Hi Joe, Would love to talk to the heads about the party Friday. Said it all before, say it once a year, but would happily say it again. This party still means a lot to me even though we are old now and don’t really care about anything in quite the same way ten years [...]

At least that was our takeaway.

Oh, look who showed up for work today: Us, barely. It should not go un-noted that while a continent away, two crazy kids were getting ready to embark upon a beautiful lifetime of absurdity, here in Philly (as always), things were plenty beautiful and absurd already. “I’ve never been so nervous on a stage in [...]

>>> Do your eyeballs and your poor, abused brain a favor (or actually, more abuse in a way, but a fun and healthy way, we think) and check out International House’s Pop Cinema, a massive three-day overview of the pop art movement in cinema. (Above, some vintage Stan Vanderbeek, for example.) Pop Cinema is the [...]

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Pretty much at the same time as the egregious treatment of UPenn student Christopher Abreu was occurring and he was writing his letter to the Daily Pennsylvanian, another student was writing a letter to the editor in response to some other Penn student malfeasance. The Zeta Psi fraternity at UPenn now has their head under [...]

… as a result of budget cuts. On the other hand, couldn’t they just fire Arlene Ackerman 3,820 times? No? Well, it’s nice to dream at least.

Black Flag at the Elks Center, back in the day.

The continuing saga of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the financial limbo they’re in has continued to get stranger and stranger. Who’s willing to come to the cash-strapped institution’s aid? Why, PETA, of course. The animal rights organization said that they would be more than willing to help out the orchestra… if the orchestra agrees to [...]

Regular readers of this site know that we’ve got a lot of respect for and interest in both Indy Hall, the co-working space that has come to define the city’s young tech scene, and PostGreen, a local environmentally friendly design and development team that’s brought you such projects as the $100K House. But we think [...]

More genius than the original tagger could ever even have hoped to hope for.

Turns out everyone in South Philly must have watched Exit Through The Gift Shop on Hulu. Just saw this on Passyunk Ave and on Bainbridge: Oh, “Hanksy.” Get it? Haaaaa. Groan. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

>>> Big night for live music tonight, but pardon us if we start off with a kind of oddball pick that we’re nonetheless really excited about: Tonight at Kung Fu Necktie, Gerhardt Koerner plays his second solo show in a few months (he’s on early at 8PM). You may remember Koerner from Hi Soft a [...]

Oh My God! Katie Couric! We just heard you might interview for a job at Comcast! You totally, totally SHOULD! Can we just say? YOU WILL LOVE IT HERE. Have you ever been on Walnut Street? YOU HAVE TO GO TO PARC AND ROUGE! We should go together! Do you know this girl Nicole Cashman? [...]

Once a year, on behalf of Belle & Sebastian and all who sail in them, we reclaim Old City in the very location where we first danced to New Order and The Smiths, at the birth of this nation. This Friday, we do it all over again. We’d love for you to join us.

Framing the birth certificate release around Sasha and Malia getting static on the playground? Why, it’s perfect in a million ways. Do something like this once a day for the next 365, please; we could and want to love you again. It’s not completely broken, you know.

So, here’s Mayor Michael Nutter at Time on Sansom Street last night, doing “Rapper’s Delight.” Again. While we’re a little puzzled on his fixation with this classic track in particular, we’re also kind of enamored that Nutter apparently is out and about in the bars every bit as much as we are. It’s like that [...]

Just like he did a year ago, State Senator Daylin Leach (D-17) has introduced a medical marijuana bill to the PA House. (You can read the bill here.) Last year’s bill died on the vine, but things are a little different this year. For one, Senators Larry Farnese (whom many of you voted for), James [...]

A regular reader writes in with a good point about all of this “Shirtless Thugs” activity recently: You know, posting his tags is like the best thing he could ever hope for and 100% encouraging him to keep going, right? He was definitely at the Barbary last night. I saw his tags pop up in [...]

Penn Kids. Specifically, undergrad Penn Kids from far-flung suburbs of the world who come here and barely engage with the city at all, deluded in a haze of privilege that allows them to forget that, real talk, Penn is the armpit of the Ivy League and they’re keeping up appearances by the hair of their [...]