Many people, and especially women, who ride bikes in Philadelphia have been internally been playing the “What if?” game for the past few weeks. Most of us usually feel safer on our bikes than on foot: We are faster, more isolated, we have our headphones on and we are staring straight ahead; no one is [...]

This thread on Philadelphia Speaks just led us down the most wonderful (Not Our) Memory Lane ever. It would seem that 2010 is the 40th anniversary for the O.G. hippies and freaks who claimed the then-decrepit (but cell-phone-store-free) South Street in 1970. What they did with it, and what we don’t think they could have [...]

Mayor Michael Nutter is in New Orleans right now, getting all up-close-and-personal with the BP oil spill in order to better understand its nationwide impact. Nutter headed down Sunday as one of 17 mayors touring the region on a two-day trip sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, of which Nutter is the vice president. [...]

Bros, studies show, may soon stop icing bros.

Geez, guys, c’mon. Also, why does City Hall look like it’s sinking into the marshes of the Delaware in one background pic? Why do we get the feeling we’ve just entered what will surely be a long and unpleasant season of pain? (That could be much longer, we suppose, for those that don’t even realize [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Vibes are beautiful, vibes are free, vibes are the best thing that can happen to you and to me: Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo with DJ Kyle Andrews. >>> On a similar, but much much larger plane, how about getting off your barstool and going to the West Oak Lane Jazz Festival — [...]

RECOMMENDED: Micmacs is the new film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and Amélie (among others), and there is literally nothing in the world that could stop us from going to see it. Thank you, Movie Gods. ALSO NEW IN THEATERS: Toy Story 3, which is, er, Toy Story 3; [...]

>>> What a beautiful day/night to get out there and ENGAGE WITH YOUR FELLOW PHILADELPHIANS, no? There’s a lot on the plate: The Jennifer Egan reading we told you about earlier… >>>… and lots and lots of spooky/scuzzy punk rock: Pissed Jeans at Johnny Brenda’s; D.O.A./F.O.D./Women at The M Room (from back when all you [...]

Bye bye Pattison Station, hello AT&T Station. SEPTA announced yesterday that they’re on the brink of selling the naming rights to the stop * — here’s hoping drunk sports fans don’t get too confused. And just how much is a name worth? Over $5 million. SEPTA says it’s part of its plan to raise revenue in [...]

Since it became a pet cause for the Obamas, we have heard much over the last year or so about the wonders of gardening. But we haven’t heard quite as much about what to do if, say, you want to do some gardening but have no land or roof where you can do it. Enter [...]

Free speech, y’all: It’s not just for you and me — it’s also for people who make you want to leave America entirely. And this is the bittersweet truth we must walk away with when we learn that fetus-fetishist/fuh-laming homophobe Michael Marcavage (pictured) has won his appeal. A federal appeals court has ruled that Marcavage [...]

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Promo from Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV for the ’92 Mayoral Inauguration. Man. Whole different city then. Previously: Poll: Do You Give A Flying Frig If Ed Rendell Cheated On His Wife?

We have not learned much in the wake of the tragic murder of Sabina Rose O’Donnell, but we have learned this much: People on the Internet fucking suck. But then, we knew that already, and so did you. So when ?uestlove of The Roots (who has been very active in raising money and awareness around [...]

We wish they made more novelists like Jennifer Egan these days — writers who have all the necessary chops for falling down the Eggers/Foer wormhole, but have the good taste to do it in a sparing, almost genteel way. And yes, there is a chapter in Egan’s latest novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad, [...]

“[It] may not be political, but it speaks to a certain community through a certain voice that projects a certain idea of what Philly should look like.” – Todd Wolfson, executive director of the leftist Media Mobilizing Project, by way of bellyaching how he wasn’t included in the fancy schmancy J-Lab report that STILL hasn’t [...]

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video. Oh, listen to that soothing, beachy sound. Privately, though, officials are beginning to wonder what might happen once all of that clean water begins to wash up on the dirtball streets of Holmseburg. Brass at the Philadelphia Water Dept. have already been heard to complain that they “want their [...]

From its service in defending the common man to its place as the uniform of choice during a more genteel time in the United States government to being the suit Party Guy always likes to wear to summer weddings, there is no denying: Seersucker has put the time in. So yes, Happy National Seersucker Day. [...]

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