It was obvious that 90% of the crowd was at The Trocadero the night of February 2 (yep, we are super late on this review) for one reason and one reason only: to see One Republic. The band, enjoying its recent success at the hands of The CW (their song "All We Are" was apparently played during a very pivotal moment during an episode of Gossip Girl) has such a big under-age following that The......

I checked out Toronto's own The Midway State on Thursday, Jan. 31 when they opened the kickoff of MIKA's American tour. I was...confused. I liked the band well enough, I suppose. I mean, I like Ben Folds and Snow Patrol and Coldplay...kind of, and The Midway State sounded like pretty much an amalgamation of all three, with the occasional smattering of Aqualung thrown in. In the entirety of their half-hour set, though, I found......

We weren't familiar with Jennifer O'Connor (MySpace) when we recently received a copy of her latest release, Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Stars. But with an album title like that, we assumed her music would turn out to be the worst kind of touchy-feely singer-songwriter crap. Luckily, we were entirely wrong. Yes, it is low-key pop from a singer/songwriter/guitarist. But it's really high quality low-key pop with fantastic vocals, clever......

Forgive the error in syntax for a moment, but we've been a grumpy critic lately. We've been seriously underwhelmed by the last couple concerts we've gone to. We really needed a great - not good, great - concert to get us out of this funk. So thank you thank you thank you to Eric Hutchinson and Matt Duke for giving us that show. As Editor Jill mentioned in her preview of the show, we first......

The times they are a changing. A quick sweep of the web now brings back incredible results. Check out these barnacles we found floating around: - We feel like you are less likely to be caught with a prostitute. Pulling a B&E on a prison seems extreme. Just pay for it already, screw jail time. - Of course this happened in Pennsylvania. We have some advice for you, pal. Keep drinking. What else are you......

Oh no! The city's Ritz theaters will likely have a new owner as soon as March 30th! Luckily, the buyer is Landmark Theatres, "the nation's premier chain devoted to indie and art films," and thus the types of movies shown at the Ritz are unlikely to change. So the only thing we don't like about this is that Mark Cuban is one of the guys behind Landmark. We just don't trust that guy. (Via......

This suburban Phillyist used to work in the city, and commuted daily into Center City via SEPTA from Paoli. Imagine our surprise one day when, blearily staring out the window as the suburban landscape rushed by, we saw a tiny cemetery and historical marker mere feet away from the train tracks. Not quite convinced that we'd hallucinated the stone fence-enclosed minuscule graveyard, we made it our mission over the next few weeks to figure out......

Over the Hedge is a computer-animated family film from a large Hollywood studio (in this case, DreamWorks), so you know pretty much what to expect: a bunch of anthropomorphized animals voiced by a bevy of celebrities, spouting amusing jokes laced with pop culture references, who go through a series of wacky adventures that splits them apart, but then ultimately brings them back together again, closer friends than ever, and everybody learns a valuable lesson about......

Why did no one want to stand up? Maybe it was because the show was in an auditorium. Maybe the audience was tired. Or maybe the Rutgers University Camden kids who got tickets for $10 had too much to drink back in their dorms. But the crowd did not live up to Ben Folds’ energy at his show last night at the Collingswood Scottish Rite. And he put on one hell of a concert......

Big props to Rutgers University Camden. They're bringing musical whiz kid Ben Folds to rock the suburb – literally. Ben's bringing his show to the Collingswood Scottish Rite Auditorium (accessible by PATCO and a bit of foot power for those of you in the city) at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night. Reports out of the Baltimore Ben Folds show say it's a must-see, especially if you're a fan. Tickets are $20 for those with......