>>>Cymbals Eat Guitars, who received tons of blog-hype for their debut album in 2009, are playing the First Unitarian Church with Horray For Earth and Beige. >>>Friendly Fires are taking their brand of indie-pop to Union Transfer with support from fashionable fella Theophilus London and Chad Valley. And tonight’s film fest picks: >>>Miss Bala, 7:35PM [...]

So, as discussed here last week, we’re reading Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot, and we’d love for you to join us. In the comments after this post, feel free to discuss the book’s first section, “A Madman In Love,” which introduces us to the book’s key players on the morning of graduation at Brown University, [...]

>>>We told you last week about Bill Clinton’s guest speaking spot at Temple on Saturday, and you’ll never guess … Occupy Philly is going to march there and protest it (Did you guess that? You probably guessed that). The Facebook event for the march says they are protesting, “for those who have lost a their [...]

Former Sixers owner and current pirate lover Pat Croce recently discovered Sir Frances Drake‘s final fleet. Drake, who Croce says is his “favorite pirate” (and who doesn’t have a favorite pirate), is also believed to be buried near where the ships were found. According to The Telegraph, Croce’s team found two ships (Elizabeth and Delight) [...]

Tom Waits Bad As Me ANTI- After an artist has 40 years of musical output, it can be pretty difficult to predict what their next project will sound like. Springsteen fans know they can expect the same songs played live, but when it comes to albums, it’s all guesswork, and Leonard Cohen fans will know [...]

Attn. all those who sail in the progeny of Anton Newcombe: There is a gathering of your tribe this Thursday, as The Black Angels, Dead Meadow and Spindrift sail into Philadelphia on a wave of bad vibrations and play Union Transfer. And we’ve got some tickets for you! To enter to win, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with [...]

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Back before there was SEPTA, Philadelphians used The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and Philadelphia Transportation Co. to get around, and tons of documents from this era are about to be perused by historians. According to PlanPhilly, there are, “almost 200 feet of documents ― covering 624 volumes and 38 large charts and maps.” But before [...]

There are many Americans who live day-to-day hoping they won’t get sick or injured because they do not have health insurance. But according to PhillyDeals, insurance is now being offered for your four-legged friends. Capital Blue Cross is now offering pet insurance from Petplan, a Philadelphia-based company founded by two Wharton School grads. The husband [...]

No, really: UPENN and DREXEL Compete: “Who Has The Munchies?” To celebrate the release of the new movie A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS, Warner Bros. Pictures is challenging UPENN and Drexel students to square off in a very “spirited” competition via Twitter and Facebook! Which campus has a bigger case of the munchies?? [...]

If you pay attention to the comings and goings of Philadelphia City Council, you already know that Councilman Darrell Clarke likes to kill off a variety of things: small business, the spirit of anyone so bold as to take his parking space, DIY arts spaces in otherwise blighted areas, and so on. He’s a regular [...]

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Aw buddies. Amaro adds that just because they didn’t pick up the option doesn’t mean they wouldn’t still work with the closer or the starter (presumably if the price was right and either Lidge or Oswalt didn’t pick up a better deal elsewhere). This is basically like breaking up with someone because you know it’s [...]

>>> Midwestern chillwavers Gauntlet Hair (that’s their new single above) check in with Ladies Auxiliary and Music for Headphones at Kung Fu Necktie, starting early at 7PM. (And by the way, good luck to home team players Ladies Auxiliary on their upcoming tour!) AND AT THE PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL: Ex-Hal Hartley regular Martin Donovan directs [...]

This is potentially great news: Bruce Robinson has directed Johnny Depp in a film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson‘s beloved ode to the Caribbean and drinking, The Rum Diary. It’s out this Friday, but we’ve got 30 pairs of passes to see it this Wednesday evening in Center City. You in? First 30 callers get’em. [...]

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia 2011 Contest Opens from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. The last week for you to apply for the Knight Arts Challenge is upon us. You can still apply using the two-question application over here until October 31. A full last of last year’s winners can be found here. In addition, there will [...]

Well, it’s a little more nuanced than that, but that’s the basic gist of it. In case you missed this multifaceted-ly interesting piece by Tara Murtha in last week’s Philadelphia Weekly — we nearly missed it altogether, having hit “ignore” on their written-by-one-staffer-and-some-interns-in-an-hour “best of” issue — do take a look. The piece concerns the [...]

According to an article in The Notebook, the Penn-Alexander School may have to redraw its border lines to combat over-crowding. The information came from the Philadelphia School District’s facilities closings list, which planned to, “close Alexander Wilson Elementary, move the students to Lea Elementary, and, to relieve overcrowding, consider redrawing the boundary for the University [...]