>>>Tonight is The Mambo Syndicate, Wednesday night’s weekly mambo night (with truly awesome music) at Milkboy. And also, if you show up a bit early, you can get some dance pointers and show off your brand new moves on the floor. >>> The War On Drugs are playing on Letterman. We love everything about this. [...]

OK, first things first: The Streets Dept. is about to go around confiscating bikes of blight. You know, those derelict bicycles that have been chained up forever to that one pole on your block that you’ve always thought about snagging for parts or rehab: The Philadelphia Streets Department will be conducting a clean sweep of [...]

For longer than we have been a website, we have loved the brilliant mind of the one they call Jayson Scott Musson. Over the years, we’ve enjoyed Jayson’s work as a rapper with Plastic Little; his agit-prop sticker campaigns and such under the Pack Of Rats moniker; and most recently, we’ve joined in on a [...]

So the story goes like this: The Dead Milkmen were once invited to be guests on Club MTV. Everything was going swell until they decided to repay Downtown Julie Brown‘s hospitality by handcuffing her to her own podium, or a mic stand, or a band member. The incident was recently discussed by Julie Brown herself [...]

>>>Community activists are meeting with SEPTA officials about buses shortening the name of Cecil B. Moore Avenue to CB Moore. Activists claim it diminishes Moore’s legacy, while SEPTA says they’re just trying to make signs more readable. [The Inquirer] >>>Here’s some video of that protest to the Islamic Apartheid Conference at Temple we mentioned. And [...]

The Green City, Clean Waters plan is a 25-year strategy to, “protect and enhance our watersheds by managing stormwater with innovative green infrastructure.” The plan has been approved by the EPA, and according to the Weekly Press, the proposal will, “revitalize our rivers and streams by managing stormwater in a way that provides multiple benefits. [...]

Some stories are difficult to tell, particularly the ones that need to be pieced back together. Journey with Andrew, last night’s First Person Arts StorySlam winner, as he digs through memories to reconstruct the story of his mother. The theme was “Your Mom.” (And if you can, give your mom a call today.) First Person [...]

You know, the Flyers/Penguins series in round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs was one of the most consistently exciting series we’ve ever seen. So we were ready to give hockey a real chance, and then something like this has to happen: Scott Hartnell, Max Talbot, Claude Giroux, and Matt Carle joined Nickelback on stage [...]

They’re officially called Pennsylvania State Historical Markers, and you know the signs. You walk by them all the time and only notice them on about the 20th passing. They’re actually all over the place (Philadelphia’s got about 250 of them) and their number is about to grow ever so slightly. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum [...]

Last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, filmed at a theater on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, was probably the most liberal arts college-y talk show of all time. The two guests? POTUS Barack Obama, and Dave Matthews. And while the latter was just as awful as always, the prez came out before his interview [...]

Yesterday was the end of a long, weird campaign, for both Brian Sims and Babette Josephs. And at the end of that day, they ended up being separated by only about 3 percentage points, and a few hundred votes. But in the end, Sims won out, putting a cap on a series of seemingly desperate [...]