The Roots are all over it. They’re in the running for are up for Artist of the Decade, Album of the Decade (for Phrenology), and Song of the Decade (for “Star“). The competition is stiff; they’re up [...]

After the December 6 holdup at Citizens Bank (4221 Ferne Blvd., Drexel Hill), a couple of lucky city-paid workers found money literally littering the streets of Upper Darby. A street sweeper collected $3,474 along with its regular collection of garbage and detritus, and a school bus driver spotted $542, doused in red ink, in a [...]

Since we’ve set aside this evening to focus on the winners of the first-ever Philebrity Awards poll — with a big whupdeedoo TONIGHT at the Trocadero, which will raise dough for the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation — but god-damn if who didn’t win was sometimes just as surprising as who did: · Let’s start [...]

>>> Why, for the love of Bruce, is In Grenada (pictured) one of the most under-appreciated bands in Philly? We don’t know — truly, we’re stymied — but hopefully, it’ll change with the release of Break, the band’s first full-length long-player. On Break, you’ll find glockenspiels, big romantic synth beds, epic and distant Telecasters and [...]

Since Thanksgiving, every free moment we’ve had has been consumed by this illuminating tome first published in 1997, when “The War On Christmas” was but a twinkle in some old white jerkoff’s eye. Rather, Stephen Nissenbaum’s The Battle for Christmas studies the history of Christmas in America since the 1600s, when Puritan settlers (read: CHRISTIANS) [...]

As we have discussed before, the new “official brand” of Philadelphia is a goddamned awful joke, and all those who signed off on it should be made to suffer. And while we might have been the first to notice it, we now know that we’ll not be the last, and perhaps that suffering will come [...]

Ho, ho, ho! Please welcome “Off Duty: Santas Not In Season”, put together by a friend of ours, to the Internet. It is what it says it is. Above, our submission: Ira Einhorn. He’s, like, wayyy off duty.

The way we live now: Cranky emails from Fool & His Money/PA gubernatorial candidate Tom Knox crowing about the states most burning issue right now — how your PECO bill might could go up. The primal Andy Rooney-ness of Knox’s big push these days notwithstanding, the candidate has now found himself in a bit of [...]

Please join us for this, our annual Alan Mann post.

>>> Hey, you all see the new “Yo, I’m From Philly” issue of PhillyMag yet? Yep, Tina Fey‘s on the cover, but, hey, THERE’S NO INTERVIEW WITH TINA FEY. And we’re pretty sure no one from PhillyMag even took any of the pictures of Fey in the issue. They did, however, talk to Tina’s dad, [...]

Last month, we wondered what director Tigre Hill‘s late-breaking Mumia news was, when he announced that he’d be pushing back the release of The Barrel Of A Gun after “rare new insight” had come to light. Hill has been working on Barrel for literally years now, and at the time, promised a new trailer. Well, [...]

The Lovely Bones, the fantasy/thriller directed by Peter Jackson and shot in Pennsylvania and New Zealand, stars Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz. Up until a few days ago, the film had been scheduled to open on Christmas Day but will now open January 15th, after Jackson admitted last month that he had to shoot new [...]

Last time we checked in with Dawn Stensland — former FOX29 news anchor and wife of Larry Mendte — she was Facebooking her pain away and awaiting whatever came next. Well, that next thing could very well be a GOP run for Congress in the 7th District. Which is just so crazy it could work: [...]

· Time flies when you’re having poll! But for real: The Philebrity Awards Poll will close at midnight tonight! So if you haven’t voted yet, get on that. There’s lots of polls that could still go either way, and the competition is STIFF in some of these categories. · Meanwhile, preparations continue for the Philebrity [...]

This just in: Philadelphia has been elevated from a Tier 2 Urban Area to a Tier 1 Urban Area by the Dept. of Homeland Security. Which is good, on one hand, because that means that Philly is now in line to receive “substantially more” funding from HS than it has in the past. And that [...]

Jack McDade, we don’t know who you are, but will you be our weird uncle this Christmas?

Ben Franklin: In case you didn’t know? Total poonhound. The legends surrounding our city’s most famous grown man in short pants and the fairer sex (and some involving the less fair sex, too) are… legend. But you know, up until now, we’ve never really seen any actual love life advice from the dude. So thanks [...]