We’re gonna go out on a limb and support the much-buzzed music of Toronto’s Diamond Rings because A), yes, it is catchy and B) we will do literally anything to advance the cause of men wearing white jeans. Burn down the rock-critical establishment, old man, and go suck on a Decemberists record. We like people [...]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Kabletown® HQ today, as Comcast execs meet with representatives from Al Jazeera in an effort to get the cable provider to pick up Al Jazeera English on its systems. There’s plenty of reasons Comcast should pick up AJE — chief among them being the now [...]

Wherein Michael Tomasetti, member of Philly Improv Theatre (PHIT) Team Mayor Karen, imagines what would happen if the Geoffrey Rush character from The King’s Speech was a South Philly Sports Fan and the Mayor acted as if he had walked out of the Gilded Age. (Note: If the Tuxedo Boy does indeed run for Mayor, [...]

Perennial truth-to-power speakers The Committee of Seventy put City Council staffers on blast today for doing something that would get any other City Hall staff canned: Working on campaigns while in the employ of the City. This should seem like a no-brainer, but thanks to a loophole in City law, it stands present that Council [...]

Pennant Preview from Steve Varga on Vimeo. Pennant, a new iPad app that boasts baseball stats for every game, every team and every play of MLB ball since 1951, is using the Phils for their demo reel. We’re not crazy about the iPad (although we love that it’s making white men in their 50s scramble [...]

Well, that, and: It’s giving us confusing feelings that might be more appropriate for discussion on, oh, say, Fleshbot.

Yesterday, emerging online news guru C.W. Anderson (pictured) delivered a presentation at PhIJI, the Philadelphia Initiative for Journalistic Innovation at Temple University. Now, we tend to stay away from things like PhIJI because, though the work they do is good, they’re more a part of the mindset out there right now that believes media should [...]

If nothing else, let this be a lesson in two things: How much people will humor you if you’ve got enough money, and two, realizing that and knowing when to quit. And so it comes to pass that Tom Knox (pictured), whom 57% of Philadelphians did not recognize in a poll despite spending $13M on [...]

From Blossom Dearie to Birdie Busch, we’re going there this week. You’re going to want to tune in.

>>> We refrained from weighing in last week about the whole Central Bucks East High School teacher Natalie Munroe scandal, because we had a sneaking suspicion that there were no sympathetic characters here. Certainly not the local school district, who put her on administrative leave, after her anonymous comments on an anonymous blog were discovered; [...]

Get Schoolled: A weekly dispatch to the city of Philadelphia from the original gangster, Schoolly D. Philadelphia native Schoolly D is widely considered the original gangster rapper. Schoolly has recorded nine studio albums, including PSK, Saturday Night, Smoke Some Kill and Welcome to America. He has scored numerous films, such as King of New York [...]

Holy time warp! Though it may vanquish our edge forever, we must admit: We kinda wanna go. Here’s the potential dealbreaker, though: It’s a promo with 104.5 FM, which we like to call “THE DUDE” FM.

In the wake of an Inquirer story we posted about last week, local goth promoter Patrick Rodgers was the subject of this piece on CBS3 news — also known around here as “The Worst News” — about how he flipped the script on Wells Fargo. We would have loved to have been a fly on [...]

We’re not sure what is more insulting: The fact that every movie that films in Philly pays to swap out the street signs to make people think it’s New York, or the fact that Philadelphia is subbed in for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the trailer for the new comedy Cedar Rapids.

A reader who lost a bet and had to sign up for Rick Santorum‘s email list forwarded us this bit of nonsense from the erstwhile — wait, what does Santorum actually do now? — which was sent out on Friday. (Friday being, for some reason, the now-universally-accepted day in which the Palins and Craigslist Senators [...]

It seems like these young ladies, whom we’ve discussed before, have jumped the fourth wall and are now accompanying The Geator to his new weekly Wednesday night gig at Sugarhouse. Last week, he wowed them by ringing up Davy Jones of The Monkees — which, we admit, is a pretty rad party trick. Let it [...]

Gotta love the cheeriness there: “Have you heard the awesome news?” That’s right, these lovely people rolled into town over the weekend. Their pamphlets are apparently pretty mind-blowing. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Shaking Through: Port St Willow from Weathervane Music on Vimeo. Shaking Through Volume II, Episode 2 features Port St. Willow, which consists of Nick Principe, an amazing musician from Portland, of course, and Peter Silberman from The Antlers. The two grew up together and learned to write music by writing songs together, and this video for [...]

It’s so nice out, we can’t stand it. In the spirit of the warm weather, we’ll be at Johnny Brenda’s soon hosting happy hour and an emergency BBQ. Get outta work early, for the love of GOD, and come hang out. ELSEWHERES: >>> Art:Closing Reception for An Accidental Masterpiece Found @ Paradigm Gallery (6pm). >>> [...]

And by Greasy Lake, we mean JB’s. The weather’s so damned nice we just set up an EMERGENCY BBQ HAPPY HOUR from 5-10pm (consider it the “Big Gulp” of happy hours). JB’s owner Paul Kimport is gonna bust out the Weber and grill some smoked kielbasa out on the sidewalk, Sweeney is DJing, and he’s [...]