>>> Standard Tap is celebrating all things Moz with a Morrissey/The Smiths-themed karaoke contest, and the winner will get a pair of tickets to see the Pope of Mope at his recently rescheduled (and totally Sold Out) Atlantic City show. There are also some Moz themed tattoos available on the cheap at Northern Liberty Tattoo, [...]

Some very unsettling news came out of the federal trial against Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi today: According to The Inquirer, mob turncoat Louis Monacello testified today that Ligambi threatened to kill Jerry Blavat in 2009. Apparently, Ligambi believed Blavat was the source of a Philadelphia Magazine (it’s always Philly Mag, isn’t it) story about the [...]

Statistics. Depending on which ones you look at, a vastly different image of an area can be gleaned from another. For example, when Richard Florida ranked the nation’s music scenes based on “Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on the concentration of musicians and, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis stats on music and recording industry business [...]

We know we already mentioned to you this Writers-on-Springsteen thing happening at Kelly Writers House later this week, but there is another author appearance, possibly of greater import, happening tonight. John Jeremiah Sullivan. The man is an absolute monster on the page. He’s probably the best living American essayist in the game right now. And [...]

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S., a new documentary from local filmmaker, activist, and attorney Matt Pillischer, started as a film about sever overcrowding in Philadelphia jails, and “evolved into an indictment of systemic racism that occurs in the entire criminal justice system.” The film [...]

Having already nearly bankrupted the Philadelphia Orchestra and at long last stepping down with either triumphant shame or shameful triumphalism, Peter Nero leaves his old band, The Philly Pops, in a strange position: Who drives the bus now? To whom will the mantle fall of spreading the gospel of Classical Music For People Too Dumb [...]

A concerned reader wrote in this morning: Arthur Kade interview with Paula Broadwell just played on Good Morning America. I can officially watch no other television but Bravo for the rest of my life. Until, of course, Kade and Jill Kelley actually get a show on Bravo (With Cashman as show runner? Because real talk, [...]

We look at it this way: If 59 wards in this city can manage to garner absolutely zero votes for Mitt Romney, and, by contrast, if thousands of Pennsyltuckians can begin to make headway on having the state of PA secede from the Union, that can only mean that there are mandates out there just [...]