>>>We’re in the midst of the multi-day Northern Liberties Music Festival at The Fire, featuring performances tonight from River City Extension, Former Belle (above), The Great Unknown, and more. >>>And other than that? It’s kinda gross outside, but we hope you got your Phillies tickets this morning and can picture the beautiful days of spring [...]

The recent PEW Charitable Trust’s opinion poll of 1600 Philly residents told us something we already knew. In the love-hate relationship that is our hometown loyalty, we contradict ourselves. Answers to the following two survey questions reflect this defensive impulse: Q. DO YOU THINK THINGS IN PHILADELPHIA ARE GENERALLY HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, OR [...]

Really, truly, we ask you from the bottom of our hearts: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR US.

We’re sure you’ve seen this meme everywhere by now (mostly on the Facebook pages of, you guessed it, young white people). The What People Think I Do/What I Really Do thing has really taken off lately, so we present above the Living in Philadelphia version someone sent our way. We’re mostly on board with this, [...]

In what was originally reported as a nearly impossible outcome, four (now 18, see below) local Catholic schools that were scheduled for closing have won their appeals to stay open. The full results aren’t supposed to come out until tomorrow, but Newsworks is reporting, that Holy Trinity in Morrisville, St. Ephrem in Bensalem, St. Francis [...]

The Scud Mountain Boys, four guys who bonded over playing music around the kitchen table so much that they brought the table on tour, stopped playing together in 1997. However, the full original lineup (Joe Pernice, Stephen Desaulniers, Bruce Tull, and Tom Shea) is now back on tour, playing the great alt-country that made people [...]

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This clip from the new Philly other-music group F! has been sticking with us for days now, both out of sheer, lovely weirdness and its hi-fi/lo-fi production values, so we thought we’d share. Above, the group plays compositions from Pig Iron’s 2011 production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the 2nd annual Waitangi Day Festival at [...]

Spotted in the window of Smith’s on 19th Street: I guess we don’t have to ask whether or not Chris Brown is on the jukebox. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

On the one hand, it was nice to see that the NW Philly office of the campaign to re-elect Barack Obama opened yesterday. Nice because, you know, any time neighbors get together to do things is… well, nice. It just is. And it’s also nice to see that Team Obama is getting the band back [...]

>>> If you have any interest at all in the kerfuffle that we’ve been covering lately over at the Inky/DN, this NYT piece on what must be, what has to be The Last Days Of Osberg is a must-read. Kudos to Inky staff marquee names for putting this douchelord on blast, but jeez, just in [...]