>>>The Meat Puppets are touring behind their 13th studio album, this year’s Lollipop, and are playing Johnny Brenda’s tonight with support from Dex Romweber Duo. >>>Arc in Round drummer Matthew Ricchini brings his solo project, Catholic Workers, to Kungfu Necktie tonight with Hot Guts and The Bad Doctors. >>>And as we told you earlier, Drexel [...]

No. So this is what’s happening: Supposedly, Finnegan’s Wake, a place with “a good place to get some tail” as its biggest compliment on Yelp, is about to expand and add a 3-story outdoor deck. A bill is currently before City Council to strike Bodine St. between Spring Garden & Green for this purpose; the [...]

>>>Oakland continues its bid to be the Occupy movement with the most violence and insanity. Last night, after a peaceful day of general strike, Police once again fired flash bang grenades and tear gas after protesters started a bonfire in the middle of a city street. >>>The Metro reported on the arrests we mentioned yesterday, [...]

Well, this should be pretty cool. This coming Monday, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will announce, “the launch of an eight-month-long mural project to honor The Roots.” We already loved the Mural Arts Program as it was, but this just makes us like it even more. There are tons of murals around the [...]

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Urbanized, a documentary by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) is screening tonight at 6:30PM and 9PM at Drexel’s Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center (3140 Market Street). The screenings are the Philadelphia premiere of the film about the design of cities, “which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design.” The 6:30PM screening is nearly sold-out, [...]

It seems before he decided he had to seek ultimate revenge on Jose Canseco, Lenny Dykstra was locked into an autograph signing at the Oxford Valley Mall on Saturday. But fear not fans, although Geoff Jenkins also backed out (which is unfortunate, because we were really hoping for Geoff Jenkins’ autograph) Mitch Williams, Tom McCarthy, [...]

It’s been brewing for some time, but it’s finally been announced: according to The Inquirer, “Philadelphia School District officials on Wednesday recommended closing nine schools and making grade changes at 17 others.” However, the School Reform Commission believes more may have to be done. The SRC will vote on the closings early next year, but [...]

Or… maybe not. But there is an element out there that is mobilizing at City Hall today to protest Darrell Clarke’s raccoon-killing legislation which, at moment, looks like it’s set to pass easily and soon. Whether or not the visiting raccoons will then join up (and perhaps find love) with the #occupyphilly protestors, however, is [...]

To our readers in Upper Darby, we’d like to wish a very happy “Please Don’t Get Angry Day!” Mmm, now that’s what I call Chitwood!

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>>>We still live in a time when people are shocked that a woman is a really good guitarist, but St. Vincent‘s Annie Clark is doing her best to shed the female qualifier. She brings music from this year’s cinematic Strange Mercy, along with support from Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon to Union Transfer tonight. >>>Eric [...]

Keep a lookout for this unfriendly cat in northern liberties (seen at American and Poplar): Additional note: Cat may have also been last seen, in a happier time, on the cover of the first Beat Happening album. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Was anyone there? Who has pictures/video/stories about this? It seems like it was bound to happen, with the blocking of the sidewalk, building entrance, etc., and this now marks occupy’s second group of arrests.

It’s so white hot we cannot even possess it. Yet.

This just in: As part of a national “general strike” series of activities today, members of #occupyphilly are presently staging — or attempting to stage — a sit-in in the lobby of the Comcast Center, protesting corporate personhood. As you can see in the reader-submitted photo above, though, it seems as though police and and [...]

We’ve remarked on the strange electorial prospect of likely 1st District City Council shoe-in Mark Squilla before. For whether Squilla turns out to be a good Councilman or not (though likely not, because everything about this guy screams “propped up by Dem Machine”), his installation — and don’t get it twisted, it’s an installation, not [...]

Damn you Damon Feldman. Every time we think you’ve gone away forever, something like this happens. This coming Saturday at the Avalon in Hollywood, CA, there will be a celebrity boxing card which was Lenny Dykstra vs. Jose Canseco as its main event. The (likely totally untrue and fabricated) story goes that Canseco was supposed [...]

Right as the Philadelphia Film Festival is winding down, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival is starting off. The festival begins tonight with a free launch party and b-boy demonstration at the Asian Arts Initiative, (1219 Vine Street) followed by a screening of the documentary Among B-Boys about “a movement in the Hmong American youth [...]

TMZ has these pictures of rapper T.I. dressed as Michael Vick at an Atlanta Halloween party this past weekend, because if there’s any way to remind people you spent some time in prison, it is dressing up like someone who also spent some time in prison. And on a side note, that’s not even an [...]