>>>The XPN Music Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Big Easy Express, a documentary following Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros as they tour from San Francisco to New Orleans via train. If you like fiddles, trains, and dudes with vests, this was made [...]

Whoa. Mayor Nutter announced the lineup for this year’s 4th of July Welcome America concert today and … well … it’s a bit weird. Not Goo Goo Dolls weird, but still. America’s house-band The Roots will once again be running the joint (as it should be), with appearances by Queen Latifah, Daryl Hall, Common, and [...]

Really, what could possibly be the bad side to winning stuff just for enjoying the summer sun? The 2012 I Bike PHL commuter challenge starts May 1st and carries on until August 31st (the unofficial boundaries of summer), and by participating, you can win free shit just for doing what you already do: Ride your [...]

Click the graphic above to listen, or click here to listen with iTunes. Got an HD radio? Tune in to 88.5-2 FM HD! In honor of her wildly successful PMA show having just closed on Sunday — missed it? shame on you, buy the book — we’re rebroadcasting the Zoe Strauss episode of Philebrity Radio, [...]

Stay Klassy, Philly, a new (non-gif) tumblr, is one of many now trying to explain what it feels like to live in this city of ours. But unlike others we’ve covered recently, this focuses on the “Klassy” (which is to say, not classy) side we see on a daily basis: Like the guy who drove [...]

HBO‘s newest documentary, The Weight Of The Nation, will be premiering at the Franklin Institute on Tuesday. The doc features, among others, Mayor Nutter‘s efforts to combat Philadelphia’s obesity problem by providing healthy food choices in all of our neighborhoods and schools. Before the Franklin Institute screening, a team of volunteers from HBO, Whole Kids [...]

Over the last few weeks, a storm of controversy has been brewing around The Village Voice‘s Backpage section. A story in the New York Times claimed that an underage girl was abused and pimped out, with her pimp using the Backpage service to offer her services. The Village Voice claimed the NYT article was full [...]

For those about to War On Drugs, we salute you. Proud moments indeed. I say goddamn.

Official Trailer: Girl Walk // All Day from Girl Walk // All Day on Vimeo. Ticket link here. Invite friends on Facebook here. Today, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Film Society, the first-ever XPN Music Film Festival kicks off. And over the course of four days — today through Sunday — there will be lots [...]

They say that great minds think alike. And until we heard from reader Jason Weber, we had no idea how much: I saw your posting lamenting the loss of Cash Cab. I agree it’s a great show and it’s too bad it was cancelled. But I’m actually working on bringing something like it to Philly. [...]

Say hello to the very newest thing the Internet has made in its continuing effort to make your head explode: MissTravel.com, where middle-aged wealthy male fantasy meets, oh, I dunno, Kanye West’s reality. BOOM! (Note to God: We’ll stop eating meat for a whole month if the Cashman blog does a posi post on this.)

Yesterday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission announced a plan to make radical changes to public education in Philadelphia. And already some Bread & Roses Community Fund supporters have asked how those of us who support social justice should respond. To get a better sense of what a diverse cross-section of Philadelphians are thinking, can you [...]

It is here that we ask you: If there’s a goddamned Larry Fine mural, where, pray tell, is our Dead Milkmen mural? Imagine our surprise and honor when Dean “Clean” Sabatino of the Dead Milkmen chimed in on yesterday’s post about that time the Dead Milkmen played on MTV and made Downtown Julie Brown cry: [...]

It is here that we must admit something quite ugly lurking within ourselves: As rampant tire slashings plagued that one block in Mayfair all winter long and the attendant local TV news coverage showed, week after blasted week, the spittle-encrusted livid faces of the victims, cursing their Job-like fates and the mysterious perp who SIMPLY [...]