“My ‘Jersey Shore’ nickname is ‘DJ Douchebag.’ No, really: I know it’s random and all, but that’s the first thing that came up. You can’t argue with results like that.” What, we ask the skies, is a douchebag, really, if not just an off-duty loser? Think about the guys on Entourage, or Jon Gosselin, or [...]

Nobody freak out: The Metro has not gone out of business, they just know that it’s the first two days after the holidays and you totally don’t care, so they all stayed home and played Super Mario Bros. for Wii… JUST LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE. The paper — soon to be Philly’s only daily (kidding, [...]

We’ll never get tired of telling you: Pink is one Philebrity we wish we could, as a civic family unit, disown completely. She’s the goddamned Joan Krajewski of pop stars, a constant embarrassment, a dumb poser, and a living monument to an old celebrity system that died for great, good, wonderful reasons. (That said, she’s [...]

Crash Course In Science were an early-80s, art-school (anybody know which one?) new wave band from Philadelphia who we wish were making records today. Because we just found out about them.

We’d like to big-up the folks at the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University, who just broke news with a report on how tweaking the genes in tobacco plants to increase their oil production could turn ol’ tobacco into a biofuel. Which will be good news for all of those long-suffering tobacco execs out [...]

We didn’t really want him, lots of other folks didn’t really want him, either, but as of yesterday, we got him, Philadelphia. Say hello to your newest District Attorney, Seth Williams (pictured). Williams, of course, comes in on the heels of his old nemesis Lynne Abraham, and things got off to a weird start already [...]

The comments lately on any 76ers post here have revealed one thing: There are a lot of you long-suffering Sixers fans out there, and you’re mad as hell and you’re not gonna take it any more (than, oh, say, another three years). The target of much of your ire? Well, there’s lots of blame to [...]

You know, it wasn’t so very long ago that we all experienced a day on which so much about the way we lived changed — what it means to live in a big city, how information is exchanged and the very fiber of what makes us “us.” And today, Mayor Michael Nutter will join other [...]

Hey, you know who’s trying? I mean, really really trying? The Philadelphia 76ers, that’s who. We know you already know this, but we’d be hard pressed to find any sports organization that’s done more this year to woo you back, and even after the Iverson deal, they’re still bending over backwards. And they’re using any [...]

More 2010 predictions: By the end of the ear, everything you read (including this website!) will be an experimental, non-profit, public interest, community journalism thingamajig. Why? Because it’s the fuuuuuuture, and uh, because soon, people paypal-ing you five dollars at a time will be the only way anybody can get any money at all. In [...]

Amidst the various and sundry and, quite frankly, queasy-making decade’s-end roundups we willingly, stupidly consumed over the last two weeks, we have to say: Katie Roiphe’s essay in the New York TimesBook Review yesterday was probably one of the best. Here, Roiphe compares and contrasts today’s literary “lions” (bear cubs might be a more apt [...]

Wake up, rockists! No, it’s not about the new Vampire Weekend album (although that was digitally serviced this morning so expect it to be on the Internet and everywhere and free… now!), it’s about Wilco. The band will be playing Electric Factory on Saturday, April 10; tickets go on sale Saturday, January 9 at 10am. [...]

Timothy Fryett shot this really nice clip of SRA (under the direction of Marshall Allen) performing at ICA last summer.

“Spare me your pity: I’m only doing this to put myself through Wharton. Want a lap dance?” So, we just learned that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be back in town this winter, at the Wachovia Center, from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. And just like every other year, [...]

As we trudge through lots of new year business over these next days, we did think it would be a good time to remind you all: We’re still boycotting the Philadelphia Inquirer because of its continuing employ of torture advocate John Yoo, and we’d like you to consider the boycott, too. Since we began our [...]

2010, a brokedick odyssey: Before this year is over, mark our words, you will have the option of playing slots in an oxygen-pumped prole sarcophagus on Delaware Avenue among both The Greatest Generation and some of the saddest unskilled laborers Sugarhouse’s dirty, dirty money can buy. Maybe even by August! Also this year: Legalized table [...]

Last year, we got into a big tussle with the Space 1026 kids over their dalliances with the Mummers, which are, in case you didn’t know, Philly’s second-best racist cover organization. (Philly’s Anti-Mumia Industry taking top honors, of course.) We said it was dangerous for the art kids to mix up their irony with pig-faced [...]

Hey everybody! Well rested? WE ARE. But you know that already. Over the last two weeks, we’ve been resting up, gearing up for the new year/new decade, and pondering the ways that we can make a better site for you, and for us. There’ll be some changes over the next year for sure — including [...]