Seriously, when is the last time you watched Hardbodies? Yes, it might have been titillating back in the mid-1980s when adolescent you saw it on the sly some way, somehow, but the precious gift of time has rendered the film absolutely, tantalizingly absurd. It’s creepy in so many ways it winds up being kind of [...]

Here’s one of the many fun/funny things about Nicholson Baker’s new self described “Book of Raunch,” House Of Holes. If one person around you is reading it, suddenly everyone around you is reading it. The book — a sort of light alternate-reality fantasy in which random horndogs (read: all humans) find themselves in the House [...]

We’ve been staring longingly and wistfully at the flyer for Cinémathèque Internationale of Philadelphia‘s “August 2011 Crime Spree” all week long. It’s like they’re in our heads: We love nothing more than movies that are French/movies about people stealing shit. It is truly the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of the visual world. Their series of [...]

We speak specifically of The Flying W Pool, which you will begin organizing a road trip to right now on the friends’ email list that has been for too long dominated by wedding and baby preparations (these things are great, but they’re not SWIMMING), and Weber’s Drive-In, where you will stop on the way and [...]

There are few things in Philadelphia that say summer more than Phillies baseball, and the record of nearly 200 consecutive sellouts at Citizens Bank Park shows that a lot of you are heading down to those games. But there is something weirdly special about taking in a day game on a weekday. The sun is [...]

We don’t need to tell you about the heartbreaking state of present-day South Street, because we pretty much haven’t shut up about it since this site launched almost seven years ago. But we try to, at least a couple of times a year, go down there and spend money as a form of tribute; Tattooed [...]