Governor Rendell declared the Marcellus Shale tax dead for 2010 last week, due to Republicans being assholes who wouldn’t agree to anything higher than a 1.5% tax. One-point-five percent. Jesus. That’s what we get for subjecting our state to fracking and the threat of erupting natural gas wells? Anyway, the Governor today decided that if [...]

The Philadelphia Housing Authority has been out of the news for, what, a week and a half now? Who knows? The sordid saga may even be drawing to an end now that Carl Greene has apparently disappeared off the face of the earth. It just seems statistically impossible that any more corruption from that particular [...]

If it ain’t broke, we ain’t fixin’ it: Fishtown Jazz Odyssey will be back at 700 tonight for their monthly session at Philebrity Salon, Philly’s only weekly DJ night devoted to jazz and other music. The group plays sets at 10PM and midnight, and as always, admission is free.

Someone calling themselves “Little Coco” went out and annoyed the passersby of Philadelphia yesterday, presumably to drum up interest in Conan O’Brien‘s November debut on TBS. We’re not suggesting you watch this, we’re just telling you that it happened.

We’ve written before about the leafy-green legal troubles of Makeda Jahnesta Marley, the youngest of Bob Marley‘s thirteen children, who was caught with eleven marijuana plants in her Caln home in 2009. She was sentenced yesterday to seven years of probation, which she chose over a two to 23 month stint in Chester County Prison. [...]

Surprise! One Book, One Philadelphia — the annual project between the Mayor’s Office and the Free Library of Philadelphia that joins the entire city in the reading of a single title — will be back for 2011, and this year, they’ve chosen Sherman Alexie’s War Dances, a collection of short stories and poems — a [...]

UK indie trio Standard Fare wrote a song for us, and it’s totally sweet. Youse guys are welcome anytime.

As discussed since last summer, Harrah’s has officially partnered with the floundering Foxwoods casino chain and will be moving forward with plans for a South Philly casino, which could be up and running in as little as 20 months. The casino, on Delaware between Tasker and Reed, will feature 1,500 slot machines and 70 table [...]

>>> Back for Autumn 2010: Ol’ Grisly Philadelphia, just like they used to make it back in the days of Heidnik and MOVE. In case you forget, this is how Philly does Recession, how Philly does Smited By The World (Series), how Philly just… does. And so, from the bowels of Northeast Philly, we present [...]

Ever since the playoffs ended unceremoniously for the Phillies, leaving the whole city blue-balled in the search for another World Series, we’ve all been complaining about what went wrong, what could have been, and so on, ad infinitum. All the while, we’ve been taking for granted the world-class team we have and will (for the [...]

During the three years when we ran this shop out of Fishtown, one thing about the local populace’s woes was evidently clear on a pretty much daily basis: A lot of it could be attributed to pills. Over the last decade or so, Oxyzombies — and among their numbers we counted both users and sellers, [...]

Each of us, in our own time and fashion, has had to consider that Allen Iverson is not what he once was to us. For some, Iverson’s tale is a Kenny Powers-esque parable about the spoils of success and the pratfalls of ego; for others, it’s just sad. But this week, A.I. is learning what [...]

A little while ago, we read this article about how Tom Corbett called one of Dan Onorato‘s ads “despicable and unforgivable,” and we found ourselves nodding along with it until we realized Corbett wasn’t talking about this one, in which Dan Onorato shot himself in the foot by publicly acknowledging that no one knows who [...]

The King Of The White Girls shall remain, of course, but what of his natural yang — the bearded don’t-tread-on-me woodsman the government calls Jayson Werth and every girl in Philly calls “Daddy?” He might already be gone forever. Werth showed up at Citizens Bank Park today to clean out his locker and trade maybe-so’s-and-maybe-no’s [...]

Hey, we know it’s Monday and you are all really, really busy, but remember: You only have until Friday to send your sealed bid if you wanna buy some used Silverliner II & III Passenger Railcars from SEPTA. You can see here just what it is you’d be buying, and yes, you’re right: One of [...]

The way we live now: Northern Liberties, pretty much completely covered in video cameras. They seem to prevent no crime at all, but the upshot is that they do provide much-needed content to the NoLibs messageboard (and, by extension and when the news day is slow enough, this site as well). Today’s entertainment: The NoLibs [...]

As bicyclists continue to push forward in their plan to rule the city, they’ll be meeting at the 23rd St. Armory this weekend, October 30th and 31st, for the first annual Philadelphia Bike Expo, presented by Stephen Bilenky‘s Bilenky Cycle Works in partnership with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. The Expo goes all weekend, [...]

M. Night Shyamalan appeared at the Philadelphia Film Festival last week for a special 10th anniversary screening of Unbreakable, an event so whatever it boggles the mind. Nevertheless, when someone asked him about it, Shyamalan went on for an amazing 3 minutes and 44 seconds, which we can paraphrase thusly: “I acted like I thought [...]

On this much we can all agree: The South Philly Walmart is perhaps the darkest emotional corner of the entire city of Philadelphia. Sure, there are plenty of places that are in greater disrepair, more riddled with crimes both petty and capital, but no place we can think of locally will inspire more instant despair, [...]

We briefly got very excited when we learned that the Dos Equis “Most Interesting Show in the World” would be passing through town this week, for one reason and one reason alone: A chance to meet The Most Interesting Man In The World (pictured). But alas: Somehow, something called the “Most Interesting Show in the [...]