Annnd that would be Action News‘ Dann Cuellar, caught using some sort of make-me-a-funny-status bot. Yep. He’s that guy.

Either that, or Nick Denton has decided to alienate readers further with a “bold new alphabet redesign.” Weird. Anyone else encountering a messed-up Safari browser casualty like this today? It’s gone now, but it was MOST DISORIENTING.

… here they are, covering the “Angry Birds” theme song. That oughta do the trick. (Sorry, everybody.) Previously: National Beat: Entire Country Now Engaged In Debate Over Whether They Or Not They Want To Punch Pomplamoose In The Face

The Marian Anderson Award, presented annually to “those individuals who have used their talents for personal artistic expression coupled with a commitment to the betterment of society,” was given to actress and human rights activist Mia Farrow last night. In a ceremony at the Kimmel Center, Mayor Michael Nutter presented the award to Farrow, citing [...]

Because we are boob-tube obsessed philistines who never met a chat show we couldn’t sit through, we have caught quite a bit of Tina Fey‘s TV rounds promoting Bossypants — which, the more we hear about, the less we wanna read it. (Already jumped-to conclusion: She’s not telling us anything really, and it feels like [...]

Above is the poster image for the upcoming exhibition To-day is Another Day, Make Art (Art in the Great Recession), curated by Steven Earl Weber and set to open this Saturday at the Pterodactyl space up yonder in Port Fishington. The group show, spanning a variety of local artists and mediums, “addresses several aspects of [...]

Al West, the founder and CEO of SEI Investments and his daughter, Paige West, will receive the Fleisher Art Memorial Founder’s Award at its Annual Benefit on June 9. Paige is the curator of the West Collection, one of the largest private art collections in the country. Matthew Braun, Executive Director at Fleisher Art Memorial [...]

In the five years since it’s been open, we haven’t really given much thought to Zee Bar, the after-hours club that’s next to Delilah’s in that strip mall at Front and Spring Garden, across from the gas station where they sell bongs. But just last week, a friend dragged us there — it was late, [...]

Theme songs are great, aren’t they? Everyone should have one. And now John Kromer, candidate for the Sheriff’s office, does. (Kromer is in a field that currently stands at four or five, depending on whether or not you count Cheri Honkala.) Sounding somewhere in between “A Boy Named Sue” and a slowed down “The Devil [...]

Check out this little buddy: Over in the old Calder Park, over by 22nd & Parkway, there’s a place where two friends can bat back and forth a small plastic ball in the out of doors, playing in the sun and with the wind. It’s a place where you can finally feel free, and let [...]

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>>> Did you know that in under ten weeks, beloved bartender Anders Larson will be leaving America for the forseeable future? He’s moving to Vienna to study. So now’s the time to stock up on, uh, Anders. We’ll be doing and saying more about this as Anders’ final exit draws nearer, but do drop by [...]

BYKO IS GOING TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM! BUT YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH FACTS! READ THE BICYCLE COALITION’S PDF HERE! THAT’S A PDF, I SAID! IT STAND FOR PUBLIC DOCUMENT, FUCKER! WE RULE!

We’re a few days late on this one, but with the release of Man Man’s Life Fantastic today, you can stream the album in full on AOL Music and Stereogum. Life Fantastic, the exuberantly experimental rock band’s fourth album, was recorded in Omaha, Nebraska with Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk) taking on production [...]

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Mark Segal from the Philadelphia Gay News just sent this to us. Man, is he gonna be miffed when he finds out what City Council incumbent Jim Kenney really looks like. (For the record, the young man pictured here is actually Matthew Shepard, but you wouldn’t know it from anything on the flyer. Also, God-DAMN [...]

Brolo Hill Project from Jennie Thwing on Vimeo. Though she’s exhibited at the ICA, Nexus and various places throughout the world, the work of video artist Jennie Thwing was news to us. Thwing, who’s based in Philly and teaches at Rowan University, uses live action and stop-motion animation to create pieces that run the gamut [...]

The Daily News is reporting that, according to NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (along with other regional CSN Networks) will soon be known as NBC Sports Philadelphia (also check out the DN story to see Ebersol’s classy yet patriotic American flag sweater; two thumbs up). Ebersol, speaking on NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s [...]

Just after we closed up shop yesterday, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the first round of winners for their newest three-year, $9M arts funding project, the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. Picking among 1,700 submissions from the Philadelphia area — all of them aiming to answer the question, “What’s your best idea [...]

Philadelphia Magazine staff writer, investigative reporter, and straight-shooter Steve Volk’s first book, Fringe-ology is hitting bookshelves both physical and digital June 7th. Volk describes the book as “my attempt to reconcile a mysterious ghost story from my childhood with my lifelong, down to earth occupation as a journalist.” Volk has been working as a city [...]