>>>If you checked out the Ryan Gosling-vehicle Drive and found yourself talking about the soundtrack after the film more than the film itself, you may want to head over to Union Transfer tonight for The Drive Tour. The show features soundtrack artists College and Electric Youth, and similar-but-not-soundtracked Anoraak. Don’t forget your satin scorpion jacket. [...]

And now, a reason not to return that book you checked out in 2005: A recent Office of the Inspector General investigation into the Free Library of Philadelphia found that three employees have embezzled more than $9,000 in…overdue book fines. Natalie Collins, Linda Robinson, and Patricia Finley, library assistants at the Haddington, Kingsessing, and Wyoming [...]

The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) has received a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant of $1.35 million to, “deliver out of school time services to Philadelphia students.” The PAEP will use the grant to draw on their current work in Arts Link: Building Competencies in Mathematics and Science through an Arts Integration Model, [...]

Watch More News Videos at ABC 2012 Presidential Election Entertainment & Celebrity News Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey was on ABC News with George Stepahnopoulos yesterday to talk about the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and spoke about his fear that the issue of gun control in the shooting will fade away. Ramsey told Stepahnopoulos, For [...]

We know a lot of you guys were probably across the river in Camden this weekend to check out the XPoNential Music Festival, but for those of you who weren’t, XPN’s The Key has got audio, video, setlists, and photos for many of the weekend’s performers. You can check out audio and video from Dawes, [...]

Coming up this fall, the 16th annual Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival will be celebrating 16 years with 16 days of events, covering nearly everything you can imagine. Dance, music, theater, art, improv, comedy, film, and things that fall into neither or all of those categories will be on display from September 7th to the 22nd. [...]

Philadelphia by-way-of Georgia band Baroness went ahead and got themselves a little write up in the New York Times playlist section on Friday. What’s so great about them? We’ll let the NYT tell you: Classification counts for a lot in metal, which has long been this band’s native habitat, but it’s the least illuminating approach [...]

As part of the Republican “we don’t really believe in our nominee so let’s try to get him to win by just stopping people from being able to vote” strategy, the PA State GOP-ers put all of their eggs in the voter ID law basket. So, with all of that going on, it’s worth checking [...]

It is well known that we live in a city full of rich history and character, bursting with stories to tell. It is these stories that we should know, and rather than setting up your standard Wikipedia-style webpage about our dear city, the people at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers-Camden have [...]

A water-main break (not really a flood, we know) last night caused three to four blocks of residents around 21st and Bainbridge to be evacuated, according to the Inquirer. After nearly two feet of water rushed into the streets around 9PM, police were using boats to evacuate residents, which we’re guessing is not how many [...]