If you live in Montgomery County and you are just craving a new face for County commissioner, have we got a face for you! In fact, this face is 10-15 years newer than any other face on the upcoming 2011 Montgomery County commissioners’ ballot. Nate Webster, an 18-year-old from Lower Salford, might still live with [...]

In a pretty satisfying turn of events, it appears Mac from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is going to get to meet his role model/brother figure/kindred spirit/moderate stalkee, Chase Utley, after all. As you may know, Utley and Ryan Howard are supposed to be on set for the show on June 21-22; these two dates [...]

… it’s something your whole city can be proud of! Bravo! The show airs tonight on TLC.

Are you plagued by traumatic skin lacerations, surgical incisions, abrasions, burns, stretch marks, acne scars, sun damage, or wrinkles? Do you bear deeply set emotional scars caused by grief, fear, or rejection? Are you a murderous, power-seeking lion who can’t wait for the Circle of Life to erase your disfigurement? Do you need a mixed [...]

Here’s the new VisitPhilly.com ad that’s running all over the place. We like the vaguely psychedelic wipes here, but we feel like the ad is remiss in that it makes no mention of the other great features of Philadelphia summers: Crazymaking humidity, weird vibes and bugs.

And by “buy,” we mean “take over the business for an exorbitant sum and own nothing.” So says Dan Gross, and our own sources, who say that there’s been a back-and-forth going for months between Glen and Mike Naessens, who also own the well-regarded Eulogy just spitting distance from the Khyber, and the current Khyber [...]

Like some inverted reality where the major food groups are replaced by the four major chronic health conditions — diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and heart failure — the state of Pennsylvania would seem to be leading the nation in, er, failing health. A new study says that hospitalization rates here in PA for [...]

As we were mentioning yesterday, today is Bloomsday, which is, of course, the annual celebration of the life and work of James Joyce, with specific regard to his masterwork, Ulysses. (Click here for our Bloomsday fun facts post from last year.) As happens every year, Bloomsday is kicking off in Philadelphia, though due to a [...]

On August 3, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured) addressed a crowd of 10,000 at the intersection of 40th Street, Lancaster Avenue and Haverford Avenue. The speech was part of King’s now-legendary “Freedom Now” tour, which also ran through Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston. Here in Philly, as elsewhere, King’s speech on that day had fateful [...]

On the off chance you haven’t seen it all over the place yet: Police have arrested 18-year-old Donte Johnson (pictured) in connection with the murder and assault of Sabina Rose O’Donnell, which occurred in Northern Liberties on June 2nd. Authorities say that Johnson, who lives on north 11th St., has in fact confessed to the [...]

We never made a secret of it: We love Christopher Hitchens. Yes, he is a little nuts. Granted. But he’s also smarter than you, is right more often than you, and frankly, we just like the cut of his jib. So we’ve been digging into Hitch-22, The Hitch’s recently released memoir. It is a delightful, [...]

For as long as we have been in Philadelphia media circles, we have been hearing that there’s probably a pretty good chance that Ed Rendell might have liked to get a little on the side. We’ve been hearing this for years, all the way back from the mid-1990s and the whole Lisa DePaulo kerfuffle on [...]

Hey, everybody: The recession’s over! How do we know? Because arena football team/not-a-real-thing The Philadelphia Soul are back in business! But, sad face: Jon Bon Jovi is out of the ownership group, which is now comprised of Ron Jaworski and Pete from Chickie’s & Pete’s. We know what you’re thinking: In 2010, backing an arena [...]

First of all, a big thank you to East Hundred and everybody else who helped make last week’s Philebrity Happy Hour at Octo Waterfront Grille the biggest one ever! Through our joint efforts, we are all beginning to realize that sitting by the river in the breeze, boxed in by the sky, the bridge and [...]

· Height of a Jesus statue struck by lightning and burned to the ground during a thunderstorm in Ohio: 62 feet · Estimated energy budget reduction for switching city street lights to more efficient LEDs: 1/2 · Amount of the city’s $15 million street light budget that automatically goes to PECO in a fixed connection [...]

The just-uploaded video for this solo track by Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks fame features cameos from Tony Luke Jr. and porn star Gina Lynn, and was directed by Joe Frantz from Jackass and Viva La Bam.

Though we’re still loyal Apple users, like many of you, it’s been increasingly aggravating to watch Steve Jobs & Co. conduct a festival of worst practices over the last few months. The iPad leak was a debacle, and the way Apple acted over the case of the lost iPhone 4 was particularly galling, but the [...]

For the second year in a row, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and the City of Philadelphia were honored at the Annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Meeting, which concludes in Oklahoma City today. Last year, Philadelphia won the 2009 City Livability Award for the Philadelphia Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program, which now serves as a model for [...]

As of July 1, the Wachovia Center will be forever (or at least temporarily until the next corporate takeover) known as the Wells Fargo Center. This week, the city zoning board will consider a filing by Wells Fargo, which took over Wachovia in 2008, to change the signs. Over the last 14 years, the arena’s [...]

Hey, Philly: Nice work! Thanks to 90% of our young people being ineligible for military service because of criminal records, obesity or lack of education, that means none of ‘em will die fighting wars that will have never, ever been worth fighting. On the downside, they will likely die due to direct or indirect results [...]