Archive for January 31st, 2012 Tuesday, January 31st, 2012And yet, the fuzz just busted what is said to be “a million-dollar LSD ring that was operating on [Drexel] University’s campus.” After we make the joke that apparently not one red dime of that million was spent on, well, anything you can buy at CVS, let’s get to the real talk: A million dollars [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Either do the above, or go see one of our very favorite new (Black Flag-inspired, punk as fuck) bands in the city, the inimitable Dong Johnson. Tuesday, January 31st, 2012David L. Cohen, Comcast’s Executive Vice President, spoke today about the controversial “Internet Essentials” program. After complaints and protests where people demanded to see statistics, Cohen laid out nearly every statistic he could think of, the most important being: “[Internet Essentials] connected over 41,000 families (an estimated 160,000 Americans) to the power of the Internet [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Tomorrow night at 16th and Jackson Streets, the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia will reveal the first piece in their new “Safe Streets For Healthy Neighborhoods” initiative. Together with a team of urban planners, BCP is out to “suggest infrastructure changes to make South Philly streets safer and more appealing to pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transit [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Dear Philebrity, You’re the only person I could to with this question, because I’m just so out of touch that I can’t even understand this: I’m in Rittenhouse Square right now, sitting across from a bunch of kids on fixies, and I swear to God, one of them has a Sean Agnew t-shirt on. Do [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012This week at Penn, one of the world’s oldest issues is coming to the forefront. According to The Metro, “PennBDS, an official university student group, is hosting the 2012 National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions event against the State of Israel Conference this weekend.” In response, the Philadelphia Jewish Federation is sponsoring “We Are One with [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012You would have said, “What?” But today, we say, “No, really!” Be The Void comes out next Tuesday. Tuesday, January 31st, 2012New album from the Philly expat dropping any second now. Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Here is some super-spy footage of the Point Breeze zoning meeting we mentioned yesterday. The video above shows some of the end of the meeting, when (in the last minute and a half of the video) a woman gets up to make her point about the proposed development and construction. Her issue? The boys in [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012In a year where the Sixers are experiencing a bit of a resurgence, things aren’t looking great for one-time face of the franchise Allen Iverson. Iverson has in recent years fallen on Lenny Dykstra-esque hard times: he returned to the Sixers, then left for Turkey, then had some problems with the law, and now, he’s [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012First, Milton was running for the PA House of “Represtatives” in the 195th District. However, due to a discarded redistricting plan, Street announced he will now be running in the 197th District, according to Newsworks. In the 197th, Street would face off against Jewel Williams, daughter of Jewell Williams (yes, we noticed, but one thing [...] Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Real Age claims to figure out what your “real age” is based off of health, diet, exercise, and background information. We took their test and we did not like the results we saw. But that is beside the point. Real Age compiled a list of the 25 Best Cities for Staying Young (aka where Americans [...] | | |