From Bicycling‘s “America’s Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities”:

>>> The War On Drugs play their first local show in foreverrrrrrrrr! With High Places at Kung Fu Necktie. >>> And, uh, I don’t know what Trans-Siberia Orchestra is doing in town tonight, but they are here, at the Tower Theater. The seasons are all so weird now. I know that they moved summer into [...]

We will leave it to you to come up with the according drinking game rules in the comments.

Last night, legendary comedian/everybody’s Dad Bill Cosby was given the Marian Anderson Award for his charitable work — a big deal nationally, and an even bigger deal if you grew up in Philly like Anderson did. And it came on the heels of what feels like a restoration project of the Cosby image: A complete [...]

We casually asked, you emphatically, inspiringly obliged. And so tomorrow on Philebrity, we’re going to be featuring songs about Philly written and performed by Philly bands. And if you haven’t sent us a tune yet, there’s still time: Send us your track to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com by midnight tonight to be considered for our all-Philly roundup. And [...]

A Love Letter For You from Megawords Magazine on Vimeo. [H/t to Likes And Likes]

In an effort to make our brains explode, Philly.com has recently partnered with FanDuel, a UK company specializing is a sort of “one-night-stand” fantasy sports. FanDuel’s system operates on the fringes of what’s permitted with online betting, but does seem to be legally kosher — especially when you consider that Philly.com is basically funded by [...]

The Metro’s got a piece today on how Sharif Street is dipping his toe into politics once again, but more importantly, it also has a sidebar that lets Sharif get all Harry Chapin up in there about his dad, some dude named John. [Photo credit: Metro/Rikard Larma]

Two things: 1. Stop sending your press releases as Word docs. What is this, 1999? Paste that shit into an email and let’s get on with it already. (Word docs also carry viruses. We can’t even believe we have to explain this you.) 2. And unbelievably, some of you still don’t know how to BCC. [...]

Because we’ve fallen into a meta-hole where Kabletown is going to head-to-head with Xfinity but Xfinitity is Comcast and so is KableTown AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

By now, you’ve probably seen that yesterday, a U.S. appeals court tut-tutted the FCC over slamming Comcast for throttling bandwidth usage for some of it more, shall we say, libertine customers. Now, ur first instinct was to dismiss this all as some excellent lawyerin’ on the part of Kabletown — and, make no mistake, it [...]

On second thought, don’t tell us, we love how it feels right now. It’s like the Daria reunion episode that never happened. (Holy crap it’s real.)

Singin’ it Lonesome Mix 1.0 by stevenwardjames Aw, c’mon, we know you’re sneakin’ out for a three-Martini lunch, and we know what you got under the desk over there. Our bro Steven made this old classic country mixtape in advance of SINGIN’ IT LONESOME w/ The Wallace Brothers, an old-style country night at Kung Fu [...]

Daily News writer/Attytood dude Will Bunch‘s next book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, Hi-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, won’t be out until the end of August. But staring at the cover and trying to crystal-ball it, we couldn’t help but wonder: Will The Backlash still be going on then? The part [...]

We have no idea if other people can pick up on this vibe or not (and in fact we fear that we are totally alone here), but if you can, come down. A few choice cuts after the jump.

Pardon us for a second: Is that Cheap Trick in the Khyber? Maybe we can ask ‘em when they play The Mann with Squeeze on Fri., July 16th. (Tickets on sale Friday.) Also, it’s amazing to think that there was a time 94 WYSP didn’t suck. Their slogan now should be: “Rock on, Philly! (We’ll [...]

We know, we know: Many of you already despise Foursquare, the social network/app thingy that tells everyone in the world everywhere you are (so they can rob you), and credit it with being final, incontrovertible proof that people just love themselves a little too much. (Why you continue to look for evidence of this when [...]

We were hoping it was a sex thing, but it’s not. “Fracking” is a natural gas drilling process in which millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals are forced down into the shale in order to extract gas. It’s kind of like giving the earth a colonic, and just like with those things, you’ve [...]

Brilliant. Thanks, Gabriel Ehri. Related: SEPTA FIRE RATS

More red light cameras have been installed at Henry Avenue and Walnut Lane, Rising Sun and Adams avenues, and Aramingo and Castor avenues. So don’t think you’re not being watched, Philadelphia; you are. Just… very slowly.