>>> Some quick updates on last week’s total shitshow regarding the sale of Philly Media Network‘s assets: Dave Davies has weighed in on the matter with very real questions and insights along with (maybe this is us projecting) a heavy sigh of relief that he isn’t involved in this bullshit anymore. [Newsworks] >>> Meanwhile, somewhere [...]

Two great tastes that taste great together: Philly’s own Steve Volk (kickass journo of note and author of Fringeology) was on Radiolab, one of the very best radio programs in the country, last week. Enjoy.

Only last week, we were told we would soon see, “a detailed analysis … that examines the possible sale of PGW to a private entity.” Today, a 48-page study by Lazard (a financial advisor hired by the city) was laid out by Mayor Nutter, who recommended the city, “pursue a process to transfer ownership and [...]

In honor of the life of legendary Soul Train host Don Cornelius, hundreds of people will try to break the Guinness World Record for longest soul train on the Art Museum steps today. The current record sits at a measly 211 people, though 500 are expected to show up at the PMA at 4PM today. [...]

A source inside the Comcast Sex Toy informs us that Kabletown® employees are “on lockdown here @ the comcast center because we are supposed to get occupied now.” It sounds like a rather extreme reaction, as screwing with Comcast a little bit only really merits a line item on OccupyPhilly’s daily notes: #occupybigmedia action with [...]

With this weekend’s unfortunate passing of the golden-voiced Whitney Houston, let us take some time to remember her in her prime. The full concert audio above is from The Bodyguard Tour, when Houston was arguably at the height of her popularity and ability. Houston passed away this weekend at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly [...]

Regarding today’s earlier post about the Murray book, one concerned reader writes in: Hi Philebs, I know you’ve got to mention the book by Murray, what with his cute use of Fishtown to portray white working class society as in shambles. I get it–that’s home base. But to do so without highlighting, fifteen to twenty [...]

We told you guys about this a long time ago, but it’s worth mentioning again. Philadelphia Neighborhoods talked to local artist Kevin Colden about his comic Fishtown, for which, “Colden won the Xeric Award for his comic, but turned down the grant money, because it would not have enabled him to release the story online [...]

For most of us inconsolably stuck on the Center-City-and-satellite-’hoods grid, Germantown represents a bucolic fantasy of the type of place where we might settle down once we burn off all of this smoking and drinking and screwing and, for want of a better term, Loco Pez. It’s the place we’ll go when all of our [...]

Our winter reading list — which is already two full nightstands-stacked — just got a little bit longer. For a little while, we’ve been hearing tell of a book called Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray, which uses none other than Fishtown as a composite for, well, explaining that white [...]

After months and months of you, us and everyone we know harping on the 76ers to bring back Big Shot, it looks like, somehow, just yesterday, Sixers CEO Adam Aron finally got the memo. If it’s tweets he wants, then by gum, it is tweets he shall get. This is the hour, Big Shot fans! [...]