Cheri Honkala, a long time activist and executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) who recently ran an unsuccessful bid for sheriff, has been named Jill Stein‘s running mate on the Green Party presidential ticket, according to Time. During her run for sheriff, whether she was throwing parties, riding horses, hanging with the [...]

In a rare win for the public good last month, The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation set out to fundraise $6,000 in an email campaign and ended up with $52,000. According to Newsworks, the campaign was the first of its kind for the FLPF and representatives are optimistic for future fundraising efforts. The funds will [...]

The American Revolution Center‘s Museum of The American Revolution, which has been in the works for quite a while now, has taken one more step in the direction of … well, existing. Thanks to a donation of $10 million from “America’s first ally,” the Oneida Indian Nation, the museum is now 25% of the way [...]

Above, Philly comedian Doogie Horner discusses the valuable work he — and all of us, really — have been doing on the Internet since the mid-1990s.

We’ve already spent way too much time today staring at our new favorite tumblr, What’s Dave Kendall Wearing, from Geekadelphia contributor Chris Cummins, so we figured why not bring you into it. Dave Kendall’s closest heir apparent, Carson Daly, came from the same school of “Act like/dress like the people I am interviewing,” and it’s [...]

We’ve given the people at Urban Playground a rough time in the past, but maybe we’re becoming gentler, or maybe we understand the desire to be childish, or maybe this recent string of heat has begun to melt our brains, but a big water balloon fight doesn’t sound too bad to us right now. If [...]

When we heard about the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, we thought it was some crazy boarding school that really flexible kids got sent because they didn’t fit in anywhere else. Turns out the PSCA is just an afterschool program like Pop Warner or Key Club, except cooler. They also offer adult circus classes, which [...]

And this comes one step closer to reality It turns out that whole “Maybe we’ll just auction off that last PA casino license even though the law says it must be in Philadelphia” thing isn’t going to happen after all. It was announced today that the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has opened the application period [...]

No matter the context, few things make a song have that summertime feel than horns. And that’s why Johnny Action Figure‘s “Lomez” is hitting us in all the right spots right now. We said it before, but we’re picking up what you’re putting down guys. Johnny Action Figure’s new digital EP, Solar Bear, comes out [...]

>>>Proving he’ll do just about anything if you give him enough dollars, Snoop Dogg will perform a 30-minute halftime concert at the Philadelphia Soul game on July 28th. He will be joined by the diabolical Biz Markie. [Daily News] >>>Michael Vick has started his own clothing line, V7 (V8 was already taken). Commence punch-line writing [...]

Remember when we told you that Finnigan’s Wake was getting a grant of $74,000 from the Penn Treaty Special Services District and you guys all got (rightfully) pissed off? SIKE! They’re totally not getting that grant. Well, they were, but then one of Finnigan’s co-owners was all like, “Whoa, man people really don’t seem to [...]

El-P is a busy man. On top of putting out his own critically acclaimed record, Cancer 4 Cure, this year, he also produced Killer Mike‘s R.A.P. Music, which is even more critically acclaimed. That’s gotta feel weird. But it looks like the whose-album-was-better-even-though-I-produced-both-of-them feeling El-P probably has deep down inside of him isn’t bothering him [...]