Full disclosure: I know a couple of people involved with ARTCY, aka Artsong Repertory Theater Company. But mentioning Saturday afternoon’s event, Sock Puppets and Art Songs, is not doing them a favor. It is doing you the readers a favor.…

Photo by Vertigogen via Flickr creative commons OK, here is perhaps the single most disturbing thing ever to be written on philly.com, from a Daily News article headlined Delco infant seriously injured in ferret attack: Around 3:30 p.m., three ferrets escaped…

Emily semi-recently purchased and has been refurbishing a house, and is obsessed with the amazing things she can find for very cheap on Craigslist: Large, formal oil paintings of small dogs! Six-foot-long taxidermy mahi-mahi! Scale replicas of the Nike of…

At 6 p.m. Friday evening, a couple hundred people gathered in LOVE Park to hold candles and signs reading “Je Suis Charlie,” in solidarity with France and the 12 people killed this Wednesday at the Paris offices of satire magazine…

As you may have heard, last night’s Eagles game was the site of a die-in protest. Protesters blocked traffic leaving the stadium after the Eagles lost to the Seahawks by lying down in the street en masse for 4.5 minutes, a…

Hannibal Buress’ “Bill Cosby is a rapist” bit is now famous, after a clip of it from a show at the Trocadero last month started the ball rolling on what appears to be turning into the end of Cosby’s career.…

If you’re not doing anything tonight, go check out tonight’s screening of High School, Frederick Wiseman’s fly-on-the-wall documentary of a year at Northeast High in 1968. The hugely prolific documentarian will give a talk after the screening as part of…

Maria Pouchnikova The pro-life group Created Equal set up the display at Independence Mall. Last Friday, a bunch of fresh-faced activists from Columbus, Ohio, set up large orange warning signs around Independence Mall — WARNING: ABORTION VICTIM PHOTOS AHEAD. This…

Just a mention in case you forgot — the all-South Street edition of the 215 Festival starts tonight, and goes through Sunday. All the Facebook events here!