>>> FDR Skatepark: A Visual History is a 168-page hardcover photo book that features contributions from 25 international photographers and transcribed interviews from park locals, all celebrating the majesty of Philly’s most real-deal skate destination. (Yeah, Love Park gets all the press, but FDR is a way of life.) Celebrate that shit tonight at Exit. [...]

Philly’s music scene lost a true friend, supporter and participant a few months back when Daniel James Krawiec left this plane. As many folks in a variety of scenes here could tell you, Dan lived for music, and liked nothing more than going to to shows and rocking the fuck out. Not only was Dan [...]

On the list of common complaints about the PPA, somewhere near the top (behind “They’re evil” and “Fuck this city”) is that fighting a ticket feels like a lost cause. Well, thanks to Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker, that is no longer the case. According to Ronnie Polaneczky at the Daily News, Judge Tucker has [...]

Local 4-piece Bleeding Rainbow (formerly Reading Rainbow, and formerly a duo) will be releasing their newest LP, Yeah Right, in October on Kanine Records. Kanine was an early home to Grizzly Bear and still counts Surfer Blood, and future BR touring-mates Eternal Summers among their roster. The now louder-and-rockier Bleeding Rainbow’s August-September tour with Eternal [...]

I took this at the corner of Brown & Corinthian right near Eastern State. Great to see them still in service right? With it that close to Eastern State, we’re a bit worried about who you’re gonna get on the other side of that line. But we’ll take this over yarnbombing any day. Seeing something [...]

?Hey, do you want to go to the Making Time HYPER-RAGER at Penn’s Landing on Friday? How about going to see Hot Chip at The Electric Factory on Saturday? Well both ticket contests are still open, so go ahead and give it a shot. We’re picking winners for both tomorrow morning, so cross your fingers [...]

Attention anyone clamoring for the days of electronic music before it was all based on laptops and bass drops: Above is Philly native Josh Wink (also known as Size 9) putting dub-steppers to shame at the German electronic festival Mayday in 1995. There’s this current ongoing debate in electronic music over what the biggest names [...]

This is how old some of us are: The first time we visited South Street’s Theatre Of The Living Arts, it was to see a movie. In the case of this writer, it was Laurie Anderson’s Home Of The Brave (Dad went through an ever-so-brief avant-garde phase, what can I say), but there’s also a [...]

Grizzly Grizzly and Tiger Strikes Asteroid art galleries are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind-in-Philadelphia art CSA. Much like the Community Supported Agriculture, this Community Supported Art supports a, “direct market-to-buyer relationship between artists and collectors working and living in the Philadelphia region.” Based on a model that originated in Minneapolis, the goal is to cultivate and [...]

Without a doubt, the wisecracking-yet-sublime kids’ show The Adventures Of Pete & Pete was (secretly) one of the five best things on TV in the 1990s. And it may not be a stretch to say it ushered in a whole new era of kids’ shows that adults could enjoy, too. (Without Pete & Pete, would [...]

For while it is true — it shall always be true — that losing your shirt in a fracas after you were caught stealing pampers, forcing you to run out of the store topless as you flee to a waiting car, is pretty classless and sad on an entire host of levels, it is, in [...]