Keith Haring, Untitled (computer head), ca. 1980 – 1983. Chalk on black paper, 34.5” x 45”. Collection of Larry Warsh. Keith Haring artwork © Keith Haring Foundation. Photo credit: Aaron Igler, Greenhouse Media. Haring-heads take note: The exhibit Keith Haring: Subway Drawings is currently on view (through April 27) at Arcadia University. The show focuses [...]

When we received a press release bearing the headline “HORNSTEIN PLANS TO MAKE PHILLY LESS WEIRD” earlier today, our gut instinct was, “Oh, hell no. Aren’t all the boring new transplants from the Midwest already doing that to us?” Regular readers of this site know we deeply cherish this city’s inherent, wild weirdness and that [...]

Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears from Riverhorse on Vimeo. Trailer for Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears, a new doc in production about Philly icon and legendary boxer, joe Frazier. Recently finished, the film will screen in NYC next month. No word yet on Philly screenings.

Take THAT, people who got all bent out of shape about the White People Pillow Fight post! [Photo: HughE Dillon]

Can someone please address these? What are they? Unless of course the story behind them is less interesting than not knowing. Ooh, we think we might actually know the answer to this urban mystery: As best as we’ve been able to surmise, these “stacks” or whatever they’re called exist for the express purpose of homeless [...]

So, here’s the whole thing with that Comcast/NBC deal: To make the courts roll over and let it happen — thereby continuing Comcast’s “lucky” streak of being able to do vaguely monopolistic things but never really suffer the consequences — Comcast had to agree to launch 10 independently owned and operated networks over the next [...]

Taken at a charter school in Olde City (which is part of a system a certain talk show host just donated a lot of money to). I’m a lowly sub (and lowlier grad student), and I see this shit literally at every school I go to — teachers who can`t spell to save their lives [...]

>>> Hey, Meaningless Citizen! Are you prepared for the big Wachovia/Wells Fargo switchover later this month? Who cares, they’ve got problems of their own: For one thing, the exiting Wachovia giant may or may not have been involved with laundering Mexican drug money to the sweet ol’ tune of gazillions of dollars. While raping you [...]

Spotted at Thompson and Huntingdon: We’re still waiting on final tallys from this weekend’s Philly Spring Cleanup, but we know this: If it got just one of the many pants on the ground in Philly off the ground and into a trash can, well, it was all worth it. Seeing something around town of note? [...]

Just like we told you it would, International Pillow Fight Day hit Philly over the weekend. Above, via Workers Of The East, is video proof, prompting nothing but questions and groans: Anybody else clocking a lot of Bieber hair in this thing? Also, are these people who actually live in Philadelphia? And what’s up with [...]

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 [...]

Kurt Vile New video from the Smoke Ring For My Halo LP, as debuted on MTV this morning. MTV!

It’s enough to make you go all Tea Party (sort of) and feel like, “Wow, the U.S. government has abandoned governing America in favor of… attempting to govern everyone else.” With equally shitty results. Maybe even worse!

So says the Post/Gawker, and yeah, that’s about right. Awkward feelings and uncomfortable memories in the DN offices today.

There is a basic rule of thumb in a reader’s life that we just made up but actually sounds reliable: In a given year, if you read more than one book penned by a person famous for something other than writing books, you’re doing it wrong. So if it was OK to pick up that [...]

… you got the text announcing the Obama 2012 campaign this morning and your gut reaction was, “Wow, dude. This is kind of a shitty time to ask. I don’t know. Who else have we got?”

For once, all is right in this world. Honestly, there should be a person on staff at PMA whose job it is to see that Rocky is always kept in exactly this condition. Until that bright morning comes when we can just destroy the fucking thing altogether. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Do you like the various Brat Productions shows that carpetbomb Philly’s theater scene, year in/year out, with rude humor and an almost punk sensibility but you feel like you’re missing a piece of the puzzle? Fill in the gaps tonight with “BRATwurst – Too Cool For School,” a kind of Brat sampler, at [...]

RECOMMENDED: Juliette Binoche nabbed Best Actress at Cannes for her work in Certified Copy, but that’s not why I’m recommending it this week. I’m recommending it because I’m man-struating and it seems like the most lovely thing in the world to sit in one of the Ritzes this weekend in a theater full of old [...]