Handmade Portraits: Liberty Vintage Motorcycles from Etsy on Vimeo. Via Etsy, of all places, comes this great little video about longtime Philly motorcycle guru Adam Cramer, of Liberty Vintage Motorcycles, wherein dude speaks remarkable truths. Maybe we should run this guy for mayor.

Maybe. Exiting City Councilman Frank DiCicco made news the other day by announcing that he wouldn’t run for reelection (because he preferred DROP money) amidst reports that Bob Brady brokered a deal in which DiCicco would throw his support behind First District Council candidate Mark Squilla. Earlier today, he emailed his supporters (which, who knew, [...]

Even for a DJ team known for its often hilarious/mind-bending flyers, we’ve gotta hand it to them for “Sorry, We’re Broadzilla!” It’s sublime, and clever, and for all we know, true. That this was on the window of Trax Market is even funnier. The Broadzilla kids check back into Kung Fu Necktie this Saturday night. [...]

Arrow Swim Club, set to open this summer in Northern Liberties, is likely to be a favorite of local Photoshopped women. Have you heard about Arrow Swim Club? Sure, you have. Though the club isn’t slated to open for a few months, it’s already become one of those I’m Not A Hipster But Oh Yes [...]

Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the actress who played “Snoop” in The Wire, was arrested, along with more than 30 others, in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation in Baltimore this morning. No word just yet on the whereabouts of that nail gun.

After Boston and Los Angeles and Portland and San Diego; after Lynne Abraham’s scathing indictment of the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s obfuscating pattern of reassignments; after the Vatican was caught –- cardinal handed, no less -– ordering Irish Bishops to refrain from turning over their pedophiles to the police, and then providing diplomatic safe haven for Bernard [...]

We began this week by discussing the sad and awful interview former Phillies hero/present-day hobo Lenny Dykstra gave to NBC 10 over the weekend. If you’ve been paying to the Dykstra saga over the last couple of years — it’s like The Book Of Job as told by Kenny Powers — you probably weren’t to [...]

A modem company called Zoom Telephonics took Das Kabletown® to court for something so rooky-dook, only Comcast would do it: Making such weird rules and protocols for modems used on Comcast’s Internet pipes that they would be the only people who had modems that would actually work on their own system. “Comcast’s new testing rules [...]

Mayor Nutter will announce Philadelphia’s 2010 Census population count at 3:45PM this afternoon. The most recent info before that, dating to July 2008, clocks Philly at 1,447,395. What do you think? We going up or down? UPDATE: We’re up! Philadelphia’s 2010 population count is 1,526,006, which is a 0.557% increase over the 2000 Census of [...]

Do I have an overactive imagination, or do you see what I see in Macy’s wrap for yesterday’s Metro? If you’re talking about a pair of lovely beige ballslacks that are perfect for this spring, then yes!

It’s a ballsy move, and we like it: Longtime activist and executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) Cheri Honkala has decided to run for Sheriff of Philadelphia for the express purpose of pretty much one thing: If she’s elected, she says she won’t throw people whose homes have been foreclosed upon out [...]

Over at 700, we’re paying tribute to Brasilian roots, but there’s lots of other stuff going on tonight as well: The Franklin is doing a cool thing for Mardi Gras, Toy Soldiers/TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb at World Cafe Live, plus Sic Alps/Magik Markers/Purling Hiss at the Rotunda.

Handed in his signatures today. May God have mercy on all of us.

Real talk: If we wanted to see a hipster baby avant indie noise project, we’d go to any brunch spot in Fishtown or East Passyunk. Good on you, Spinto Band, and good luck down at SXSW. To see what other Philly bands are playing in Austin this week, click here.

“You can’t act with impunity,” Mondesire said of the school district. “You can’t fire someone because they object to a policy. We don’t tolerate a person’s constitutional right to disagree with a policy to be violated.” — Daily News Previously: From Teacher Jail To Termination

Tomorrow from 5-8PM at the Ethical Society Building, on 1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, Earthship Biotecture will be holding a seminar and Q & A. Earthship Biotecture is an international housing concept that uses recyclable materials to produce housing structures and has Earthships in the United States, Spain, Haiti, France and India, among many others. Earthships [...]

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Juggalo Sunday from Secret Pants on Vimeo. From our friends Secret Pants — who just the other day gave us as impassioned an argument for the local comedy scene as you’re likely to hear — a brand new creation, bearing a timeless message: The family that rocks (in facepaint) together, stays together.

I saw this on Ellsworth just west of Broad – not sure if it was (incorrectly spelled) commentary on the state of music today or referring to someone else entirely, but it was interesting. So weird: As soon as we opened this email, “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath came on the AKA Music stereo system [...]

This is what you see if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of any page on City Paper’s website now. Gross. Well, the easy answer is that the brains left. (Most of ‘em, anyway, leaving poor Isaiah Thompson and few others twisting in the wind.) But really: We were the first folks [...]