FRIDAY: >>> Dept. of Weird Vibes On A Tall Ship: Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics) and Jessica Delfino (Comedy Master) help bring meriment to the deck of the Gazela on Penns Landing. Murder Ballads, Sea Shanties, and ribald tales. All proceeds benefit the Random Tea Room. 7-10 PM. >>>Plant Life Music presents: A night dedicated to Factory [...]

RECOMMENDED: The whole movie is given away in the trailer, but who cares: Go see Crazy Stupid Love, because it stars two of the most beautiful gingers in the world (Julianne Moore/Emma Stone) and Bradley Cooper isn’t in it. And because it’s a heat wave and your brain is too melty to process Sarah’s Key, [...]

It’s a great location: 10th and Bainbridge, across from the park, and just around the corner from Whole Foods. It’s a 1,900 square feet/2BR loft, and yes, it’s truly impressive. At $699,000, it’s pricey, even though it was just reduced by $26K. But if you happen to be a very specific lover of both film [...]

Fox 29 Reporter Attacked During Live Report: MyFoxPHILLY.com God, why couldn’t this have happened to Steve Keeley.

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God, it’s just been the weirdest summer ever for us. [Photo credit: PhillySkyline]

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>>>Spank Rock will be swinging through the Barbary tonight as a bit of a pre-tour warm up show. There is NO COVER and performance starts at 11:00PM. They will be touring around their soon to be released new album which comes out September 27. The album also has the best title we’ve heard in a [...]

A CityPaper cover story about Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Tea Party supported wingnut from Butler County (out by Pittsburgh), describes him as a “gun-toting, gay-bashing, tea-partying state rep who’s taking over Harrisburg.” Metcalfe has received public monies to attend conferences of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and according to a piece on Salon.com, “a [...]

With the increase in Center City population and rising gas prices, this should be no surprise: for the fiscal year ending June 30th, SEPTA had about 334 million passengers, its most since 1989. According to an Inquirer report, the passenger numbers are up 4 percent overall from last year, with Regional Rail coming close to [...]

That Casey Anthony mask we told you about sold for just shy of $1 million.

So it turns out the woman who ran those Ackerman “rallys” earlier this week, is a school district police officer out on disability. She is now being investigated since she seemed to be “up and about” during the rallys, according to The Daily News. Pamela Williams, who was attacked by a Daroff Elemetary School student, [...]

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If you havin’ second term problems, I feel bad for you, son. Instead, he’s going to “coach” Karen Brown. Yes, that Karen Brown. Welcome to Philly, where strange bedfellows are kind of the only bedfellows there are. Previously: #streetflight Becomes A Distinct Reality (Or, At The Very Least, A Twitter Hashtag)

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Yes, it’s a year old, and yes, it’s the theme from Portlandia, but it can’t stop, won’t stop. Philly’s own Lushlife, by the way, is hard at work on new material. Keep your ears peeled.

Right about now, if you hear a little ruckus in the area of 11th & Arch at noon, it’s the Cheri Honkala for Sheriff Campaign, leading a demonstration against home foreclosures, the ending of The Emergency Homeowner Loan Program (EHLP) and the Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP). Why/whatfor? Says Honkala’s people: Bank of America [...]

>>>Sonny & The Sunsets, the jangle-indie group led by Sonny Smith seen above will be playing the North Star Bar tonight with support from The Sandwitches and Summer Fiction. >>>The last Rocktits of the summer is going down at The P.O.P.E. tonight with DJs Steve Vena, Joe Kust, Joel Flood, and Russell Alexander spinning the [...]

Fox 29 Reporter Talks About On-Air Attack: MyFoxPHILLY.com Yesterday, police arrested a man who claimed to be CIA because he was sitting on his front stoop naked. When they returned to the house later, they found tons of living and dead animals in what the PSPCA is calling a case of animal hoarding. According to [...]

When you’re a professional baseball player of Ryan Howard‘s caliber, you can do certain things that most people cannot. One of those things is hitting massive home runs. Another is spending tons of money on ridiculous things. Howard’s future off-season/spring training home in Florida will have some of the latter. According to the 700 level, [...]