It might be too early on a Monday to fully wrap your head around these stats, but according to a national Fairleigh Dickinson University poll, 60% of people who have seen MTV’s Jersey Shore have a positive view of New Jersey, whereas a mere 44% of those who haven’t seen the show have a positive [...]

We will say this: Somehow, this is still better than last year’s Flavor Saver. Also, wow. [Via Todd Zolecki's Twitpic]

Hi guys — looks like the official transformation has begun! What you’re looking at is the F and O that will eventually adorn the Wachovia Center… once it becomes the Wells Fargo Center. As far as I know, the switch over to the new name needs to be completed by September. It didn’t look like [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Because WOW, there is not much going on. But you can do a lot with a little. The Balkan gigolos who make up the wildly entertaining Slavic Soul Party touch down and hang out with the West Philadelphia Orchestra at Johnny Brenda’s ; the young, emotional men of Pissed Jeans play the Khyber; [...]

RECOMMENDED: Is anybody else a little wary of how Martin Scorsese has been hanging on to Leonardo DiCaprio for dear life? DiCaprio pulls his weight, for sure — his performances in The Departed and Gangs Of New York carried their respective titles, especially in the case of the former — but you can’t help but [...]

Just like you always suspected, Larry Mendte will be returning to local TV tonight. According to his Facebook post (yes, we are friends with Larry Mendte on Facebook — we like him because he’s never once made his kid his profile picture or played Farmville), Mendte was recently hired by the Tribune Company to produce [...]

We’re gonna mention it every Friday until you do it: You should totally follow Urban Archives (Paley Library, Temple University) on Facebook. The pic above is from their 2010 calendar on transit in Philadelphia, and we couldn’t help but wonder: Could this man (Lord Whimsy’s dad?) have ever known that his simple act of fun, [...]

Directed by Bob Weisz, this is the rather amazing new clip for West Philly’s own A Sunny Day In Glasgow, said to be “based heavily on LL Cool J‘s character in Toys.”

Local freelance TV and film makeup artist Morgan Chalfant spent five days, for hours a day, sculpting “Winter,” out of snow. Complete with eyelashes and other makeup, Morgan says she did it to “creatively dig out of the mounds of snow that were recently dumped on us.” But we’re of the mind that she did [...]

Great Reuters piece today on Daniel Hawke (not pictured), the director of the SEC’s Philadelphia office, who’s recently been picked to lead a federal task force on insider trading and other stock market crimes. Hawke specializes is difficult-to-track market frauds, and to do so, he’s got a crack team of investigators and an insane database [...]

We’ve thought long and hard about this, because frankly, we’ve already done more Jersey Shore posts than we would ever have liked to. However, what we realized is that these posts do, in fact, provide a valuable community service by informing our readers of the exact locales of profound douchebaggery in the area. Because everywhere [...]

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>>>While tonight is by no means the first time Mos Def, De La Soul, Pete Rock or Slick Rick have rocked this town, it still promises to be a great show. De La Soul alone is guaranteed to give you your money’s worth and we’d be surprised if they Mos Def didn’t join Slick Rick [...]

>>> Why does this make us think of the prison scene from Goodfellas, only minus the good food? Corey Kemp, T. Milton Street Sr. and Vinnie “The Thief” Fumo are currently all residing in the very same house of corrections. [HickeyBlunt] >>> Wireless Philadelphia may well be a great dream of the past, but there’s [...]

Back in the day, Steve Grasse‘s Gyro was an ad agency that specialized in THE EXTREME, MAAAAAN! They did work for ESPN and MTV and Camel, and maybe, in some small way, contributed to the temporary Mountain Dew-ization of your worldview. (It’s OK. It was your chain wallet phase. We all had one.) Then, one [...]

As many of you BoingBoing readers might already know, Lower Merion School District is involved in a lawsuit for spying on their students at home via school issued laptops. Apparently, administrators secretly reserved the ability to remotely monitor the students’ clickstreams, email, turn on the laptops’ webcams and generally Big Brother the shit out of [...]

It is not an exaggeration to say that, perhaps more than any other human being living or dead, Larry Magid has played a larger part in bringing music to Philadelphia than anyone in the city’s history. So when news broke yesterday that Magid was leaving Live Nation, who acquired Magid’s Electric Factory Concerts (when what [...]

I was there. He scolded the audience for talking and smoking. That was what we did in the 1990s. It was kind of awesome.

Philadelphia and Camden have received $23 million dollars in federal stimulus funds to create, expand, and connect bike paths for the two cities. Philly received the lion’s share, $17 million of the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant, awarded to the city with the intention of creating jobs as well as promoting green transportation. [...]

It’s The Dude! Doin’ thangs! And not a trace of snow/ice/deadslush in sight, thereby proving that, er, this is not about Philadelphia.