>>>PhilaMOCA’s got live music from Tom Guycot and a screening of the so-80s-it-hurts film Quiet Cool, a James Remar starring tale about a cop and his battle against dangerous marijuana growers in the Pacific Northwest that tops out at an epic 80-minutes long. >>>On the fast-and-loud side, Milk Music, Watery Love, and Bandname will be [...]

Street art. South Philly. # MPW twitter.com/Bourdain/statu… — Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) July 24, 2012 So far today, he’s been to DiBruno Brothers in the Italian Market, Paesano’s, and the Mütter Museum. Next thing you know, he’ll be texting us to come meet him at Loco Pez and asking us to come see his band at [...]

Courtesy of Think Progress, here’s a handy chart of consumer brands that are helping feed the monster that is PAC-funded conservative attack ads. The only one here that really bums us out is Waffle House, but it’s not like there’s even one around here to not patronize; as for the Lakers, well, Kobe Bryant, we’d [...]

Reacting to yesterday’s admittedly cheeky and not-at-all serious headline about the current Free Library embezzlement scandal, one refreshingly irony-immune reader was moved to comment on our Facebook page today. Which produced the following completely un-spellchecked exchange: I mean, have you met Victor Fiorillo?

Last month we told you about a simple little contract dispute the Philly Pops were having with their music director of 33 years and beard aficionado Peter Nero. The problem was that the Philly Pops didn’t have much money, and most of the money they did have was going to Nero. The Pops called Nero’s [...]

Continuing today’s nostalgic theme, let us turn our attention to Paul Simon: Live from Philadelphia, currently streaming on the Netflix. Shot in 1980 at the Tower Theater, it’s an artifact to be sure: Not just of what admittedly is one of our least-favorite-but-still-ya-gotta-give-it-to-the-guy Paul Simon eras — One Trick Pony, oddly tan, regrettably-patterned ringer tee [...]

It’s quite a thing to think on: Some days, the city that once claimed The Krass Brothers is all but unrecognizable from today’s Transplantadelphia. And it’s not a good thing. I mean, just look. These commercials ran relentlessly on Channel 17 for what felt like all of human time leading up to, oh, say, 1990… [...]

Via NYT: Philadelphia Church Official Sentenced to 3 to 6 Years for Covering Up Child Sex Abuse Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was sentenced to three to six years in prison on Tuesday. Monsignor [...]

In the wake of the tragedy in Colorado last week, The Dude went on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk gun control — and, specifically, why it’s a more burning issue at the local level than it is in the hands of national pols, who generally fumph around gun control, if indeed they [...]

Suitable for printing out and affixing to your refrigerator: The official lineup for those Midnight Movies at the TLA we were telling you about. On a related note: Does anyone have scans of those old schedules the TLA used to put out when it was primarily a repertory movie theater? We remember them as being [...]

Despite all of the positive news regarding the Benjamin Franklin Parkway this year — the opening of the Barnes Foundation, the re-opening of The Rodin Museum — it is a piece of road that is still lacking a certain something: Something like, oh, say, people who use it. Despite being designed by French urban planner [...]

Or, rather, he never stopped, but instead has begun to share it with the world again. The name Quentin Stolzfus may not ring a bell, but his former recording moniker, Mazarin, might. In the late 1990s and naughty oughties, Mazarin produced what many regard as the most shining pieces of evidence that Psychedelphia was truly [...]