As no less than four separate investigations go on, examining the actions surrounding the scandalized Philadelphia Housing Authority and former director Carl Greene, four top PHA execs have been suspended in Greene’s wake under suspicion that they were part of the clusterfuck that resulted in $38.5M worth of outside legal services for PHA — much [...]

Fear not: As of just a few minutes ago, Sweeney has been pronounced in stable condition and is recuperating in Old City as we speak. Happy Monday, everybody!

Last night we were invited to the hanging of print show, A Nation of Evil Men, at Masthead Studios, curated by Sam Heimer, sponsored of course by Masthead’s Shawn Hileman, in coordination with the Philly Cartoonist Society. The opening is tonight, in the little white box on the second floor of 340 Brown Street, and [...]

TONIZZLE: For those of you who aren’t going to see Girl Talk, there are plenty of glorious events for your perusal this evening, such as: Ars Nova Workshop presents: Acid Birds, Planet Y @ Kung Fu Necktie (8pm, $8, 21+). Blank Dogs, Far Out Fangtooth @ The M Room (8pm, $10, 21+). Chinese New Year: [...]

RECOMMENDED: Real talk: It is our sincere belief that Paul Giamatti has been doing a quite but rugged form of penance ever since Sideways, the results of which have slowly but surely put him way back in the black. He was about as fine as an actor can be John Adams a few years back, [...]

Surrounded by skanks at the Wing Bowl this morning, world champion professional competitive eater Kobayashi donned a Flyers jersey and ate a cheesesteak in 24.3 seconds, just for shits and giggles. (He’ll be back next year, possibly competing in the main event.) But we know you can make a better caption for this photo than [...]

I mean, if you don’t have an extra TV laying around, WHAT IS AMERICA EVEN FOR? We have an URGENT need for a donated TV!!! You can save the Super Bowl party we planned for the formerly homeless men at our St. Elizabeth’s Recovery Residence. We will pick up in the Philadelphia area. Contact info [...]

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I mean, yes, he allowed The View and DeSean Jackson to have a very tender moment indeed, but the whole thing left us feeling a little creeped out. Should his identity have been protected? Is the takeaway here that getting bullied mercilessly and having your ass kicked on YouTube is somehow ameliorated by a sympathy [...]

William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Chew, John Dickinson, Thomas Cadwalader, Samuel McCall, Samuel Mifflin, Robert Morris and Edmund Physick — the names that pretty much built this city from nothing — all owned slaves. This 2003 Inky piece by Melissa Dribben, discussing the book Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath has been [...]

On this, Philly.com’s single most important content-gathering day of the year, thousands of shameful animal-fucktards (most of them foul suburban descendants of white-flighters, some of them sadly still our own citizenry) gathered to witness a man called “Super Squibb,” who seems to have a very unhealthy vagina affixed to his face, win that great national [...]

Hey guess what? Eddie’s back!

Devendra Banhart at Rainbow House from Oliver Peoples on Vimeo. And so it’s your problem now.

· The increase of overtime spending in the Fire Department despite the brownout policy Mayor Nutter enacted last summer: $1.6 Million  · Number of smoke alarms that firefighters installed for free in homes across the city in an attempt to decrease fire-related deaths: 16,000  · Number of protesters in Egypt who turned to self-immolation: 2   · Number of hours a burning bag in [...]

This is your Frick on Google. File under Insanely Cool Things That Are Not At All Going To Help With Your Insomnia: The just-launched Google Art Project, “a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.” [...]

Cripes. [Graphic: Philadelphia Inquirer]

Tell the truth: They were one of the greatest of our time. We’ll miss you, old friends. And please, please, please: No more Raconteurs records. Please, no.

One disgusted Daily News/Philebrity reader writes in: [Here's Gensler,] Poking fun at girls who had their lives ruined by the scumbag from Girls Gone Wild. If he worked for a real newspaper, he would probably be fired for being insensitive. And even more fantastic, I came across the article on the yahoo.com homepage. It’s one [...]

In the SMS inboxes of Pennsylvanians everywhere, from your personal friend Barack Obama right now: Tell Sen. Toomey that PA is counting on him to uphold health care for 32 million people. Call him at 202-224-4254 now. Not likely, but call the bastard up anyway.