In the midst of the aftershocks of yesterday’s awful horse-drawn carriage crash, reader Ryan is quick to remind us that the carriage company and horses in question, of 76 Carriage Company, also provide a valuable and noble service: I wanted to pass along and remind you that at times of civic trauma and heartache, 76 [...]

Truly, we are blessed to have readers like you. Thank you, and thank you, Broad Street Bootlegs.

· Weak In The Knees For My Jello Americans · Reading Terminal Market Goes Italian · Iron Hill, Yards, Nodding Head Win Big At World Beer Cup All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Ask your friends who work in arts orgs: In the middle of this recession thingy, they’ve all been doing more with less. And as brave a face as that is, let’s send congrats to the recipients of this year’s Engage 2020 Innovation Grant Program, a new grantmaking initiative from The Wallace Foundation, The Pew Charitable [...]

Stop me — oh-ho-ho stop me — if you think that you’ve heard this one before: Into the summer, the city of Philadelphia will be plagued a hot acid rain of question marks all over its budget status that could, eventually, affect everything that happens here. Don’t call it a comeback, because at the moment, [...]

Sun Airway “Infinity” from klipcollective on Vimeo. Sun Airway is the band that has emerged from the ashes of Philly’s late, great A-Sides. While there are definitely some similarities, the above clip — directed by Klip Collective — shows that it’s a far more blissed-out affair. [h/t The Walrus]

Many of you are probably already familiar with Megawords, the photo publication out of Philly that’s “a non-commercial record of place and human experience.” It’s also total eye candy and often beautiful and inspiring. Well, moving forward, Megawords is trying to use Kickstarter to fund its next few projects — a cool idea, and we’re [...]

On behalf of the entire city and people all over the world that have been looking for an animated GIF to describe the phenomenon known as “Pukemon,” we’d like to say to the folks at UsedWigs: THANK YOU.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jon Gosselin’s Fauxhawk.

If you’re near a local TV news source this morning, you may already be seeing reports of an accident involving two horse-drawn carriages and an automobile this morning around 6th and Race Streets. As best we can put it together — between the news reports and a tipster who was on the scene — a [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Just last night, I was sitting with a friend, having a drink outside at what felt like one of Philly’s 300 places where you can do that now, when I asked him: “Did you ever in a million years think that you’d wake up one day and think that Philly would be this [...]

NEW IN THEATERS: Death At A Funeral, which features the potential explosive pairing of director Neil LaBute and Chris Rock; Kick-Ass, a kind of Mystery Men lite; and The Perfect Game, some little league junk that you probably wouldn’t even watch on free TV unless you were babysitting a very, very old person. For more [...]

Free Library: Listening to Beethoven in the music section of the library, is Ruth Dalphin, who is studying for a paper while working toward a Masters degree in music at Temple. April 13, 1974. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. We’re gonna mention it every Friday until you do it: You should totally follow Urban Archives (Paley Library, [...]

Lucky Strike Lanes??? Really? Previously: Who Is Jarret A. And Why Is He Totally Decimating Everyone On Foursquare?

Click to enlarge. The nice kids over at ActualRecords drew this handy map for tomorrow’s Record Store Day in Philadelphia and, yo, nice work! While we have your attention, let’s hip you to some Record Store Day appearances: Meg Baird will be performing at AKA Music in Old City, Kurt Vile will be performing at [...]

It all kind of makes sense now.

After the jump, B-Hickz ponders the joke that could make the world never stop crying.

There is a moment — it is electrical, it is bowel-loosening — when we come upon a creature in this life that is so vile that we want to immediately destroy it, right up until (and only sometimes after) the moment we realize that in this beast, we can see ourselves. Whosoever among us has [...]

>>> Since tomorrow is likely to be a rainy mess, get your Friday night in early and go dancing: Been There Done That at Medusa salutes Kraftwerk; BadPopArmy at The Walnut Room does one-hit wonders; and Night Train at Kung Fu Necktie features special guest Russell Alexander from Turnaround Vs. Immediate. Got it? Good.

· Food Porn: Kabobeesh, You Had Us Within The First Five Jump-Cuts · And Now, The Best Tip We’ve Seen In The Two Years Since We Made Our BBQ Tips Guide · With Friends Like Patel, Who Needs Enemas? All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the [...]