Archive for June, 2010

Readers Cameraphone: Angry, Vengeful God Turns His Attentions To West Philly Anarchists

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Which is kind of like the Big Man On Campus picking on Martha Dumptruck, but whatever. What’s weird is that God always struck us as kind of a Situationist anyway, so why all the rage during yesterday’s big storm directed at A-Space? Who knows. Maybe he’s overcompensating. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it [...]

From The Desk Of Conor Corcoran: It’s Always Something In Philadelphia

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Ryan Howard waltzed in with a harem as hot as Georgia asphalt. I couldn’t decide what was more impressive: How a man that size can wear earrings that big with some dreadful Ed Hardy type gear and still be considered a heterosexual, or the fact that he so effortlessly slid to the rear of the [...]

Right Now On Phoodie.info: Class Acts

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

· Mrs. Tootsie’s Server’s Manual Contains Words All Servers Should Live By · C-List Celebrity Wine Gone Wild · The New Taste of Tweed All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Yes, THAT IS SOME SERIOUS RAIN, But Is It Chocolate?

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Squatter Kids Soon To Be Running On Empty

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

To the severe dismay of all Philadelphia’s broke squatter fixie-riding pseudo punks, Four LOKO is probably not going to be around for too much longer. For those of you who haven’t had the visceral and disorientating (not to mention incredibly challenging) experience of working your way through one of these bad boys, Four LOKO is [...]

Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To The PEX Summer Festival

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

As part of our new resolution to say “yes” to things that our old embittered selves would have negated without a second thought — things like: rooftop gardening, healthy eating, going to West Philly — next week, we’re packing up the fam and pitching a tent at the PEX Summer Festival, to be held July [...]

Noontime Nuggetz: Sun Airway, “Waiting On You”

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Sun Airway’s “Waiting On You” visuals from klipcollective on Vimeo. After months of blog hype and lots of trippy visuals, Philly’s own Sun Airway — the new band from the ashes of The A-Sides — is playing its debut live show tonight, which is said to be a tricked-out multimedia affair with even more tripped-out [...]

Superman To Walk Through Philly (Let’s Mug Him)

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Superman will embark on a 12-issue cross-country walk starting in Philadelphia in hopes of reconnecting with his adopted earthly roots. DC Comics’ imaginary itinerary will take the Man of Steel through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington. Readers in these states who live within 50 miles of his general route will [...]

UPenn Study: Sex And Drugs (And Hopefully Rock And Roll) Is All We Want To Do

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Turns out, Ian Dury (at right) was right! According to a new study done at the University of Pennsylvania, people’s attitudes about casual sex are often directly linked to their attitudes about drug use. What the study found is that, basically, regardless of your political or religious views, if you like to screw, you probably [...]

The Most Gloriously Low-Tech News Site In The City Now Looks Just Like Everybody Else

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

For years, we have loved the KYW 1060 website for its no-nonsense “you miss a headline, tough shit” approach, and its valiant efforts to freeze itself in 1999. In a weird way, it was the cleanest, most concise Philly news resource on the web; but no more. They’ve gone and done a redesign that makes [...]

Dept. Of Thou Doth Protest Too Much? Ed Rendell Will Have You Know He’s Never Even Considered Some Poon On The Side

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Like we were saying, PhillyMag has this story coming out about how Governor Ed Rendell (pictured at right with a special exploratory panel) may or may not have been getting a little action on the side. (We already asked you if you cared, and you overwhelmingly said no, then demanded more news about Diplo.) With [...]

Readers Cameraphone: There Once Was A Philly Imagined By Nantucket

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

I spotted this on I-95 near the Betsy Ross Bridge. You’ll notice a Bizarro-Philly with it’s Microsoft Paint edited skyline pitching Nantucket Nectars… reminding us that we’re all a bunch of juice heads. Is that a second Center City down there past South Street? What’s that Transformer-looking thing near the Comcast Center? And look how [...]

This Friday At Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo: DJ AARON LUIS LEVINSON

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

We got a wild one for ya this week at Philebrity Happy Hour at Octo Waterfront Grille, folks: Grammy Award-winning record producer/unabashed vinyl phreek/raconteur and man-about-town AARON LUIS LEVINSON knows more about music than you, but unlike many who suffer from this condition, he lives to narrow that gap. We literally have no idea what [...]

This Just In: Jury Says City Can’t Evict Homophobic (And Most Likely Self-Hating, Gay) Scouts

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Despite the fact that nonprofits given free use of city property must abide by city anti-discrimination laws, a jury has ruled that the Boy Scouts can’t be evicted by the City of Philadelphia from their $200,000-a-year property for which they pay only $1. We have to admit: We didn’t see this coming. It looked like [...]

MJ Is Kind Of Like A Zombie: The World Just Won’t Let Him Die

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Keep your Ipecac at the ready guys, you may need to induce vomiting if you can’t stomach this sort of hopping-on-the-bandwagon, washed-out, year-too-late nonsense. In what appears to be a fairly bizarre attempt by the Alzheimer’s Association to make their cause a little bit more hip and trendy, they are doing a little something to [...]

Attention Bored Homosexuals: Positions Now Available On The Main Line For Gay Minstrel Sidekicks To Out-of-Touch Philly Mag Bloggers

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

In what ought to go down as the most cliche, most irrelevant, and most groan-inducing article ever to be published at the hands of Philadelphia Magazine, weekly columnist Kelly Rowell craps out a series of tired, gross stereotypes about gay men the likes of which we haven’t read in fucking years. Apparently, gays are the [...]

And Now, This Week’s First Person Arts Story Slam Winner: Meghan’s Epic Fail

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Meghan’s Epic Fail from last night’s First Person StorySlam centers around a pita on a patio at a party. I could keep going with the alliteration but it would just give away the punchline… First Person StorySlams take place every second Monday at World Cafe Live and fourth Tuesday at L’Etage. The next Slam is [...]

And Now, Today’s First World Problem: Megan’s Law Website Not As Good As Facebook

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

An audit of the PA Megan’s Law Website has shown that the pictures are too dark/fuzzy, the search engine is wonky, and the information is not up to date. Also, it’s very difficult to manage who sees your status updates and filter out Farmville/Mafia Wars, posts about the World Cup, and party invites from Dave [...]

If Nutter Can Manage To Sell Off PGW, It Will Be An Astonishing Achievement

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

As this Dave Davies piece notes, if he did so, Mayor Nutter would not be the first Philly mayor to look into selling off PGW, the nation’s largest municipally-owned gas utility. It’s always been our experience that, as utilities/home services go, PGW is somewhere in the middle — less aggravating than Comcast or Verizon, but [...]

More Readers Cameraphone: Which Philebrity Commenter Stands Here With Glenn Howerton Of Always Sunny Plus A Random Man?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Alright, now we’re really starting to get rolling with the Always Sunny pics. At right, as we said, is a regular Philebrity commenter. (And no, it’s not Cheesesteak The Impaler/Black Jack Taco The Eviscerator — he hides under a cloak of anonymity so thick you could make grossburgers from it.) Anyway, he was on the [...]