Joke Summer School Promo from All Ages on Vimeo. From the mind(s) that brought you “Let’s Eat” and “Shadow Magic” comes “Joke Summer School,” a new Philly-produced sketch comedy/joke show for kids on Activity TV on Xfinity OnDemand helmed by Ted Passon. We love what Ted and friends are doing to warp young Americans’ minds. [...]

And we’d like to the think that’s not the only thing we have in common with Jay-Z. (Shh. Just let us believe.)

Richard Swift “Whitman” by DOJAGSC You guys ever get into this Richard Swift guy? He’s kind of a genius. And on his forthcoming EP, Walt Wolfman, Swift pays homage to that pride of Camden, NJ/great American freak Walt Whitman. “Whitman,” which you can hear above and right-click here to download, is “a cryptic salute to [...]

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Day 24: Freeway Freestyle from Aman & Bassam on Vimeo. Aww, yeah! Happy Ramadan to you, too, Freeway! [via TheAwl]

In a way, longtime gay rights activist Cleve Jones — yep, that Cleve Jones — just kind of gave Prohibition, Resorts Atlantic City‘s gay nightclub, the most press they will ever get. The club — which touts itself as the the first LGBT venue in an Atlantic City casino ever (we’re sure the gays were [...]

Seriously, when is the last time you watched Hardbodies? Yes, it might have been titillating back in the mid-1980s when adolescent you saw it on the sly some way, somehow, but the precious gift of time has rendered the film absolutely, tantalizingly absurd. It’s creepy in so many ways it winds up being kind of [...]

The Nutter and Ramsey Insane Flash Mob Hurricane Panic Dog And Pony Show Posse gave itself a break today to do something that hasn’t happened in a while: Release some truly good news that actually reflects well on the work that both have been doing. Here’s the meat of the 2011 progress report and five-year [...]

Do you still care, or do you think that like, say, the comedy of David Cross, this show about supposed Philadelphians shouting at each other has grown coarse and unfunny and that their Bennigan’s-like bar in Old City is kind of a cosmic bummer? No matter, because that’s a debate for another time! What you [...]

We were as surprised as the next man when WXPN invited Ed And Joe From Philadelphia to DJ on the REAL FM RADIO at 88.5 FM on your dial this Saturday afternoon. But we checked, and yep, this is happening. As we do each Thursday from 3-5PM on XPN2, we’ll be playing records, shootin’ the [...]

>>> Scroll down for heartfelt endorsements of two shows happening tonight: Dong Johnson at The Barbary and Meg Baird/Thurston Moore at the First Unitarian Sanctuary. >>> And, as always: Philebrity Salon @ 700 with DJ Kyle Andrews spinning deep jazz cuts (this is, to our knowledge, the only weekly jazz records night in all of [...]

It’s like you can FEEL THE BROWN.

OK, OK, there’s a story behind it, of course, but when asked by Concierge magazine (we subscribe), “What is the most creative, spiritual or emotional place in Philadelphia?,” The Cos replied, “The outside wall of Girard College.” We get it, but even so, it really is a window into the mindset of The Cos these [...]

Every once in a while, we’ll see something like this and wonder why this entire neighborhood hasn’t been annexed to Conshohocken yet.

Happy Birthday by Dong Johnson “Yeah! It’s AGGRESSIVE ROCK MUSIC, man!,” is what Dong Johnson bassist Tracy Stanton said to us when we called to inquire the other day about this new Philly band, which obviously seeks to echo back to the earliest days of Black Flag and, er… put a dong on it. Surprisingly, [...]

Over the wire late last night: “The President today declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and ordered federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Irene beginning on August 26, 2011, and continuing.” Just FYI.

As you may know, MLB routinely scrapes youtube to deprive Philadelphia and the rest of the world of baseball joy. If you didn’t know that, go to youtube and do a search for Mike Schmidt and see what comes up. Basically nothing. BUT — apparently some dude has uploaded a 50 minute long movie (apparently [...]

Now that Arlene Ackerman has been given her (very very green) walking papers, it seems like errrrrbudddy snitchin‘: City Paper has uncovered the hows and wherefores of Ackerman’s media black ops, designed to counter any and all negative media attention on Ackerman, and claims it’s still going, sort of. In the report, CP’s Daniel Denvir [...]

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum), the new film from influential (and Norristown-born) stop-motion animators the Brothers Quay, has been set for September 22nd at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. It’s an unlikely but fitting locale for the premiere — for the short [...]

From Meg, to the rest of us dawgs. Dear Babies, This is a message from the immediate future. On and off over the last few weeks, I’ve been living in the fall already: Looking forward, planning events (look for the fall/winter dance card soon), making some changes here in the office (more on that soon, [...]