In something straight out of a Guy Ritchie movie, 6 ABC is reporting that a man was robbed at gunpoint in Northern Liberties of a briefcase containing $30,000 in cash. Haven’t the movies taught us that briefcases with that much money should be handcuffed to the carrier?

The joys of being Milton Street’s Facebook friend. Um.

The National, who have put out three consecutive great albums, are playing two nights at the Academy of Music this week, and we want to give you tickets. Oh, and Yo La Tengo and Wye Oak are opening, in case you weren’t already excited. To enter to win tickets, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “Terrible Love” and [...]

Over the holiday weekend, The Daily News ran a cover story about the whole cops vs. cameras thing we covered a little while ago. The kid who sent us that letter a while back was featured in a sidebar which we can’t find online, but the whole story is worth a read anyway.

Philly Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE), whose (perfect) slogan is “Keeping Transit Officials Out Of Your Pants” will be descending upon the SEPTA offices at 1234 Market Street at 11:15 AM on Thursday. As part of Operation Ride with Respect, RAGE and supporters will “enter the SEPTA offices with a large replica of a city [...]

Hollis P. Monroe – I Wept For You feat. Ed Robinson from de'fchild productions on Vimeo. For much longer than you’ve been living here (probably), Hollis P. Monroe has been quietly churning out house tracks that land in clubs all over the world. The one above — video laden with much public domain goodness, natch [...]

Starting on Apirl 1st of this year, Dave Kim made it his mission to be your Best Friend Facebook Forever. The month-long social experiment had Dave attending every event he could (in 30 days he attended 84), making people’s birthday wishes come true, and friending over 700 people. And as far as social experiments go, [...]

On Friday, when both Howard Eskin retired and WYSP flipped to WIP, Howard Stern rang up Spike Eskin (even more shades of strange) for a chat, which you can listen to here. The chat is notable for a bunch of reasons. Pick one: The death knell of rock radio, Spike Eskin’s tentative plans for what [...]

Bookspace, the charmingly gritty DIY venue we told you about back in May, seems to have been knocked out of the events game (for the time being at least), presumably by L&I. We first started hearing this as we were closing up shop on Friday, and attendant event cancellations seem to confirm that. So was [...]

In a move that would surely merit any publicist a round of applause, Philly’s own mystical Americana space rock band of record, The War On Drugs, will be doing a live chat today at 3pm on ESPN.com’s SportsNation. This, like most sports chats, will be in advance of a European tour set to start Friday [...]

The list of nominees and recipients for the 2011 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre were posted this morning; you can get a peek at them here. From this perch, it looks like a helluva lotta Arden/Walnut/Wilma; the awards will be handed out on October 3rd at the Walnut Street Theatre.

Though there was no info about it on the streets yesterday or, as best we can tell, on the PPA website, meters were indeed free yesterday. Or maybe they weren’t. The quotation marks around that “Yes” could also be read as sarcasm.

FRIDAY: >>>Get all your post-punk/post-hardcore needs (whatever that means) at The First Unitarian Church with Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, Balance And Composure, and Make Do And Mend. >>>Pittsburgh’s Wise Blood is bringing his brand of mash-up/remix/dance/pop/ambient/etc. music to Johnny Brenda’s with support from Supreme Cuts and Philadelphia’s Hott Tubb. SATURDAY: >>>In what is probably the [...]

If you’re like us (and we know you are) you’re tired of high temps in the 90s and this constant rain we’ve been getting. We’ve been clawing our way towards the beginning of fall for what feels like forever, but there are some signs that it is finally coming. The Clark Park Fall Equinox Festival [...]

This Sunday, a bunch of Philadelphians (to say nothing of a handful of suburban thrill-seekers, we presume) will gather for this year’s edition of the Philly Naked Bike Ride, which is what it sounds like — a nudity-encouraged bicycle ride through Center City. The following Sunday, what we hope will be even more Philadelphians will [...]

Ever since being removed from her superintendent position, Arlene Ackerman has been defending herself everywhere she can, and that may cause her to lose her buyout. According to the Inquirer, “The Philadelphia School District’s legal office is reviewing critical public comments that former Superintendent Arlene C. Ackerman made last week about a top district administrator [...]

Can you even imagine? We can’t. It’s the kind of thing that feels so exhausting to even think about that it sort of makes you want to give up on “beliefs” altogether. So let us offer a possibly premature but still warranted kudos, then, to those among us who are planning to protest the various [...]

Philly Alternative Comic-Con 2011! from Fractal Circus on Vimeo. A few weeks ago, we advised you to check out the Philadelphia Alternative Comic Convention. Well, you probably didn’t. Shame on you. But now, thanks to Fractal Circus, you can see some of what you missed. Problem solved, you are forgiven.

Have you always wanted to be a Major League athlete? Is Kronum not really your style? Do you enjoy bocce, the sport of the leisurely, beach-bound competitor? Well today is your lucky day. According to our friends over at the 700 level, Major League Bocce is coming to Philadelphia. Matches will be held Saturdays in [...]

Charles Chaput will be the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia starting Sept. 8th, but he has already ruffled a few feathers in his future home. We told you before about some of his opinions on gay rights activists and John Kerry before, but in an interview with CBS 3′s Pat Ciarrocci, last week, [...]