Results tagged “clubs”

If you still aren't bored of stories about Jocelyn S. Kirsch and Edward K. Anderton, then by all means, read on. Meanwhile, other rather more dangerous criminals are still on the loose. Police still have little to go on in the brutal November 25th murder of John Bartram High School sophomore Antonio Q. Clarke, who was last seen alive trying to catch a trolley in Southwest Philadelphia. Call police at 215-686-3334 or -3335 with...

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For we were young and sure to have our way

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities.

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Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.

Philly's a great town for live music. We get almost all of the big national tours. We have several large concert-friendly venues when other cities are lucky to even have one. And there are a ton of smaller bars and clubs where smaller and local acts have the opportunity to play. These can range from the upstairs at Fergie's Pub to significantly larger standing-room venues like the TLA or the Electric Factory. And it's these standing-room venues, small or large, that I'd like to talk about today.

Dear men of my new neighborhood:

Okay, so you might be wondering at this point why we keep writing about the World Cup. We are well aware that the Philadelphia sports landscape rarely extends beyond the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and 76ers unless something really weird happens (like St. Joe's going undefeated in basketball in a regular season).

After yesterday's uber-long Elite -ist, we're back with something a little more manageable. And we're going to start doing things differently. Instead of trying to figure out what's going on with our sister sites as it's happening, we've decided to go all time-delay and tell you what went down the previous day. Not only is it easier for us, it keeps us from getting confused about what's fair game, posting-wise. The time difference between here and Shanghai was really getting confusing!

- From the Philly LiveJournal Community, This is the City of Brotherly Love, we learn about two events taking place this very weekend: a straight-edge, vegan-friendly Scavenger Hunt and the local manifestation of the 2006 Global Cannibis March.

A few days ago, while we were compiling Elite -ist, we noticed an error. See if you can spot it too. (Hint -- it's at the very top of the page and has something to do with the alphabet.) But first, check out what's going on with our sister sites!

Hello out there, smokers – this one’s for you!

Sorry to start things on a down note today, but we thought LAist's post needed to lead. More entertaining posts from other -ists follow. We promise!

Phillyist has already told you how we feel about using cell phones on public transit. But there are other times when cell phone usage is, if not completely inappropriate, utterly irritating. What follows here is a partial list of bad times and places to use your cell phones, as well as suggestions to how to handle calls if/when they’re made. It’s not a full list, by any means – but trying to do that, this column would never get finished!

The Penn and Drexel Cycling Clubs are co-hosting The Arkema Group Schuylkill Challenge Bicycle Race in Fairmount Park this weekend. (Note that the title of that last page we linked to predicts the winner as Penn - we wonder if the folks at Drexel, not to mention the other schools, have noticed that yet.) It's actually a series of bike races and time trials taking place in various places and at various times on Saturday and Sunday; for more details, check out the link above, or download the PDF of the flyer here (beware - almost 3MB). You can register here.

We know, we know. It seems the only time Phillial rears its enviously sexy head is to censure wild and wacky local sex politics. Our editor has already told us to go sit spreadeagle in a corner. We think he’s playing “Bad Cop” in this dungeon.

If you’re a swinger, you’ve heard of it by now. If you’re not, you’re probably wondering what happened to Señor Rattler’s Cantina.

Well, we were going to tell you about Dracula's Ball, the regular Goth event that happens to occur on Hallowe'en every year (what a coincidence!), but then we had a bright idea: Why do all the work when we can have someone else tell you all about it? So we traded some emails with promoter Patrick Rodgers of Dancing Ferret, and he graciously agreed to answer some spoooooky questions.

The Cranky Cocktail knows it's been a while since he's had a chance to impart to you some of his choice wisdom. He apologizes. But to make it up to you, here's a picture of a hot model. Specifically, it's International Fetish Model Kiwi, a Philadelphia local -- check her out in the latest issue of Passional, if you haven't seen it already.

The band emerged onto a darkened stage, to a background of computer-provided crickets and wind. From the moment they launched into "A Forest," Nouvelle Vague had the audience. Stripped down to drums, guitar, computer and a pair of singers, the band seemed tiny on the imposingly huge and high stage of the World Café Live. The space seemed divorced entirely from the smoky jostle of the punk clubs and the intimacy of the jazz lounges that were natural habitats of the band’s twin musical inspirations. But even in the cavernous enormity of the venue, the band gave a show impossible to ignore.

To the male patrons (and aren’t they all?) of local strip clubs:

It should come as no surprise that Phillyist is aggressively local. And why not? There’s good livin’ in Philadelphia - cheap real estate (compared to other Eastern cities, anyway), restaurants and culture that hold their own at the very least, and teams in every major sport that, even if they’re not always good, are always fun to follow.

The Jersey shore has been the summer hotspot for Philadelphians for decades. Like many other Philly residents, Phillyist's summers were spent in Sea Isle City since before we could utter any comprehensible words. Burying our mom in the sand, our brother throwing jellyfish at us (the memory haunts us to this day), fishing on the jetties with our Dad, making drip castles with new friends on the beach; the memories are endless.