The South Street Bridge re-opens Today! The celebration begins at 2pm, along with a bike parade where pedestrians and cyclists can enjoy wider pedestrian walkways and bike lanes. A ceremony christening the bridge with Mayor Nutter starts at 3PM. The party lasts until 5PM, when car traffic resumes. The Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology [...]

FRIDAY: >>>First Friday Happenings: Bilenky Cycle Works Artistry In Steel Opening Exhibition at Art in the Age at 6PM. Structuring Desire/Desiring Structure 6PM – 8:30PM at Bridgette Mayer Gallery (709 Walnut St). It Was 20 Years Ago Today: photography by U. Arts faculty and alumni at Bambi Gallery from 6-10PM. VWVOFFKA Gallery- we don’t know [...]

You can see its (forgive me, but) “divine” rooftop letters gracing the skyline from most views north of City Hall, and we’ve all been wondering for years if anything is going to happen with this massive chunk of architectural majesty that is perched at Fairmount and Broad. According to Brownstoner and a press release this [...]

And the last one of the year before Christmas party season! Did we just say that? Oh God.

As soon as Nick Spitzer, folklorist and host of American Public Radio’s American Routes, gets on the phone, we’re talking about the golden days of vinyl-digging in Philly. From his reminisces of the old Discmakers plant here where they used to press up Folkways records to Matty “The Humdinger” Singer, a fella who used to [...]

We like that Dawes band well enough and all — “When My Time Comes” got us through some pretty rough stuff this year, and we’re not ashamed of the Dawson’s Creek of it all, not even for a second — but it’s impossible to pretend that days like this were not made for Vetiver. The [...]

While over in Camden, it’s mustaches and probation as usual. Via the endlessly fascinating but ultimately useless Trendsmap.com, which sorts people’s tweets by location.

Cats won’t die no matter what you do to them, and the harder you try, the more vet bills you rack up.

Guess who’s a fracker? Why, of course, The Most Disgusting Man In The World, Karl Rove! Rove was in Pittsburgh yesterday, very likely tipping his hand that Marcellus Shale drillers may well have contributed towards that magic mountain of mystery money that turned your parents’ brains to mush and helped create a GOP-er America. He [...]

>>> The funkiest man in Syria, Omar Souleyman (as seen above, and not for nothing, like whoa), checks into Johnny Brenda’s this evening. Hopefully, they still have the grilled haloumi on the menu. >>> Plus: In Grenada, one of our more favorite present-day local bands, plays Kung Fu Necktie with Bridges & Powerlines and Creeping [...]

Real talk: We (and everybody else in Philly media) has been relishing a Sam Katz Vs. Michael Nutter contest in 2011. From our perch, we honestly believe that Katz — especially to run as a Dem, as he says he might, and as soon as next week — is the only potential candidate out there [...]

Just a quick heads-up to our artist friends regarding the upcoming “Endangered City” show at Globe Dye Works in December. There’s a call for submissions/a “challenge to local artists, architects, historians, and urban explorers to express the inherent inspiration to be found in Philadelphia’s physical history; to encourage public awareness of endangered historic architecture; and [...]

Hey, remember in the 2000s, when every band in the world simultaneously decided that they were gonna include some kind of animal reference in their name? That was… curious. Some of these bands are still around, and some of you even still like them, and when many of you choose to like a band with [...]

It’s like we were telling you earlier: Love might not be dead. In the clip above (produced by Mural Arts), Canadian couple Todd and Meaghan take the Love Letter Tour and, well, Todd has a surprise. And it’s not the kind of surprise you usually find on the Market-Frankford Line. Aww.

Isn’t it delightful? This heavy-duty wooden railroad trestle bridge is currently located on Salford Station Road in Upper Salford, PA, and is currently up on municbids.com for only a hundred smackers. You know you want it. Here’s the difficult part: If you buy it, you have to have somewhere to take it. And a way [...]

… penis? It’s all of a piece, we suppose. Anyway, like the GOP, you guys totally deserved to win. You just ran a stronger campaign is all. We’ll see you next year, but please, for the love of all that is right and holy, tell Brian Wilson that his 14-year-old’s Metallica fan sign-off is corny [...]

The way we live now: So drunk on the hazy melancholy of the Great Recession that we’re actually enticed to spend $25 to trashpick at the Spectrum just before they tear it down forever. And now, I’m not shitting you. Crapping you negative, amigo: This Saturday, November 6 from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m., the [...]

As seen in the men’s bathroom at Sweat at 23rd and Walnut. Too bad I saw this after Halloween. At least I have a great costume for next yet; tranny potty clown. This is what I do at my desk all day. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Just a sampling of the inbox (and the Facebook, and the convo in every home and workplace) this morning: What a shitty day. Sestak was up by almost 10 points late into the night. Damn it. It’s like, America, why did you even bother with your vote in 2008 if you were going to turn [...]

Republicans have blanketed New England and this election. The general feeling is that Americans feel disillusioned by Obama’s presidency. Sheesh guys, did ya give him much of a chance? Meanwhile, the Tea Party gains its first senator, Rand Paul from Kentucky, the Pennsylvania governor’s race is won by Tom Corbett, and David Schuster says rural [...]