For the unfamiliar, Dengue Fever is only the finest Cambodian psychedelic surf-rock band in the land. And Omar Souleyman? Why, he’s like a Syrian Tom Jones. And both of them are playing at Union Transfer next Tuesday, where you can expect minds to be blown, boundaries both geographic and musical to be crossed, and one [...]

Oh the four-day work week. Right when you get in the rhythm of it, it ends. And then, you can hit the beach, relax, or get some extra work done. Or, you could meet Scott Bakula. Your call. This year’s Wizard World Philadelphia convention is going on from Thursday to Sunday and will feature appearances [...]

This year, we’re doing Philly Beer Week right, with two music and beer-filled events. Just added: The Sierra Nevada Shindig at Fergie’s with Birdie Busch on Tuesday, June 5th. We’ve long counted Birdie Busch as one of our very favorite Philly artists, and we’re stoked to have her join us for this free show, downstairs [...]

That video you see above (and the petition it supports) has been passed around by Tina Fey, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Hunter Pence, Ryan Howard, Judy Blume and more. Gov. Tom Corbett‘s deep cuts into public education have caused damage state-wide, but in Upper Darby, in order to stay afloat, the arts may have to [...]

Shot at the the NON-COMM Convention a few weeks back by the BITBY guys, and as timely a reminder as ever that Slave Ambient should really be in your summer bliss-out rotation.

Now, look: We cannot and will not pretend that we have had anything, really, to do with with nuts and bolts of why both the City Paper and Philadelphia Weekly have been failing so miserably in recent times. They did that entirely on their own; we just happen to take advantage of it, any chance [...]

>>> Possible outbreak of measles at Barcade. And though measles is no joke at all, there is something kind of fitting, is there not, that measles, which we haven’t even thought about since the fourth grade, would break out at Hipster Chuck E. Cheese. You’re a sly one, Higher Power. We’ll give you that at [...]

Nydia Han thinks she’s Kim Kardashian… And here I thought she was just a nice woman that reads the newspaper to me on tv. She’s farming out her newborn baby on television and looking like she spent 9 months writing down everything she would say. We hear what you are saying, but: A) when you [...]

BIG fun. Fans of local, independent movie screenings already know: The folks behind The Awesome Fest, the roving, year-long series of indie movie screenings around town, have a fever for making the kind of cheap-or-free fun that makes this city a better place. And recent developments indicate: The only cure for the fever is more [...]

A few months ago, here’s how the hierarchy of local sports was laid out: The Eagles, followed by the Phillies, and then Flyers. Way down past those rabid, cargo shorts’d fans of the fly-guys sat the fans of the Philadelphia 76ers. Sure, few people in town didn’t want the Sixers to do well, but if [...]

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