This holiday season, you’re going to drink and eat, hard and heartily. You gosh-damn gluttons are going to do so until yer heads spin Linda-Blair-stylee. Two food things are most titillating this week. The first is Fette Sau, Stephen Starr’s…

Bruce Klauber is a snappy dresser, tireless raconteur and Philly jazz legend. The drummer led big bands, wrote books and produced DVDs about Gene Krupa. His album, Bruce Klauber Salutes Legends of Jazz Drumming, is an epic in the world…

Throughout the ’80s, Philadelphia gore-punk had a best friend in Paul Bearer. As the frontman of the Serial Killers, the lyricist/singer was a loud, shticky cross between Lou Reed and Don Rickles. Bearer’s between-song patter was cuttingly ribald and smart…

Jayson Musson is Internet-famous (at least in the art world) for his haughty comic persona, Hennessy Youngman. In Musson’s Art Thoughtz YouTube series, Hennessy critiques and mocks the crimes of the art world utilizing the language and sartorial splendor of…

There was no palace coup two years ago when Geoff Gordon took over the Philly branch of Live Nation, the concert-booking behemoth responsible for a good percentage of local shows by artists you’d hear when flipping through radio stations. It…

In the scheme of all things entertaining, John Waters is a jack-of-most-trades. He’s the campy film director who made Hairspray and Cry-Baby before they became Broadway musicals; a creepy actor (his newest movie is Excision); a conceptual artist and photographer…

Tashan publicist and all around gadabout George Polgar told me Tuesday morning that Bob Dylan ordered take out before his Monday night show at the Wells Fargo Center. Not just any old meal but a nosh (a largish nosh at…

Local developer Brian O’Neill is remaking this city from the South West on down. He’s got the will and he’s got the ways and means. O’Neill also has the focus and force to see a personal project through — the…

When last I spoke with J. Andrew Greenblatt, he was taking over the Roxy Theater and talking about this week’s start of the next Philadelphia Film Festival. What wasn’t reported during our chat was the fact that the PFF was…