FRIDAY: >>>All nerds, listen up: Wizard World is in town this weekend, featuring Scott Bakula. There are a lot of other people there (most more famous), but all you need to know is: Scott Bakula. >>>...
RECOMMENDED: With summer semi-officially underway, it seems appropriate that nearly every movie opening this weekend is as dumb as a bag of rocks — not necessarily a bad thing, especially if yo...
Using Philadelphia as an example, this graphic compares the cost, both financial and societal, of education and incarceration. Designed by Jason Killinger for Maskar Design.
Aw shucks: Due to a wily weather forecast, we are postponing tonight’s Underwater Moonlight/Narragansset Summer Ale Beer Week Launch Party to next Friday, June 8. But don’t be too sad: It...
Even if frontman Shawn Kilroy wasn’t an O.G. Philebrity commenter and awesome dude we have known since 1988, we’d still love his band Weird Hot, who never fail to live up to their name. T...
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the University City District’s Heart & Soul project, which will put pianos into public spaces because this is a great idea and making music is good...
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Today finds Mayor Michael A. Nutter and City Councilman David Oh puffing their chests and advancing legislation that seems like it’s about vandalism unt...
Just kidding. What is wrong with you?
On the other hand, there is something just so, so classless and hilarious about ordering $50 worth of Crab Fries to the 300 Level, we are almost tempted to do it. Oh, Philly.
At 21st and the Parkway over Memorial Day weekend and on Baltimore Avenue during this past week, homeless advocates have staged a sort of pop-up photo both asking Mayor Nutter specifically, “Wh...
>>>Hey you! Yes, you. You look like you need a good laugh. Let three of the funniest people around take care of that for you at Big Tobasco & Little China. Juliet Hope Wayne, Doogie Horner, and ...
>>>Our summertime pool party/good vibes fest/friend hang officially began a few weeks ago, but join us tomorrow night for our Beer Week Kickoff Pool Party. We’ll be launching Narragansett Summe...
We knew it was awful, but we loved it in its own special way. And now, our love has been taken from us. According to the Inquirer, New Century Travel, Inc. (also known as The Chinatown Bus) has been ...
SlipSlideSkinnyWide by The Love Club Our search for the summer jams of 2012 has led us to Philly’s own The Love Club, and their new full-length, Full Length. It’s that mix of surf punk, p...
When he’s not paying someone to tweet for him, or making memorable tweets of his own, Jim Kenney is a Councilman. And with his day job, he’s trying to make it a bit easier for natives who...
According to the Washington Post, an appellate court in Boston has decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, saying “only the Supreme Court will be able to settle the questi...
Every once in a while, we like to take a look across the Delaware River to see what’s going on over in Camden. Rarely does that require the GOOD NEWS header, but this story does. A bunch of bud...
As part of a plan to cut down on the city’s sugar intake, Mayor Bloomberg is trying to, “ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street c...
When WHYY’s Chris Satullo took to Newsworks to ask what the deal was with all the negativity about the state of public schools in Philadelphia, he probably didn’t expect award-nominated D...
It’s as cliché as that Robert Doisneau poster in a girl’s college dorm room, but whatever: We love Wes Anderson like nobody’s business, and around here, anytime he comes out with a ...
Well, it’s been just over a year since the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts French-ified our dear city, and in under a year from now, they’ll be taking it back in time. PIF...
>>>Flyers fans may be torn on who to support in the Stanley Cup Final, but Ed Snider isn’t: Snider has thrown his full support behind the LA Kings and former Flyers Mike Richards and Jeff Carte...
Last week we told you about three shareholder resolutions coming to a vote for Urban Outfitters. The resolutions included a call for the board of directors to, “commit to considering diversity ...
Michelle Obama will be coming to Philadelphia next Wednesday to hold a “grassroots event” according to the Morning Call. Or, as most of you have just read this: Traffic will be a nightmar...
This was awesome. And then it was on Pitchfork.
The lone Philly entry in Newsweek‘s America’s Best High Schools 2012 was Central High School, which shot in at #375 — a much higher entry than most of the Philly-area suburban high school...
They were, without a doubt, the finest stoner joke rock band New Hope had ever produced. They were everything Phish fans ever wanted Weird Al Yankovic wanted to be, and everything Weird Al ever wante...
And the most exciting show of the summer is, un-ironically and with complete sincerity and you can stick your Radiohead up your ass… NEW EDITION, SALT-N-PEPA & EL DEBARGE @ The Mann, 8/05....
Here is an excerpt from a fun infographic by I Shot Him for Massive Health that shows what you already know: As a city, we’re a bunch of fat loads. Click on the link to see the whole thing, and...
Stock up on popcorn, make sure you have “do shot” material, and don’t forget to set your DVRs, for this shall be a blessed occasion: ABC’s 20/20 is currently running teasers o...
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