International House  3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Black Stallion (1979, U.S., 118 min.): Horsies! And death. And horsies! Sat., Sept. 27, 2 p.m., $5. Le Révélateur (1968, France, 67 min.): Experimental black-and-white silent with a new live score by…

Illustration: Tom Stiglich City Controller Alan Butkovitz put out a press release last week saying that, while going about his business as the city’s fiscal watchdog, he’d discovered a “VIP hotline call center,” a backdoor way for the politically connected…

Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova KTop  |  911 Race St., 267-909-9306, k-top911.com. We were already pretty tanked when we arrived at KTop’s futuristic, Tron-like upstairs lobby a few minutes before 2 a.m. As…

Jalopnik’s Doug DeMuro recently moved to Philadelphia. The automotive writer owns a Ferrari 360, and he often writes about it in posts for the Gawker car blog like “I Took My Ferrari 360 to a Drag Strip in Rural North…

Emily Guendelsberger After SEPTA announced last week that it was changing the name of Market East Station to Jefferson Station in a five-year, nearly $4 million deal with nearby Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the City Paper offices were abuzz for…

“Marijuana has been a hullaballo, bugaboo issue for years,” said Councilman Jim Kenney at a joint announcement with Mayor Michael Nutter this afternoon that they had come to an agreement on amendments to Bill 140377, which would decriminalize marijuana in the…

At a press conference this morning, it was announced that, as rumored, Market East Station would for at least the next five years be known as Jefferson Station, the result of a $3.9 million deal between SEPTA and Jefferson Hospital.…

I am surprised to find that my iPhone is able to give me directions to Cariadoc’s Path and Fletcher Road, an intersection that only exists two weeks out of the year. It’s like finding Brigadoon on your GPS. I’m on…

So tweets from the account for the Ubisoft action/adventure game Watch_Dogs suggest that Camden, N.J., will be the setting of the game’s sequel this fall: It would be one thing if this was a standard first-person shooter. But the Watch_Dogs…