Archive for July 3rd, 2012

Have You Done Your Part To Welcome America Yet? Get On It

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

As we come up to the 4th of July holiday itself, the 10-day Welcome America festival/events/cluster-of-people is beginning to wrap up. However, there’s still a ton of stuff going on today and tomorrow. Such as: TODAY: >>>You can add your touch to the Roots Mural project by helping paint it over at Independence Mall from [...]

In Case Cole Hamels Gets Traded While We’re Away, Here Are Our Prepared Responses

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Listen Cole, we’ve had a bit of a love/hate/love relationship with you in the past, but we can’t deny that on the field, you have done some amazing things. You played a HUGE part in bringing the World Fucking Championship home in 2008; what was possibly the greatest year in the history of Phillies baseball. [...]

Finnigan’s Wake Receives Grant For Expansion Because Of Course It Does

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Do you remember a little while back when we mentioned bastion of douchebaggery Finnigan’s Wake was going to expand to include a three-story outdoor bar? Did you think to yourself, “Oh boy, I hope they can get some money from someone else to help pay for that?” No? Well they did anyway. According to The [...]

R.I.P.: Andy Griffith, 1926-2012

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Aw man. Andy Griffith has died at the ripe old age of 86. Griffith, of course, was known mostly for his roles on The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, but we’ve also long admired him for his starring role in the completely enthralling 1957 film A Face In The Crowd. If you haven’t seen it, [...]

This Moment In Too-Good-To-Be-True Missed Connections: The Sexual Awakening Of Hamburger McFrosty

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

If they’d said it was the 11th & Walnut Wendy’s, we may have believed it.

Readers Write: Is It Too Soon For A Lorenzo’s Joke?

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

In a word, no, especially since they’re going to rebuild ASAP. So have at it, dear reader: Friend of mine says… Did you hear? Lorenzo’s had a HUGE fire. Yeah, they said it was so big you had to fold it in half. Bravo, man. Not bad at all. Here’s a big ol’ get-well-soon to [...]

As You Might Have Suspected, “Sugar Beach” Is Kind Of Bullshit

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Did you know that Sugar House is doing a pop-up beach for a week (presumably so that it can attract the cross section of people who are both degenerate gamblers and completely desperate to get to a beach, any beach)? Well, they are, and this is it. It’s not a beach so much as it’s [...]