>>> Chaz Bundick’s producer/songwriter alter ego Toro Y Moi is playing at Union Transfer tonight, along with Wild Belle and Dog Bite. TYM is touring in support of this year’s Anything in Return. >>> The Residents, the legendary weird-rock band who recently shed the decades-long anonymity, are playing at World Cafe Live as part of [...]

>>> Above is the trailer for Dead Man Down, that Colin Farrell/WWE Studios production that filmed around town a little while back. As you can tell from the modified subway map and the numerous shots of the NYC skyline, the movie is not set in Philadelphia, although a solid chunk of it was filmed here. [...]

It’s been nearly four months since we first saw the initial renderings of The Provence, the Bart Blatstein entertainment complex/casino set in the old Inquirer Buidling. And with tomorrow’s date with destiny on the horizon, we embarked on the only-kinda-awkward tour of the Inky building today, led by Paul Steelman, the designer and architect of [...]

Philebrity inbox, I wish I could punch you in your dumb fucking face: PHILADELPHIA is America’s Most Adulterous City?! Married Dating Site Reveals America’s Top Ten Cities for Cheaters Philadelphia, PA (February 11, 2013) Philly residents have been engaging in extra-marital behavior in record numbers, according to new data from married dating site AshleyMadison.com. The [...]

Matador Records dropped more details about the forthcoming, 69-minute-long double album by Kurt Vile. It’s called Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze, it’ll be out April 9th, and the first song to drop from it is the (nearly) eponymous “Wakin’ On A Pretty Day.” Accompanying the LP is a quick doc by Art Of The Steal/Last [...]

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… wherein the darkest truth might be this: Even though Wawa has, at this point, all but completely pulled out of Center City and done even the further indignity of then slapping its name onto Welcome America, we’re still Wawa people. Previously: Places We Can’t Understand: The Dirty Dirty-Ass Wawa At 11th & Arch

One day, Fleetwood Mac will play “Second Hand News” here without a shred of irony. As developer Bart Blatstein prepares to give his presentation of plans for Provence, his proposed Broad Street casino/atrium/weird thing nobody wants, to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Tuesday, Atlantic City-born architect Paul Steelman will provide a tour today of [...]

The Pope is old and weak and tired of priestly boytouching and school-closing and none of you going to church anymore and how exhausting it is to go to the Third World these days to try to get the poor to throw over whatever it was they believed before and sell them on the father/son/holy [...]

Like many in the local Twitterverse, we had a chuckle last night when Councilman Jim Kenney revealed, as seen above, that he just didn’t know who Taylor Swift was. On this count, at least, trust us, Councilman: Ignorance is bliss. But as we began to size up — for the first time, really, as both [...]