Forgive "boss," but I've been listening to a lot of James Brown so that has somehow crept back into my vernacular. Today is one of those days when, if you have a crappy commute like this Phillyist, you may be working from home. Which means that in between checking e-mails and working on files, you can fit in a little "you" time. Don't take this gift of a day and waste it with cleaning or......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Jammin’: Vince Lardear and His Jam at Chris’ Jazz Café (1421 Sansom), 9PM. $2 Kill Pride: The Kill Pride, Don’t Ask, Joe Trainor Trio, Brackets & Arrows, and Sensory Whore at North Star Bar (27th and Poplar), 9PM. $5 There’s That Shack Again: Wissahickon Chicken Shack, King Cotton Rounders, Lach, and Marc Silver at the Fire (412 W. Girard), 9PM. $7 Mary Frank: Poetry reading with Mary Frank......

For our parents, it was the assassination of JFK. Ask any of them and they can remember exactly what they were doing at the time they found out JFK had been killed. I never understood that until September 11, 2001. Our generation can remember it like it was yesterday. For us, that moment, frozen in time, is and will always be 9/11. Back then I was in community journalism at a small paper in Bristol,......

Yeah, yeah. This video is decidedly New York. But this video was featured in a recent Ask Yahoo! post, and we'd forgotten how cool (and corny!) it was, and figured it bore repeating... Statue of Liberty - Watch more amazing videos here......

This suburban Phillyist was felled by the twin terrors of a flooded basement and strep throat (no, really. We're loving March so far) Friday night, and couldn't venture into the city to catch Local Boy Making Good Matt Duke's show at the World Café Live. Fortunately for us, Sister of Phillyist is both a Drexel student and a total Matt Duke fangirl, so she agreed to cover the show for us. What follows is her......

Restaurant Week started last night. That's really awesome for you and me, the average diners who maybe can't afford to eat at many of these restaurants. It's less awesome for the servers who are really going to be getting stiffed on tips. You see, when you're getting a super deal at a restaurant, you should still tip approximately in accordance with what your meal is worth, not what you paid. So if you happen to......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

Ask the Dust - This one opened in limited release a week ago, but is finally coming to Philly today. In it, Colin Farrell comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to write the great American novel, only to run into a beautiful Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) while spending his last nickel on coffee in a diner. Things get off to a shaky start for them, but eventually, as you might expect, they end up together. Co-starring......

Haven't we had enough of Donald Trump's crazy combover and cheesy gold-bedecked everything? Do we really need the Trump Tower Philadelphia? Depending on how far into South Philly the "high-rise luxury condominium" on the Delaware is built, we forsee sparkly textured ceilings and lots of black lacquer furniture and marbled glass. That's real class.Did Pennsylvania's Junior Senator actually say that putting a Rick Santorum sticker on your car is akin to serving your country in......

This week, Return to Sender and Phillial team up to give the men of Philadelphia the hand they so desperately need. Dear men of Philadelphia: So Return to Sender just tore you a new one, and you're probably pissed at us. But like our overbearing father told us, "We do it because we love." Admit it, Philly fellas. You don't want to be That Guy that the cute chicks subtly point at, whisper about, and......

In this week's Phillial, Phillyist is in the navy. And there's roleplaying! Today's question comes from a Philadelphia-area student: Hi Phillyist! I'm an incoming Philadelphia freshman with a question. Last night I had an amazing hookup with this really sweet guy I just met. He's in the Navy ROTC, and I love a guy in uniform, so we bonded over that. We even threw some sailor roleplaying into the hookup! Now, it's the morning after,......

In this week’s Phillial, we move on from glass cocks to glass houses - or Home Depot, that is. We know there’s a catchy transition in there somewhere. Please don’t throw stones at us. Or dildos. Phillyist reader Kim asks: “Can you provide tips on how to walk into a hardware store and pervert everything there? Example: I hear my spreader bars could've been made with a wood bar or two and some loopy things......

After one Phillyist staffer’s hiatus in Texas (and a fruitless hunt for the real Butterscotch Stallion, although we learned that a certain Mr. Delay is a real power bottom) we're back to answer your Love and Sex questions. This week’s query comes from a reader fed up with the South Street sex toy scene: I want to acquire another dildo (or two). a) Where in the Philly area has the largest selection? Are my choices......

Phillyist is proud to present its first contest. One winner will receive two tickets to tomorrow's TONY HAWK'S BOOM BOOM HUCK JAM event, starting at 7 pm at the Wachovia Center. The show features Tony Hawk, the world's most popular skateboarder. The show also has Huck Jam veterans like Andy Macdonald, Kevin Staab, Lincoln Ueda and Sergie Ventura. These tickets will go to the first person to write-in with a question for our new Ask......

We don't like Hoobastank, but we know the song: "I'm not a perfect person." The song is wrong, though. When we sing it at drunk staff meetings, we change it to: "You're not a perfect person." And you're not. But that's OK. We're here to help. Our Love and Sex expert (we'd call her our Love and Sexpert, but then we'd lose her respect), Jessica Haralson, wants to help. Why? Well, the reason is you.......