Archive for September, 2011

Average PGW Gas Bill To Drop 2%

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

The Philadelphia Gas Works has a little bit of good news for it’s subscribers today. According to Philadelphia Business Journal, “The city-owned utility said residential heating customers will pay $1.52 per hundred cubic feet for gas this quarter, down from $1.56 per hundred cubic feet last quarter. PGW said the change will lower the monthly [...]

PHILEBRITY RADIO IS ON THE AIR AT 3PM! (AND THIS SATURDAY AT 2PM!)

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Or click here to listen with iTunes. Got an HD radio? Tune in to 88.5-2 FM HD! ON THE BIG SHOW TODAY: SUMMER SUPERLATIVES AND SHOUT OUTS! PS. Tune into us on the REAL RADIO this Saturday while you’re BBQ-ing!

This Store Owner Fighting Back Against Armed Robbers Is Our Hero

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com. But seriously, admitting you’d never do it again? You’re just setting yourself up for disaster.

Now It Can Be Told: We’ve Been Having A Secret Pool Party Every Friday Night This Summer, And This Week, You’re Invited

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

You may have heard about this: All summer long, we’ve been throwing a total vibe hang called UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT at the highly controversial Arrow Swim Club. (One day in the future, we will tell you how this came to pass, but trust us: It was amazing.) Doing this party has been fun, funny and sublime [...]

Chief Ramsey’s Five-Year Plan Involves Stopping Crime, Does Not Involve Cops Getting Arrested

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey laid out his 52-page, five-year plan today, on the heels of multiple arrests of Philadelphia Police Officers. According to the Daily News, the plan includes “divvying up the department’s 22 districts into 64 “police service areas,” which enables officers to more closely focus on the needs of the geographical area to [...]

Noontime Nuggetz: Mike Quinn, “Big Shit”

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Every couple of years or so, a guy comes along affecting a modern-day Guthrie/Dylan/street urchin pose, promising a window onto the road less taken. These guys are usually hella annoying, but today, Scranton native/Philly expat Mike Quinn is that guy, and he’s not pissing us off at all. See if you can see your street [...]

Re: Santorum, Morgan, Mental Disability, Etc.

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Another county heard from.

Newly Uncovered Teen Mob Video Reveals: This Shit Is Boring, They Just Stole Some Twinkies, Let’s Ignore Them

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

At this point, the media, the mayor and chief of police have given these kids more power and influence than they could have ever hoped to have accrued by simply wanting to go out and fuck shit up, which is how the whole mess started. We’ve said our piece on this before — in a [...]

Readers Fwd: You Try To Do Something Nice For Someone, And This Is What Happens

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

I recently asked my girlfriend what she wanted for her birthday and she gave me a brochure for a massage place that she likes called Meridian Medica (11th/Walnut) so that I could get her a gift certificate. The brochure reads “Gift Certificates Available!” and lists the web address. Their site is awesome: Now, we have [...]

Fun With British People: Just Show Them Rick Santorum For A Minute And See What Happens

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Regular readers of this site will recognize a strong streak of Anglophilia running through our tastes in everything from music and style to oatmeal and tea. None of this can change the fact that Piers Morgan is kind of a truly awful person; it just can’t. But there is something about his level of incredulity [...]

The Fox29 Social Media Reporter’s Job Is Exactly As Dumb As It Sounds

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

At the heart of what was, as some of you believe, the local TV news broadcast that was by default the most infuriating and least informative during Hurricane Irene was an unscientific and annoying reliance on people’s tweets and Facebook statuses. We’ve been noticing it recently on Fox29 — we can’t help it, we’re hooked [...]