For about 24-32 months in the mid-1990s, beauty — and any artistic inclination towards it — took a vacation from Philadelphia, if not the whole of the East Coast. As the underground got overcrowded, the good news was that you could go out just about any night of the week and smash your head on [...]

Gotta love politicians who make gross assumptions and then act on ‘em. We’ll call this latest one “fashion profiling.” With some of the funds from that $200,000 going towards witness protection, state senator Anthony Williams (pictured) wants to make the city safer by declaring war on white T-shirts. (No word on the colored variety, but watch [...]

Coming soon: Stephen Starr’s “Life Aquatic” theme restaurant? After years of uncertainty with bits of nearly-certain doom mixed in, the SS United States — which still holds the record for fastest Atlantic crossing of all time, doncha know — has been partially rescued by local philanthropist Gerry Lenfest, who’s just sunk $5.8 million towards the [...]

… in the NL All-Star Ballot.

The Palmer Social Club‘s former manager, Michael Weiss, has copped to a charge of “corruptly obstructing the administration of federal tax laws” in the Club’s ongoing tax fraud case. Weiss won’t be sentenced until October — he could be locked up for 10-16 months — but the real revelation here is that “a former Palmer [...]

Jonathan Storm has quite a scoop about The Surge: The Untold Story, a doc about the Bush Administration’s 2007 troop buildup in Iraq. According to Storm, the film “was produced by communications companies that work predominantly for the GOP and was financed by an ambassador who served in the Bush administration” — and what’s more, [...]