>>>At tonight’s In Between Days, during a mix of all of the best tunes from ’92-’02, “Virtual Insanity” will be played. When that happens, DJ Michael Prince will buy a beer for the person who does the best Jamiroquai dance. It might be the whitest moment of all time, but it’ll be a blast. >>>It’ll [...]

David O. Russell‘s The Silver Linings Playbook, or as we affectionately call it; Delco: The Movie, is receiving big buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival. According to Deadline, the response to the film in Toronto is leading The Weinstein Company to push some serious Oscar campaigning around it. Reportedly, they’ll push for Best Picture [...]

On September 22nd, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will open their newest exhibit, Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and “The Life Line.” To mark the occasion of the exhibit’s opening, and honor those who act with bravery every day to help anyone in need, the museum is offering free admission to area First Responders and their families [...]

Seen on Passyunk East Maybe Mr. Ming Gir should have thought twice about getting his name on a license plate. Or the dude at the Office of Personalized License Plate Inspections (that’s a thing, right?) should have thought, “Hmm….maybe we rework this a bit.” Just a thought. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it [...]

It’s only slightly more subtle than this. Further justifying Pennsylvania’s de facto state slogan “The Mississippi of the North,” Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Tom Corbett has bequeathed a benevolent dispensation to the huddled masses of Philadelphia County and ordered five of Philadelphia county’s PennDOT Driver’s License ID centers to expand their hours of operation from [...]

When Justin Vernon broke onto the scene a few years back, some (misinformed) people thought his name was Bon Iver. It’s an understandable mistake, since his first album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was full of songs that featured nary a second performer. But then came all the buzz around the story (he recoreded the album [...]

If nothing else, this shows that many great musicians go through their own dangly-earring-let’s-change-how-my-songs-sound phase. Bob Dylan (who celebrated his 71st birthday this year) will be playing the Wells Fargo Center on November 19 with his band, and support will be provided by Mark Knopfler (who did for headbands what grunge did for flannel … [...]

What we would have known if only we looked a bit to the right: Tucked in the column next to his great yearbook photo, Stephen Starr listed his likes and dislikes. Among his likes were (and hopefully still are), “Mott the Hoople, Alice Cooper, Dead Babies, sleeping with multi-colored jungle creatures, Rod Stewart, sensual experiences, [...]

Yesterday, we took a more … gut-feeling based look at the possibility of a Phillies playoff berth. Today, let us look at it statistically. (Note: We broke our unwritten “No math before 10AM” rule for this) Last night, the Phillies beat the Marlins again which, in addition to a St. Louis loss to the Padres, [...]

Police are currently looking for more information in the killing of Kyra Cordova, a trans woman who was found shot in the head in Frankford last week. Friends of Cordova, who was well known as an advocate in the LGBT community, are hosting a candlelight vigil in her memory tomorrow night at the William Way [...]