>>>King Tuff brings some summertime-rock’n’roll to Johnny Brenda’s with support from Habibi and Slutever. We’ll be there, and so should you. >>>And over at the 700 for the Philebrity Salon, Aaron Luis Levinson (aka the Kosherican) will be holding it down with a bag of records that would give eBay a heart attack.

>>>Though Phillies fans have been holding on to the “At least we have pitching” thoughts for a while, MLB players don’t think so. Four Phillies pitchers made the top 15 in a players poll of the most overrated players in baseball. [NBC 10] >>>Philly is a biophilic city, meaning Philadelphians have, “meaningful contact with nature.” [...]

Fireworks. If you really think about it, you really shouldn’t be that entertained by what is essentially colored explosions in the sky. We think about this sometimes, and then the firework show starts and we can’t help but be in awe of it. It taps into the childlike feeling of “WHOA! LOOK AT THE PRETTY [...]

It can be tough to juggle your hot lover in New York with your not so hot lover in Philly. Just ask Yahni, last night’s winning storyteller from the First Person Arts StorySlam. Don’t miss her story about a miraculous conception that would even have the Virgin Mary scratching her head. The theme was “My [...]

The Free Library of Philadelphia is introducing its first “Living Library” night next Wednesday, June 20th. From 7-8:30 PM, attendees can check out “human books,” aka, other real people, to “ask questions about their lives, careers, passions, and interests during three 15-minute ‘check-out’ periods.” This is beginning to sound curiously like the Library’s famed speed-dating [...]

If you ever wanted to scale a pint-sized rock wall or learn how a pendulum works with POTUS, now’s your chance. After an action-packed day in D.C. and Baltimore, the President of the United States of America (not to be confused with The Presidents of the United States of America), will be attending not just [...]

It seems while the Philadelphia Orchestra is making strides to come out of bankruptcy, the Philly Pops are still dealing with money troubles. According to CBS3, the Pops are looking to replace Peter Nero, their conductor for three decades, with someone cheaper. It makes snese, since the maintenance of that chin is probably five-figures in [...]

Or, at least that’s what Alan Shemper used to call it. But who ever said banks never did anything good? ArtPlace, a new national collaboration of foundations, banks and federal agencies formed to accelerate creative place-making across the U.S., has awarded grants totaling over $1 million to the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative [...]

While it spent last year in a confusing (to us anyway) partnership with Philly FM Fest, this year’s Riot Fest only has a shit-ton of other festivals to compete with. Luckily, the only thing most of those fests share is the word festival, and our need to lump them together. This year’s edition of Riot [...]

Proof that cops today are a hell of a lot cooler than they used to be: after a Chester drugstore and hydroponic growhouse of epic proportions was busted last May, the Delaware County District Attorney’s office decided to do something other than confiscate the equipment. Instead, they worked with the nonprofit Partnership Community Development Corp. [...]