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Like many of us, the brass at Philadelphia Media Network, Inc. — the new corporate entity (sometimes known here also as The Groovie Ghoulies) that controls the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com — have wasted no time getting some of their goals for 2011 on the board. Chief among them, it would seem, is [...]

Open House from Michael Friedman on Vimeo. The Super Man is a great little web sitcom created by and starring Philly expat Mike Friedman. In the show, Friedman plays an aspiring boxer in Los Angeles, who’s taken a job as a super on an apartment complex in exchange for free rent, only to have his [...]

Please stop sending us any and all links to “Philadelphia Accent” YouTube videos. They’re annoying as fuck, and we have a creeping suspicion that the people making them, at this late date, might be even less interesting and slower-on-the-take than the people who haven’t trained themselves out of the accent in the first place. (Also, [...]

The new-ish gallery space in Fishtown just hit their funding goal for materials for a new gallery on Kickstarter. Oh, and, Weathervane Music hit their funding goal and beyond. In fact, there’s a whole bunch of Philly projects going for funding on Kickstarter presently — almost to many to sift through. Commenters: Anybody got any [...]

Since they began playing reunion gigs a couple of years ago, there’s been talk that legendary Philly band The Dead Milkmen were working on new material. Now, we know for sure that the talk is real. Philebrity has learned that the Milkmen have just completed tracking 17 new songs for a full-length album to be [...]

Saw in today’s paper that both the Daily News and Inquirer are raising their daily price from $0.75 to $1 Jan. 31st. Sunday’s paper will remain the same, $1.75 Can you imagine paying a $1 for the Saturday Daily News? Yes, but only in a situation where someone is looking for a classy way to [...]

In case you stopped paying attention somewhere along the line (who could blame you!), the Untitled James L. Brooks Film starring Jack Nicholson, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd that was shooting around town in 2009 has grown a real name, and come out. It’s called How Do You Know (minus a question mark, [...]

Making Time New Year’s Eve 2011 Countdown with Dave P & Sammy Slice from Dave P on Vimeo. For the New Year’s Eve edition of Making Time, promoters Dave P and Sean Agnew booked 90 Degrees (which used to be Transit) and had all their friends DJ. But perhaps the most key thing they did [...]

Here, then, is a curious case for you: Arety, who formed in Northeast Philly in 1974, and cut a Cheap Trick/Big Star-ish figure on a local scene that one could argue has never had enough love for that kind of thing. (Free Energy, you should be paying attention to these guys. We think they might [...]

WTF, indeed. Plus, news on the new Fork & Barrel outpost, and au revoir to the Swift Half.

The Richie Antipuna Show is a video podcast talk show straight out of Kensington, hosted by Richie Antipuna and Heather Barton. As you can imagine, since the Kensington Strangler attacks, the show has heated up. In this most recent episode, community volunteers Greg Bucceroni and Manuel “CHINO” Sanchez talk about the tense relationships in the [...]

He’s wild, he’s mild, he’s Kyle Andrews and tonight, he’s all yours. Kyle will be manning the decks tonight, playing selections from what has got to be one of the most deeply groovy record collections in the entire city. And, as ever, Anders Larson pours the drinks.

Last week, when we were all re-ancting that Waitresses song and indeed pretending it was 1983, exiting champion/tight bro of the Beach Boys Ed Rendell sent nice letters to a bunch of local projects letting them know that they would be getting the state funding they applied for (some of ‘em controversial, like $2M for [...]

>>> In case you missed it, last week, there was yet another attack on a prostitute that may or may not be attributed to the Kensington Strangler, but the details still remain uncertain. [NBCPhiladelphia] >>> … which gets us to a point raised by Isaiah Thompson at The Clog, among others: Could there be more [...]

We’d repost it here, but it’s AP, so we’ll just link to this AP-compiled map of Marcellus Shale wastewater that’s just lingering around there lest they whine. The map is notable for two reasons: One is that, hey, Neshaminy Creek is looking kinda borked by all of this, and two, this is one of the [...]

Because the fact is, though newly-appointed Sheriff Barbara Deeley (pictured) is making history as the first female sheriff of the City of Philadelphia, she may also wind up being part of an investigation that could be historic in less noble ways. Up until Friday, Deeley was Chief of Staff for Sheriff John Green, who stepped [...]

I have weird feelings about that Burger King, too.

After the jump, we look into our crystal ball, which may or may not be a large, mid-day beer. Topics discussed: The Northern Liberties Pathmark, the Four Horsemen, Mayor Michael Nutter, self-identifying hipsters and Mt. Airy. You had better pray to God we’re wrong about most of this shit.