This is the only way we can account for the deluge of we’re-not-laughing-with-you videos by area realtors who would seem to be involved in a desperately earnest bid to encourage renting whenever possible. For those of you who perhaps thought that Liz Lutz’s “Call Me Maybe” was perhaps too overtly bad, we give you The [...]

On the heels of today’s sad news about the (temporary, we hope) loss of a Philadelphia Tradition, one reader is moved to write: Philebrity steps in to mount an amateur, and amateurish, version of Bike Race ’13. Byko is honorary grand marshall. Tweedies and nudists and Whimsys and those a capella singing dudes and the [...]

Any of you who might have happened to peruse “I Am Manti Te’o’s Mother,” one of the more notably asinine pieces on PhillyMag lately, might have wondered just who the fuck its author, Sandy Hingston, is. Turns out, “author #69 from Berkley Jove Authors” is a cat lady from Pottstown who writes bodice-rippers like the [...]

This just in over the transom from City Hall: Philadelphia, January 22, 2013 – Mayor Michael A. Nutter committed the City of Philadelphia to work toward securing a major pro cycling event in 2014 in the wake of an announcement that the current cycling championship has been canceled for this year. “While we are all [...]

Here is a little piece of inside-Philly-gay-media baseball for you: Everytime Mark Segal speaks, thinking people, of every sexual preference, groan. And that’s a damn shame. Because even though Segal, the publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, has done more for gay rights in his lifetime than you can shake a stick at, at this point, [...]

I just found out that R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide 26 years ago today. Apparently, there is a documentary about Budd. I still remember this vividly, as this scared the shit out of my 7-year-old self. Also, I still don’t like that Filter song. Neither do we, man. Neither do we.

Start making preparations for #ErinExpress2013 @uwishunu @phillydotcom @phillyinquirer @philebrity @visitphilly @visitpa @phillydailynews — Erin Express 2013 (@ErinExpress2013) January 22, 2013 As self-respecting possessors of at least 25% Irish blood, we are fully prepared to shame you on this, your annual “Casual Friday” for would-be Mummers. We meant it when we said it’s Us Vs. The [...]

Oh yes: This will end well.

As leaked on ?uestlove’s Instagram feed (has it come to this, world of music publicists?), the 2013 Roots Picnic will go down on Sunday, June 1 at Festival Pier, and it’ll look a little something like this: 6th Annual Roots Picnic Lineup: The Roots Gary Clark Jr. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Grimes Naughty By Nature [...]

If you enjoyed the rumbly, sweet and crashy music that punctuated Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom last summer, you may already be a Benjamin Britten fan and not even know it; his famous piece for kids, The Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra, lined that movie. The composer, whose centenary would have been this year, is [...]

Today, the Pro Cycling Tour made the surprise announcement that the bike race you like to go to Manayunk and watch will be canceled, at least for 2013. They say it’s just a one-year hiatus and that they’re gonna retool it: “We feel that we will be able to reorganize with new partners and make this [...]

Montgomery and Delaware County state senator Daylin Leach has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana. We got glaucoma just thinking about it, but then we read that the bill was essentially a recreational bill along the lines of those in Washington and Colorado and our glaucoma cleared right up. Leach has two cosponsors, both Democrats (out [...]