Just like they did last year, hundreds and hundreds of toads have been migrating across Hagy’s Mill Road in Roxborough. But with one notable exception: Migration has been early this year, resulting in a whopping 200 dead toads, due to the folks behind The Toad Detour not being able to get said detour set up [...]

Back when this track first came out, it wasn’t about flash mobs. It was about FLESH MOBS.

Hahahahaha. YES. Love this cat. Gawker has the video.

Real talk, though: We spent a lot of time yesterday using the search engine on Twitter to find evidence of local teens imploring others to come to South Street to fuck shit up, and basically, we found next to nothing. Which brings up a huge point to be made about this whole Flash Mob Thing: [...]

Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. We were lucky enough to receive TWO maps of Manayunk from readers, both of which confirmed something we’d always even suspected: Even people who live there have had enough of the douchebag bars that have all but totally claimed Manayunk’s identity from itself. But look, there is good and [...]

Yesterday, we spent a lot of time digging around YouTube and Twitter (more on that in a minute) to see what we could ascertain about Saturday night’s events that maybe wasn’t being reported. Some of the best footage we found was from YouTube user 1UptownKA, who would seem to be a local teenager who’s part [...]

If you’ve been paying attention to the now-relatively-slowly unravelling Gosselin saga, you already know that hairball harpy Kate Gosselin has been booked for the next season of Dancing With The Stars, a show our therapist makes us watch so we can better relate to those we so derisively call “regs.” (We like the shouting Italian [...]

Herb Denenberg, whose “Denenberg’s Dump” segments many of us grew up with, died on Thursday. Denenberg was an icon of Philly media, and had a hand in inventing the “gotcha” form of crowd-sourced complaint journalism. (And hey, if he did get a little tea-baggy at the end, such is the pratfall of The Greatest Generation.) [...]

Accordingly, here’s a fun Sweeney drinking game: · If he uses the phrase “THAT BEING SAID,” drink once! · Anytime the words/phrases “blog,” “blogosphere,” “Twitter,” “MySpace,” “Facebook,” or “social media” are said, drink once. · If a long silence follows anything he says, FINISH YOUR DRINK. Set your DVR’s, people! Previously: Rhythm Of The Night: [...]

This afternoon, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts revealed its approved conceptual designs for Lenfest Plaza, a new pedestrian court that will take up that little sliver of what is now Cherry Street at Broad. Designed by David Rubin at landscape architectural firm OLIN, Lenfest Plaza will be open 24/7, feature an as-yet unnamed “upscale [...]

Glad to see we weren’t the only people who lost their goddamned minds this weekend.

Click to enlarge. After Thursday’s deluge of hand-drawn neighborhood maps, you’d think that the amateur cartographer population of Philadelphia would be exhausted. Not so! Above, Meghan McAllister‘s handy eating and drinking map of Fairmount, where the men have frontwards baby backpacks and the women do, too — you know, for keeping the men. Hiyo! Ah, [...]

After an appeals process that went on for months, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has upheld an earlier decision in the Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding that says out-of-luck PNI lenders aren’t entitled to bid their claims instead of cash at an auction of the publisher’s assets. This is [...]

Presented without comment, here is a missive sent off this morning to members of the nascent South Philly Tea Bag Patriots or whatever the hell it is these people seem to want to call themselves with no trace of irony (or knowledge of fun sex acts) whatsoever: Good Morning Everyone: Like all of you I [...]

· They are, in this area of the country at least, DeBarge’s most lasting legacy. · Also, related to the link above, some people think they were a lot more fun when just white people had them. · They are fantastic as a litmus test to see which of your local City Council officials are [...]

While we hate to cop out on you like this two weeks in a row, the fact remains: We cannot in good conscience sit here and act like telling you to go to a bunch of DJ nights and concerts is an appropriate thing to do when the weather outside is like it is right [...]

RECOMMENDED: Think of The Runaways as a (perhaps lesser) companion piece to Velvet Goldmine, another film about disaffected teens turning their boredom and sex-shame into glam rock in The Long ’70s. First-time director Floria Sigismondi — you may know her from a grip of Nine Inch Nails videos she directed as well — doesn’t have [...]

That’s because Obama just hooked him up with a case of Yuengling. Next up: Pitchers of margaritas for Israel and Palestine!

The KableTown laffs just kept coming last night on 30 Rock. It’s not on Hulu yet, but you can get a peek here. Personally, we’re partial to Fresh-Ass: Based on the Novel Tush By Assfire, but we’re just freaky like that.