FRIDAY: >>> The second in a series of film screenings to support Ladyfest is going on tonight, with a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman at AUX. >>> Daptone’s Charles Bradley, who will be the most soulful man in Philadelphia for one night (and the sweatiest man in the world every night) brings his [...]

In rebellion of everything Byko knows and loves, Philadelphia is a very bikeable city. In fact, it’s the fourth most bikeable city in the country. According to Bike Score, Philly is good enough for a bike score of 68.4, good enough for fourth place behind Denver, San Francisco, and — of course — Portland. You [...]

As last year came to a close, we found out about the city’s plan to add a bike share program to Philadelphia in 2014. The Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities, they of mimes and signs, will be taking the first step towards making it all happen next week when they host “some of the [...]

Is Stu Bykofsky still alive?He owes me five bucks. — Frank Rizzo (@RizzosGhost) March 16, 2013 This one has so much potential, and so far, so meh.

Pipe in however you want about your favorite food blog or food blogger, this much is true: Perennially annoyed-at-the-Internet and “Firsties!”-obsessed Philly.com food columnist Michael Klein still lords over the city’s gastromedia with an iron fist masked by that soft, beautiful, blown-dry hair. Klein’s continuously-challenged reign, we are told by people in the biz, is [...]

First, maybe a bit of good news: We think we might be this close to going out on a limb here and saying that Philly’s longstanding Brain Drain might be approaching a state of remission. Anecdotally, within the admittedly bubble-ish world of the creative class, we see things daily that say this to us. Friends [...]

The last time we checked in on the lovers spat between Interstate General Media and the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia, they were having issues. But Dan Gross was standing up for all that is righteous and reasonable and then he took a buyout. And since Dan Dan isn’t watching anymore, IGM is trying some [...]

When we first read Patty-Pat Kozlowski‘s Byko-esque call in the Daily News for Muslim women to uncover their faces so we can know if they are actually criminals in disguise or not (let that sink in for a second), we were all kinds of riled up. The ease with which some will offer to give [...]

EHHHHRRRR, AH, HOY HOY, YOU SCUM-SUCKING, TOTE-BAG-TOKING, AL FRESCO FIXED GEAR NINNYS! FOR NOW IT CAN BE REVEALED: AS WE SPEAK, I, STUART “STU” “BYKO” BYKOFSKY, BORN OF STRONG EASTERN EUROPEAN STOCK INTO A WORLD YOU LITTLE QUEERS WOULD FIND COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE, I, ME, BYKO, MYSELF… I AM DANCING ON YOUR GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVES! Did you ever [...]

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 [...]

In perhaps the single most I’m-taking-the-buyout-because-this-ship-is-finally-definitively-going-down move we’ve yet seen, Daily News gossip columnist/head of the Newspaper Guild Local 10 Dan “Dan” Gross has announced he’s taken the DN’s buyout offer and will depart from The People Paper, effective February 1. (Here’s his sayanora to the Guild.) We’re less troubled by the departure of Gross [...]

>>> To all of you pro-Mummers commenters bitching that the racism on display on January 1 was only being talked about by white people: African-Americans in the media are starting to take notice. And guess what? They’re not psyched, either. Shocking! [TheGrio] >>> And (hopefully) wrapping it all up nicely is this thoughtful Tara Murtha [...]

>>> Here is video linked from Slate of the Ferko performance, which for our benefit, doubles as a horrible race argument all over the comments. [YouTube] >>> Jonathan Zimmerman over at Philly.com breaks down the inclusion of “drag queens” in the parade, its history, and what it means for the future. [Philly.com] >>> And here’s [...]

As the result of years of studies and work, the Mayors Office of Transportation and Utilities has announced a plan to bring a Bikeshare to Philadelphia by 2014. According to MOTU, “With Bikeshare, Philadelphians don’t have to worry about storing a bike or fixing a flat tire and you can take a trip that you [...]

While it’s true that, generally speaking, we love us some Inga Saffron, the Inquirer architecture critic’s Friday column has gone over like a fart in church. Ostensibly on Haas & Hahn’s mural project on Germantown Avenue, commissioned by Mural Arts, she has generally good things to say about the piece itself, as a work of [...]

In 2002, six cyclists died from accidents with motor vehicles in Philly. Last year, two died. And in the years between 2002 and last year, the number of people riding to and from work (and just around the city) on bikes has more than doubled, according to The Inquirer. The idea behind the drop in [...]

And for once, we’re not just talking page count or reader count or human count. “The Inquirer and Daily News posted a memo on Wednesday annoucing that they will shrink the size of the paper by about four inches, taking the two dailies from 48 inches wide (unfolded) to 44 inches,” says CBS Philly. Those [...]

EEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Fuckers! It’s you again! It’s me again! IT’S THAT MOTHERFUCKING SIDEWALK AGAIN! Do you know what it’s like! Do you know what it’s like to walk these molten streets of shame, where once my very name was good enough for four, five Johnny Walker Blacks in any drinking establishment in this city, WHERE MY [...]

We mentioned this a few weeks back, but just in case, here’s a friendly message from your friends at The Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) and the Philadelphia Streets Department: Are there any abandoned bicycles crowding the sidewalk in your neighborhood? Now’s your time to do something about it! The Mayor’s Office of [...]

To put it mildly, these have not been good days at the Daily News. Morale has never been lower (read this Gail Shister piece and wince along) due to the constant threat of layoffs and other exits, as well as various old-guard disgraces (see the Bill Conlin scandal and Byko‘s odd sex tourism pieces), and [...]