FRIDAY: >>>Hit up the brand-spanking-new Underground Arts for The Spinning Leaves 7″ release party with perpetual Philebs favorite Juliet Hope Wayne. >>>French pop and psychedelia is on full display at The Trestle Inn‘s Ooh La La, a cornucopia of all things awesome. >>>Drag queen-Queen Martha Graham Cracker brings her “campy cultural commentary” to the PMA [...]

ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMENDED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES: Do you remember a few years back, when everybody was supposed to give a shit about the American version of The Office because it was an Important Cultural Event that it didn’t suck and was supposed to speak to some version of the American Philosophical Condition? Well, that was [...]

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Call it juvenile if you like, but we picked up Lester Bangs‘s Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung sometime in the late 1980s, and if we are to be honest, we’ve never put it down for long. A life spent with Lester can have its diminishing returns, for sure, but in those early years, it gave [...]

We’ve been hearing about this place for years, but this video seals the deal: We’d like to be locked in at Greg’s for no less than 24 hours. As soon as possible.

After promising for a long time to get as much City data online as possible, The Dude finally put it on paper: Philadelphia, April 26, 2012 – Mayor Michael A. Nutter signed an executive order to establish an Open Data policy, which will provide increased access and will enhance the transparency of City data sets. [...]

· What does it mean when the world’s most fuck-you people win one of the world’s largest piles of fuck-you money? Philly, you’re about to find out! · Fast forward 10 years: We’re wagering that 24 of these folks will still be on the SEPTA payroll, somehow, someway, like strange magick. · Google Shopping results [...]