From the always excellent Shorpy blog.

PA’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has just announced the winners of their Community Conservation Partnerships Program Grant Program (PDF), and Philly did really well! If you will pardon the grant-ese speak, here’s where some money went locally: Philadelphia Center City District, $250,000 for development of Sister Cities Park to include construction of a [...]

This just in: The Big Piece will be doing the Top 10 List on tonight’s Late Show With David Letterman, via satellite from Citizen’s Bank Park. Things we anticipate in this list: Hopefully, at least one Tim Lincecum/Wiley Wiggins, something about whether or not Charlie Manuel and Chooch can actually speak English, and then like [...]

We always knew that it would be some dumb thing like this, and not Byko or dumb legislation, that would tear Philly’s bicycling community asunder. And so it goes: Some folks think these bike racks, freshly installed by the City (BTW – thanks, C.O.P., for if nothing else, at least having your hearts in the [...]

The very latest in your Rte. 15 trolley news: It’s going to stop at SugarHouse after all, as well as undergoing changes vis-a-vis ongoing efforts to improve the Girard Interchange and widen Interstate 95. This comes in the wake of general confusion and a community meeting wherein it was revealed once again that SEPTA only [...]

>>> The image at right is from the first Temptation! party at Silk City, held last month and which returns tonight. We’re drawing your attention to it, because if you’re nerdy enough to know what all those logos are, it makes a pretty succinct promise: Motown. Philadelphia International. Factory. Or, as we know them collectively, [...]

How is it that Pavement reunited before Ren And Stimpy did? Because we would not leave you out in the cold like that, after the jump, a special Wednesday afternoon treat for you.

As profiled in CoolHunting, the amazing, 20-by-30-foot steel structure lined with bulletproof glass known as Glassphemy will visit the Crane Arts Building tomorrow evening as part of DesignPhiladelphia. Here’s how it works: A person standing on one side can throw bottles at a friend or enemy who is standing in safety behind the clear wall [...]

Awww, hahahaha. Courtesy the phine pholks at Used Wigs.

As we mentioned the other day, this Saturday night, we’ll be checking out Phileb faves Mayer Hawthorne & The County with The Heavy (they do that “How You Like Me Now?” song) at the TLA. (No worries, Mayer should be hitting the stage after the Phils/Giants NLCS game.) You wanna come along for the fun? [...]

Just when we were considering following and covering the 76ers this year (season kicks off Weds. the 27th against Miami Heat) as a sort of grand sympathy fuck, they pull this move: The 76ers are using a tiered pricing system for tickets this season. Which is to say, you’ll be paying more (if you are [...]

Queried yesterday by a publicist about this event, our esteemed editor was heard to say: “Christ on a cracker. Do you have any kind of pictures we can run, like the two of these prizes getting ready to fight over a can of Red Bull or bottle of Valtrex or something?” Sadly, they didn’t. So [...]

J. Meejin Yoon’s Light Drift is a three-night installation along the Schuylkill River banks (between Market & Chestnut Streets) that will be up just for this weekend from dusk until dawn, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And it looks like it’s gonna be awesome. Yoon’s vacuum formed translucent shells will be positioned throughout the area, [...]

We were perusing this achievement of the human spirit on YouTube when the above ad was served up to us like a heaping helping of stupid. Paid for by Dee Adcock, who’s the GOP nom running against Allyson Schwartz in Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district (Montgomery County and the Northeast), the ad will take you to [...]

As you may recall, Philly’s own Comcast was named Consumerist’s Worst Company In America back in April. (“Your consistent dedication to providing low-quality service at ever-rising prices, and aversion to upholding basic internet principles while also buying off Washington and lobbying against net neutrality has earned you a place in our hallowed pantheon,” said the [...]

>>> Our annual Belle & Sebastian Dance Party comes but once a year, but we figured we’d also turn Tuesday, Oct. 12 — the release date for Write About Love, the new album from B&S — into a special occasion as well. So for this Tuesday’s Philebrity Salon, we’ll be listening to Write About Love [...]

Rather than be flustered by a co-worker’s advances, self-proclaimed “math phobe” and first time storyteller Zakiya was inspired to leave her job and face down an even greater foe: Calculus. The next First Person StorySlam is on Tuesday, October 26th at L’Etage. The theme is “Faking It.” More info at www.firstpersonarts.org. Look for videos of [...]

PhillyClout cracked it: The guy who threw the book at Obama was Sajid Ali Khan (pictured), NYC antiques dealer/non-profit education activist/thinker of thoughts. And, well, a few things: It wasn’t Atlas Shrugged (or Franzen, for that matter), it was his own book, Benefits Of Wisdom, he swears Biden approved the whole thing with his eyes, [...]

NO REALLY.

Did it bum you out that, somehow, the Philadelphia Union got one of those Pepsi Refresh grants to grow grass while little community groups are out there vying for the same pile of cash? Not to dis the Union, but c’mon. If you wanna turn the tide a little, the project to turn 2200 Catharine [...]