JR’s Bar has always been a strange place. It’s kind of a DIY punk venue, but it’s a real bar (one of few in which you can still smoke) way down in Grays Ferry, isolated from most of the rest…
This Onion article about our very own Sen. Pat Toomey would be funnier if it were a little less true: HARRISBURG, PAWith both sides increasing their initial offers for the prized asset, multinational energy companies ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporation are…
I get migraines, and a few hours before a bad one hits, I start seeing small, flashing points of light in my peripheral vision. So, during dinner a couple weeks ago, when I caught a small, repeating flash out of the…
Everyone is so pissed off about beer gardens! The story so far: If you’ve wondered how the bunch of beer gardens around the city are allowed to operate while it’s pretty much impossible for anybody to get a liquor license, the Daily…
Hey, anybody sick of videos of Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion (seriously), the African Black-Footed Cat kittens born at the Philadelphia Zoo in April? I’m definitely not. It’s hard to tell from this video, but the black-footed cat is actually only about four…
Levi Buffum Levi Buffum, 32, has been constructing an enormous model of Center City Philadelphia out of Legos for months; you can follow his progress on the Facebook page Legodelphia. We chatted with him yesterday after photos of it popped…
So Urban Outfitters has yet again had to pull a product after protests from people who are part of that culture. This time, it’s Hindus. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal: Urban Outfitters has pulled its line of duvet covers that…
Tina Fey’s gonna be screening her classic movie Mean Girls (it just hit its 10th anniversary, we can call it classic now, right?) with a Q&A session afterward at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center on Saturday, August 16. From the…
South Philly gallery and art school the Fleisher Art Memorial just found a mystery painting of a kneeling nude figure in their ceiling. They have no idea who painted it, how long it’s been up there or why, and they’re…
