Philly Roller Girls are looking for a 2012 season mascot and they’ll tapping WIP sports radio team help decide the winner. How can you become a derby mascot? You have to want it. Really want it. Then you have to…

On Monday we got the drop on putting up menus for Square Peg — chef Matt Levin‘s high-end comfort food salon with Barry Gutin and Larry Cohen (Cuba Libre, 32 Degrees) at the one-time home of Marathon Grill at 10th…

Big congrats to Sharon Pinkenson for not only reaching 20 years at the forefront of Philly cinema-dom as head/creator of the Greater Philly Film Office but for allowing M. Night Shyamalan and his wife Bhava to host an anniversary celebration…

My man pots and pans Jerry Blavat is celebrating the first anniversary of hosting his weekly Wednesday Sugar House dance jamboree and, last night, got Chubby Checker, the Trampps and writer Rich Podolsky (The Man with the Golden Ear, about…

Alden, Pa.-raised, University of the Arts graduate Shane O’Neill is in for the fight of his life tonight. At the very least, it’s the fight of his tattoos’ life as he is one of three challengers for the championship prize…

If you didn’t know the end of Le Bec-Fin was near, you’ve not been paying attention to the signs. Despite the rebranding of its basement space as Tryst and the threats of closure from Georges Perrier that resulted in a…

The one-night-only pre-opening of Hop Sing Laundromat in Chinatown happened Wednesday night. I must say, from the exact placement of its etchings and candelabras to the open coziness of its aisles (wide enough to drive Lee’s invention of a silver…

After several years of false starts and false hopes, Chiddy Bang is finally, truly releasing its debut album. From the fans in the U.S. who bought 600,000 copies of the electro-tinged single “Opposite of Adults” ?to the U.K. kids who…

The toweringly masculine Reserve (123 Chestnut St.), a top-tier steakhouse, had its grand opening on Saturday night. It’s an interesting idea, opening this caliber of meatery in this part of town. First, there’s the pesky job market and that (thankfully…