Archive for August 21st, 2012

And Now, Here Is Stephen Starr’s High School Yearbook Photo

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Is that Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? A pre-makeup member of KISS? Nope, it’s Stephen Starr in his senior year yearbook photo. The photo was sent our way from twitter user KateKelly512, and boy are we grateful. We just hope he’s still got that shirt, and with that hair, he would’ve fit in well here.

Little Free Library/Book Nook Thing On N. Second Street, You Are So Cute We Could Eat You

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

OH, HELLO, THERE, LITTLE FELLOW, what are you? Oh, I see: Says here you are a book-trading post, or a Little Free Library. And here you are on North Second in Old City, where anyone can grab a little book out of you, or put one in, and voila! Enlightenment! Well, isn’t that just… can [...]

The Creators Of Heavy Metal Parking Lot Are Going To Be At PhilaMOCA And Would Someone Please Show Up Dressed Like The “Punk Belongs On Mars” Guy

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, the two men behind one of cinema’s shortest masterpieces, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, will be coming to PhilaMOCA on September 28 to talk about Heavy Metal Parking Lot, their other works, and Heavy Metal Parking Lot. At the event, presented by Cinedelphia, Krulis and Heyn will walk the audience through, [...]

Quarterly Report On Homeless Population Shows 2% Decrease

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

The City of Philadelphia’s Point in Time Homeless Count has been released, and this quarter the number of “street homeless” in the city decreased from 601 last summer to 588 this year. In addition, “the number of persons living on the street in Center City decreased by 7%, while those in West Philadelphia and the [...]

Paul Ryan Will Be At The Union League Tonight

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

According to City Paper, VP candidate and expert fundraiser Paul Ryan will be at the Union league at 5:30PM tonight for a fundraising dinner. HughE Dillon is reporting that the dinner is $50,000 a plate, which doesn’t sound outlandish for the Romney campaign, but our source with insight into the Union League has doubts that [...]

This Friday! New Wave Pool Party @northshorebeach W/ DJ Robert Drake!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Attn. People of Earth: Summer is not over yet! Join us on Friday night at North Shore Beach Club, as the host of WXPN‘s Land Of The Lost DJ Robert Drake joins us poolside with a serious ROCK OF THE 80s mix. (Also, it just so happens that this is on the same night that [...]

The Archdiocese Is No Longer Interested In Running High Schools

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Cardinal Charles Chaput announced today that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will no longer manage the area’s Catholic High Schools itself, but instead the schools will be run by the Faith in the Future Foundation (not this group of the same name, which is all about the apocalypse, though wouldn’t that be fun). According to the [...]

Secret Pants Wants You To Get Your Chrysler LeBarrow At Gareth Barbarrow’s Barrowland

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Have you ever wondered what those ever-present Gary Barbera ads would sound like in old timey England? No? Well Secret Pants did, and that’s all that matters. With this, and their other most recent video, it seems pretty obvious that someone over at Secret Pants recently watched Braveheart … or Army of Darkness.

SugarHouse Investor Doesn’t Want The Casino, Which Is Cheap By Nature, To Be Cheapened

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

“Haha,” said everyone in earshot: Backers of the SugarHouse casino are currently tied up in a court case over the gaming hall’s future. According to the Inquirer, investors from Chicago want to make phase two of the casino smaller, while local backer Robert Potamkin is against the downscaling, saying “We want a first-class casino, not [...]

Who Needs Hunter Pence As A Player When You’ve Got 45,000 Hunter Pence Bobbleheads To Give Out

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

When the Phillies traded Hunter Pence to the San Francisco Giants last month, it seems like Ruben Amaro Jr. forgot to look at the stadium’s inventory list. On said list were 45,000 Hunter Pence bobbleheads, scheduled to be given out tonight since before the season began, and with Pence way out in San Francisco, what [...]

And Now, Here Are Your 2012 Philly Geek Awards Winners

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Prior to the award show this past weekend, we spoke to Eric Smith of Geekadelphia, who said the Philadelphia Geek Awards were gunning for Barrymore-level longevity. They’ve still got about 15 years before they can reach that level, but at this year’s 2nd annual event, the awards did not disappoint. Hop after the jump for [...]