It’s Social Media Day and Philly’s having the 8th biggest celebration in the world. Yeah, that’s right, the new pseudo-holiday (not a real one until bloggers get the day off) is being celebrated in Japan, Scotland, India… and covertly in China, for all the Ninja Cloak-lovin’ Facebookers. According to the people over at Mashable , Philly’s celebration, held at the [...]

Either there is more to this story than the internet is giving us, or some homeless guy just got his cart blown up. We kind of suspect it is the latter. That said, for any of you who were stuck in traffic by City Hall or trying to walk through Love Park between 12:10-1:30pm this [...]

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and if there’s time, somebody can get to it.” We want you all to remember that.

We don’t really understand the science behind it, but we’re fascinated by this Israeli scientist/professor Haim Breitbart, who has come up with the basics for a birth control pill for men. Whoa dude, that’s kind of out of this world. Apparently, based around a specific molecule, Breitbart has come up with a couple of different [...]

All U.S. smokers out there have been hearing/griping about the fact that our Marlboro Lights are now Golds, Pall Mall Lights are now Blues. You might even know that this became official because of a little something called the Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act. But things are tough all over, and it’s no long [...]

Whoever was responsible for this clearly needs to be rehired/brought back from the dead.

Vince holdin’ it down at the Linda Creed Memorial Scholarship Fund Concert in May of ’87. More from what looks like a pretty incredible evening here.

Some (most likely full-of-shit) lady is suing the Phillie Phanatic. Oh, the humanity.

Click to enlarge. Via PlanPhilly comes the new SEPTA map which reflects, as we told you a little while ago, the new “R”-less regional rail routes. And while we’re trying very hard not to oppose change simply because it is change, it’s hard not regard this as a confusing abomination. We’ll get over it eventually. [...]

Semi-local amazing poster bros The Heads Of State have created the above poster in order to raise money for Oceana, the largest organization solely focused on protecting the world’s oceans. It’ll be available this weekend on Daily Grommet, with each company is donating half of the sale price of each Oil Drop poster sold to [...]

TONY BLAIR??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? THE SAME TONY BLAIR THAT BACKED UP BUSH’S BULLSHIT ABOUT THE WMD’S? AGAIN: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? OH, AND HERE’S THE PULLQUOTE FROM NUTTER: “Can you just imagine the electricity in the air when two old friends, two masters of the English language, two men who have [...]

Joel Stein, y’know, the journalist (?), wrote this little thing for Time magazine. Now, he’s keeping it fresh by making fun of people from India (as opposed to other, more frequently mocked minorities) but it’s pretty much an epic fail. In all categories. Especially this part: “Then, in the 1980s, the doctors and engineers brought [...]

Holy crap we love this band.

The hooligans over in Harrisburg have reached a “final agreement in principle” on the state budget, according to State Rep. Dominic Pileggi. This means we’re one step closer to finalizing the budget on time (as opposed to the 3-month late mess last year that screwed state workers, and lots of others, left and right). While [...]

Hey Amy Korman! We gonna party like it’s your birthday! Because, in what has already turned out to be a monumental issue for PhillyMag (the one where they backed off a story about Ed Rendell side nookie, wound up firing Larry Platt, and somehow just lost star writer Steve Volk), YOU, AMY KORMAN, managed to [...]

Listen: We love our Philebrity Wack Pack. We really do. Cheesesteak The Mysterious, A Crapulent Painblow, the whole lot of ‘em. But, er, how best to put this? Some of the debates are getting a little stale. Sometimes, if we may be frank, they’re even a little depressing. Granted, we do believe that Philebrity enjoys [...]

Sunoco. Inc. was slapped with an $81,000 fine earlier this month for failing to notify federal and state environmental agencies immediately about an accidental release of 1,608 pounds of benzene into the air from its Philadelphia oil refinery facility back in January 2007. This got us wondering: What else has Sunoco been doing that we [...]

Remember how Arlene Ackerman was ready to “move on” (read: forget) after the violent outbreaks against Asian students at South Philly High? How about her way of monitoring the violence? And then recall Violet Sutton-Lawson, the community liaison who dove into a student brawl to protect an Asian boy being attacked by 8-10 students. Today [...]

Ozzy looks like he might have scared himself.