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Put on your helmets, people: The ride is about to get bumpy. After yesterday’s controversial news regarding a slew of new fines and regulations for bicyclists being proposed by City Council, The Bicycle Coalition of Greater P (Read More)
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Dave Roberts, who’s been piling on the foundation and anthropomorphizing clouds since you were in short pants, will do his last broadcast on December 11th. Roberts joined the station in 1978 for the long-gone AM Philadelphia (Read More)
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· I Am The Grog Master: The Official Phoodie.info Grog Recipe · It’s Vintastic Craptastic: Beaujolais Nouveau Arrives Spreads Today · Finally, A Crawl We Can Get Behind (But Don’t Get Behind Us, Just Trust): Nacho Crawl Phila (Read More)
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As this film shows, even in 1947, people throughout the rest of the country regarded Philly as an unrepentant cesspool. Dig the bargain-basement James Mason narrator, too. From the utterly amazing Travel Film Archive, which a (Read More)
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So, because the Inky and its creditors are engaged in a byzantine battle over what ACTUAL MONEY is, the scheduled auction of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.’s media properties has been moved from its original date, which was to (Read More)
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One of the most baffling things we’ve noticed on this site over the last year or so is just how much of hot-button issue anything to do with bicyclists in Philadelphia is. On one hand, the amount of bike-positive progress we’ (Read More)
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Oh, SEPTA The Hut, I mean, Willie Brown! Everybody knows that, in all likelihood, SEPTA is probably doing right by your pension — it’s you guys in the Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 with whom we’ve all got major (Read More)
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This just in: Philadelphia Business Journal is reporting that a federal judge in Denver has ordered Temple grads Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr (pictured) to halt operations of their Bala Cynwyd, Pa. company, Mantria Corp.. imme (Read More)
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After a prompting from a commenter in yesterday’s “Double Dutch Bus” video post, here is a history lesson in the small role that Frankie Smith played in uncovering the “Yuppie Conspiracy” (dubbed as such by Federal authoritie (Read More)
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Jennifer An, one of our own as well as one of the final four in America’s Next Top Model (Season 13), has been given the boot as of last night. If you haven’t been following this season, Tyra has been up to her typical unorth (Read More)
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OH MY GOD! DO YOU LOVE DOGS! WE DO! THIS WEEKEND IS THE KENNEL CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW OUT IN OAKS, PA! IT’S ALSO THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW, AND IT WILL BE ON TV ON THANKSGIVING! WHICH IS ALSO A GREAT TIME TO GIVE THANKS FO (Read More)
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The Center for Literacy will hold the first demonstration of it’s kind to bring awareness to the fact that that illiteracy in Philadelphia affects way more people than just Charlie Kelly. On November 20th, at high noon, the C (Read More)
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GIMME A HO! IF YOU GOT YOUR FUNKY BUS FARE! From Wikipedia: “Double Dutch Bus” is a 1981 funk song by Frankie Smith, made famous for its extensive use of the “izz” infix form of slang. The song title represents a combination (Read More)
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This just in: A judge just gave Brian Tierney & Co. a new lease on life (maybe), saying that when the Inquirer and the Daily News go to auction this month, creditors don’t have the right to include existing liens in their bid (Read More)
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Posted earlier today in reply to “10 Funniest Comedians In Philadelphia List Reveals: Helium Comedy Club Is Literally Hell On Earth”: Why do you have to always put down everyone and everything? Just stick to the Arthur Kade b (Read More)
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You know, it’s actually a pretty good time for the comedy scene here in Philadelphia — at any rate, it’s the best we’ve ever seen. You’ve got a young scene with sketch troupes like Secret Pants and recurring nights/collective (Read More)
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Here’s ol’ Daryl, not enjoying music. This post is meant in no way to endorse the talents of Diane Birch, but on the other hand, we always did wonder what it would have been like if Blossom grew up to be kinda hot. (Read More)
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After the jump, photographer Jenelle Rittenhouse’s from Saturday’s Tweed Ride Philadelphia, which took place on Saturday. Says Jenelle: “It really was quite the fashionable jaunt.” We wonder what the overlap between this and (Read More)
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Fans of the dying beast that was once known as Stadium Rock, mark your calendars: Monday, July 12, 2010 is the day when Irish-old-guys-dressed-as-Russian-gangsters U2 will come to Philadelphia and fill Lincoln Financial Field (Read More)