Oh, JoePa.

City Councilman Darrell Clarke (pictured) has had a full plate for a while now, introducing bullshit legislation against, er, raccoons, small business, the spirit of anyone so bold as to take his parking space, DIY arts spaces in otherwise blighted areas and making his neighbors wonder aloud if in fact he even lives in his [...]

We’ll have Jim Adair’s daily Occupy roundup later today, but here’s what you need to know for now: They lifted a couple of rocks at Dilworth Plaza and found both actual human feces and a handful of anarchists fucking up the whole thing but, oddly, no eviction notice from the City. Not just yet, anyway. [...]

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It’s A Trap by Power Animal >>> People Songs, the album released in May by Philly boy Keith Hampson‘s one-man bedroom outfit turned giant ensemble Power Animal, should definitely be on a short list of most ambitious albums by a local act this year. (The label it was released on, Human Kindness Overflowing, is no [...]

One thing’s for sure: Someone’s gonna have to eat it. After years of a culture of warring newsrooms that once seemed quaint and maybe a little silly but now — like so much at Philadelphia Media Network and the corporate entities that preceded it — seems completely pathetic, staffers at both the Daily News and [...]

The day after Mayor Bloomberg in New York City took his first big step towards moving/shutting down/breaking apart Occupy Wall Street, there is worry that the same will occur here in Philadelphia. The tensions between Occupy Philly and the city have been building over the last few days, so it isn’t exactly a stretch to [...]

Recorded live in Omaha while the Philly band was on tour. Why Arrah & The Ferns aren’t one of the most popular bands in the city completely mystifies us. Previously: Stuck On Repeat: Arrah & The Ferns, “Slim 5″

As if the murder of Shane Kelly over the weekend in Fishtown was not enough, today comes news of a guy being shot in the neck overnight during a robbery in NoLibs, and another guy having the living shit beat out of him on Frankford by (we presume) Fishtown Street Urchins. To Philly’s apparently quite [...]

It was inevitable, and it’s still awful, but it’s happening: The PSU scandal has reached such magnitude that it has all but enveloped the current media cycle so that no matter what the beat is, you’ll find someone squeezing their hustle into or a column out of the entire mess. This goes for sports authors [...]

Last night, on Brian Williams‘ new show “Rock Center With Brian Williams,” Bob Costas conducted a phone interview with Jerry Sandusky. In his first real public statement since the accusations against him became public, Sandusky denied being a pedophile, but admitted to showering with children. Costas didn’t go easy on Sandusky at all, asking him [...]

Yesterday, at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Mount Airy, mourners paid their last respects to the legendary Joe Frazier. According to The New York Times, Muhammed Ali, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, and Larry Holmes were all in town to say goodbye to Frazier, and Mike Tyson sent along a video tribute. According to the Times, [...]

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>>>Indo-Canadian King Khan has teamed up with Indo-Canadian Bloodshot Bill to form The Tandoori Knights, an Indian-themed garage rock/rockabilly band that will be playing Johnny Brenda’s tonight. King Khan has a reputation for wild live shows, so this will probably be no different. >>>Tigerbeats turns two years old at The Barbary tonight, officially making it [...]

Judge us however you’d like, but we loved Oasis. There was a time when they really did mean something to us. Of course, you’d have to be deaf if you didn’t loathe the bloated mess they morphed into after those first three albums (and even that third one doesn’t really deserve to be in there), [...]

As a surging interest in Fishtown real estate has brought hundreds if not thousands of new residents to the neighborhood in the last decade, native/gentrifier relations are still — and this is predictable for Philly in general — pretty much block-to-block. Some folks on either side of the equation have horror stories and real acrimony; [...]

Oh God: This is going to make lunchtime so, so awkward for us. Previously: Inky’s Shitty Relocation Karma Bestows Upon Us The Question: Which Is Better, South Jersey Or The Gallery Mall?

The Big Ten Championship, which was set to hand out the first Stagg-Paterno trophy to the Big Ten football champion on December 3rd, will now only hand out the Stagg trophy. According to NBC10, the Big Ten has removed Joe Paterno‘s name from the football championship trophy it had named after him and Amos Alonzo [...]

The old Boot & Saddle (1131 S Broad Street) has been sitting empty for a while now, and a group of people would like to see that changed. David Goldfarb, who you may remember as the happy fella in this video, has begun a petition to have a liquor license transferred to the Boot & [...]

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