>>>Random Tea Room will be showing sequences from the still-unfinished film Pines by David S. Kessler, Allen Crawford (aka Lord Whimsy) will be doing a reading, and there will be music from the soundtrack artists of Pines, the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra. Oh, and it’s free. >>>The people at Underground Arts know you want to [...]

This should be interesting. According to CBS 3, City Council approved a measure to give itself control over where bike lanes in the city are located. The new rules require city council approval for bikes lanes that, “result in the loss of a travel or parking lane,” (but apparently not the other way around) and [...]

>>>Joe Banner has been removed from the role of President of the Philadelphia Eagles, and the team’s COO Don Smolenski will take over. Because if there’s one thing Eagle fans complained about, it wasn’t the coaching, it was the front office. [Washington Post] >>>It may have seemed that the endless career of Jamie Moyer was [...]

The Mann Center‘s Reggae In The Park festival, of the perfect on-sale date, is happening this Sunday. The show features performances from the legendary Jimmy Cliff (above), Beres Hammond, Luciano, Trevor Hall, and more, and we’re not really big reggae nuts, so we’d rather you go and enjoy yourself. Share the enjoyment and music with [...]

Speaking at the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Inaugural National Soda Summit, Mayor Michael Nutter delivered a keynote address that may or may not have tipped dude’s hand regarding some potential anti-soda legislation here a la the recent ban in NYC. He said, in part: The biggest spender on lobbyists in Philadelphia for [...]

Way back in the wayback, there was a club in Cherry Hill, NJ called Emerald City. Throughout the 1960s, the locale enjoyed a run of Rat Pack-ish opulence as the famed Latin Casino. But by the early 1980s, not only had that era come and gone but so too, largely, had the disco craze of [...]

City Hall just opened a full can of worms when it introduced this week an add-on to the ongoing AVI property tax evaluation rehab project. Billed as a sort of innoculation against massive property tax hikes due to gentrification, a new provision would protect some whose houses jumped wildly in value, while leaving others (whose [...]

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