Posted earlier today in reply to “Big Belly Trash Can, You Lying Whore”: this is amazing for me. My company takes broken umbrellas off the streets, out of the trash cans and repurposes them through upcycling into made to order dog coats, hats and other things. Last year when the Phils went to the World [...]

>>> Three Philly cops have been charged with getting into the heroin business, staging fake arrests, and helping other heroin dealers… only to get caught trying to sell said heroin to an undercover DEA agent. Nice work, fellas. [KYW] >>> The sad drunk who broke into Philadelphia International Records and torched the joint has pled [...]

U2 have announced a make-up date for their earlier Philly show that nobody bought tickets for which was postponed due to Bono’s back injury: It’ll be on July 14th, 2011 at the Linc. That ought to give everybody lots of time to heal their backs, solve the crisis surrounding the sagging big-ticket concert sales, and [...]

You know, you read a story like this, and you think: That’s the kind of obstinate stupidity you only really get in Philly. Whether it’s true or not, it still resonates, and as the investigation into last week’s Duck Boat tragedy moves on, Anonymous Tugboat Crew Guy (pictured, in the near future, at right) is [...]

Bad behavior took center stage at last night’s First Person Arts StorySlam. The theme “Criminal Intent” brought out stories of backhanded Scrabble moves, Halloween assaults involving whips, rape allegations, petty theft, breaking and entering, concealed weapons, arrest warrants, library fines and blue paper onesies. But when it came right down to it, Aaron Stella bowled [...]

Singin’ it Lonesome Mix 2.0 by stevenwardjames We’re talking, of course, about Singin’ It Lonesome, the classic country DJ night with DJs Steven W. James & Maximum Shine that re-appears this Sunday night at Kung Fu Necktie. Flyer after the jump.

It was 25 years ago today that Live Aid went down at the beloved, belated JFK Stadium. More clips from that historic event after the jump.

Play it at Tauntr. [H/t The Clog]

A reader passes along to us this curious urban specimen (with shades of American Psycho): Rittenhouse ad guru Elliott Curson‘s business card, which somehow manages to skeev us out a little bit as well as present itself for possibly the best venue for a Buzz Bissinger pullquote ever. And on that note, BUZZ, IF YOU [...]

Back in June, we reported that budget cutbacks had forced WXPN to cut the principal staff of its Y-Rock On XPN streams, themselves refugees from previous commercial radio endeavors. Well, with the ink barely dry on those unemployment checks, Y-Rock’s core of Josh T. Landow, Joey O. and others have resurfaced as Y-Not Radio, a [...]

City controller Alan Butkovitz is not happy. According to an investigation his office just conducted, the City of Philadelphia overpaid for those Big Belly solar trash compactors it bought last year to the tune of at least $200,000. And that’s not the half of it: The City report also says that Big Belly’s promises for [...]

>>> Jaguar Wright, you better hope your face doesn’t freeze that way! At Johnny Brenda’s tonight, however, it probably won’t. >>> You gotta wonder what kind of pretentious asshole names an album something like “/\/\/\Y/\.” In this case, it’s the M.I.A. kind, and over at Elena’s Soul and Showcase Lounge at 49th & Baltimore, they’ll [...]

· Finally: Korean Fried Chicken Hits Meritage · This Merde Is Bananas: Bastille Day Rundown · Matt Levin’s New Restaurant Is So Matt Levin All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Whoops, sorry, that’s no Loko, it’s just fleshy orange robot Zac Efron with The 10! Show‘s Bill Henley. [Via thetenshow on TwitPic]

Right click here to download, more at Be Frank Records. We’ve always thought of Birdie Busch as a kind of young journey-woman singer-songwriter, a Laura Nyro or Joni Mitchell type existing in this awful new world where “Artists & Repetoire” development no longer exists, and as a result, you’re either a star the first time [...]

And so it comes to pass that one Kristin Bitting (pictured) — she works in that bar you go to, and that place where your friend bought those shoes — has joined the exalted ranks of Philadelphians Who Have Appeared On Network Reality Shows, or as we like to call them, Gervase Nation. (Somebody get [...]

Oh, Veteran’s Stadium: You soooo had it coming.

We are increasingly convinced that humans will be debating the fate of the South Philly Foxwoods casino long after there has ceased to be humans, or money. After the extravagant hairpiece known as Steve Wynn bailed on the ill-fated project a few months ago, it is now coming to light that the Harrah’s casino group [...]

Just as we were wrapping up on Friday, the story broke that The Groovie Ghoulies (aka the creditors now running the asylum that is the Inky and Daily News) made nice with the Newspaper Guild, granting a contract that guarantees no layoffs for the first year. But it wasn’t all fantastic news for Guild members: [...]