The good news for the Drexel men (12-19, 5-13) is that, unlike last year, they won't be sitting on the edges of their seats waiting to see if they get an invitation to the Big Dance. The Dragons ended their regular season with a Senior Night win over James Madison before losing on the road at Hofstra. With the regular season over, it's CAA tournament time, and Drexel will open with a matchup against Delaware.......

Despite their name, NYC four-piece Vampire Weekend (MySpace) is not a shoe-gazing, emo goth band. In fact, their self-titled debut LP, just released at the end of last month, is perhaps best described as "sunny" - the very antithesis of a vampire's idea of a good weekend. This band, beloved of many blogs (including us), performs bouncy, funny, clever, retro indie/punk/pop/New Wave songs about love. Their music is so fun it feels like there has......

The Drexel Lady Dragons (11-9, 6-3) split their games this week, losing at Northeastern before coming away with a solid road win at Hofstra. In both games, the Dragons got a big contribution from sophomore forward Gabriela Marginean, who was named Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week for her efforts. The men (9-14, 2-9) went 0-2 (again) this week, dropping games to Georgia State and Northeastern. The two losses brings the Dragons' losing streak......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The DGA has reached a tentative three-year deal with the AMPTP; the hope is that the WGA will soon follow suit. "Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download." This is good news for grandmas who only use the internet to forward cute emails to......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Nintendo has released its lineup of DS and Wii releases for the first half of 2008. WiiWare will also be launching in that time period, supposedly. And Myst will be coming to your DS in March. Steve Jobs' 90-minute keynote at MacWorld was just too long, which is why this version of the keynote, edited down to just 60 seconds (via), is so......

Rev. Charles Newman, the disgraced former Archbishop Ryan High School president accused of stealing $900,000 from the school and his religious order, had his preliminary hearing, scheduled for New Year's Eve, postponed until March. Meanwhile, an alumni group expressed their complete confidence in the administration of the school. A man outside at a New Year's party in East Germantown, confronted by police for firing his gun into the air, turned the gun on the officers,......

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! I'm a music guy. I listen to a ton of music, and because of Phillyist, I've been able to hear a lot of great stuff I never would have heard otherwise. But, no......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The Movie Blog has a pic from the new Death Race movie, and it's actually pretty cool. Some details on the casting and plot of Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans, in case you want them for some reason. According to Variety, the writers' strike has reached an interesting milestone: it's now cost writers more money than they were hoping......

The Phillies have signed free-agent Brett Favre…er, 33-year-old outfielder Geoff Jenkins (see the resemblance?) and 30-year-old starter/reliever Chad Durbin, continuing a rather dulling off-season for the Fightins. Is there any reason to get excited about these two players? Um, maybe…if the Phillies front office knows something we don’t. But that’s never really the case with these middle-of-the-pack guys. Do you still remember Rod Barajas? I didn’t. I had to look him up. Kyle Lohse?......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Are you a meanderthal? Not sure? Check the urban dictionary, and beware! Apparently the word could soon be heading to the real dictionary. (Via Jill) Uh oh - looks like the upper ups at Warner Bros. demanded some last minute changes to the ending of I Am Legend. That's rarely good news... Supposedly The Movie Blog got their hands on some......

Nutter's got an ad on TV again, this one designed to reintroduce himself to voters, and to hopefully increase what is threatening to be a very low voter turnout. Meanwhile, Delaware County Republicans have their own election problems, which include W., declining party registration, and the real chance that a Democrat might win a council seat for the first time in nearly 30 years. It's Fumo time! The good news for Fumo: his corruption trial......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Blender claims to have put together a list of the 40 Worst Lyricists in Rock, but they've done a pretty awful job. We'll admit that everybody on this list has written very bad lyrics at one time or another, but people like Paul McCartney, Billy Corgan, Jim Morrison, and the members of Genesis have also written great big piles of really......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You might have heard about a little game called Halo 3 getting released late last night/early this morning. Game|Life has the details on the midnight release party at a Best Buy in Manhattan, while Joystiq covers a non-launch in Boston and an actual, celebrity-infested launch in LA. Beware, however! Rumor is that the limited edition packaging for the......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. You may vaguely remember from long ago the idea for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off show called Ripper that was meant to follow the adventures of Anthony Stewart Head's character in England, along with a whole cast of new characters. Well, good news! It sounds like it's actually going to happen now, with Joss Whedon in the captain's chair, and shooting beginning......

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked......

Boy, did I wake up to good news this morning!? As it states on page D2 of today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Brian Tierney’s publication has stripped Stephen A. Smith of his column-writing duties, effective immediately. They have stated that they want him to return to reporting, which, since he spends most of his time in cities not named Philadelphia, is probably code for “Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?” Now I don’t want to rush to......

Guilt By Association CD Giveaway
8/20/07-8/24/07...

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Movie Poop Shoot reveals to us that the worst live action comic book adaptation ever already happened back in 1979, so we have nothing to worry about from future adaptations. This worst of all possible adaptations took the form of an extremely short-lived TV show (only two episodes!) on NBC called Legends of the Superheroes, which was apparently an attempt to......

Eastern Conference Champions Giveaway
7/13/07-7/18/07...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Fact: a news article that includes the real, serious quote "We are fed up with these drunk rats" is a good news article. (Via Sarah) Remember when we posted way back about the fact that 7-Eleven was going to turn some of its stores into honest to God Kwik-E-Marts as part of a Simpsons Movie promotion? Well, it's......

Philadelphia Theatre Company recently received a $3,000,000 grant from the City of Philadelphia's Cultural Corridors Fund, and are now 2/3 of the way to the $30,000,000 they need for their new home on the Avenue of the Arts: the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Four Democratic candidates for president visited our city yesterday, courting the National Education Association, who are holding their national representative assembly here at the moment, and the Association of Community Organizations for......

If you try to search Google for Tacconelli's Pizzeria you may, depending on your choice of keywords, find either the original store in Philadelphia or the splinter faction in New Jersey. Perhaps taking a cue from the myriad of splinter cheese steak factions found in Philadelphia, there are two Taconelli’s. Don’t get fooled and schlep out to Burlington County, but instead go to the original in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. The original......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. There's a very cool Ryan Adams contest running right now. Create the ultimate iMix of Ryan Adams songs, based around a theme of your choosing, then submit it here. The grand prize winner will get an iPod Nano, Adams' album Easy Tiger in digital format, and his/her iMix will be included in the digital booklet. Joystiq has a ton of videos featuring in-game,......

Restaurateur Susanna Foo has completed her six-month probation and 50-plus hours of community service, which she received for supposedly striking an officer of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, something she still claims she didn't do. About 1:30AM yesterday morning a woman died when she crashed her car into the back of a stationary PennDot dump truck in a construction zone on northbound I-95 near the Chichester Avenue exit. Northbound traffic was detoured until the lanes were......

Apparently a lot of cops, already unhappy with Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson's selection of Kimberly Byrd as his chief of staff, are now even more pissed that he's changed her title to executive officer of the department, even though he insists it's not a promotion, and will involve no increase in pay, just an increase in duties. Johnson has been getting a lot of flak lately, for this and other decisions, on Domelights.com, an......

Good news for those of you planning on heading down the shore this summer: the beaches are in excellent shape. Our fair neighboring state of NJ is getting close to banning sex offenders from using the internet. Woah. We're not sure how to feel about that. John Carter (the one who used to run the Independence Seaport Museum, not the one who went to Mars) has been charged with stealing more than $1 million......

The Photo Atlas/The Bravery
5/21/07-5/25/07...

The good news: we're moving to a new, much better server system on our back-end! Sounds hot, doesn't it? The bad news: you may see some errors, some outdated content, and you may have trouble commenting now through Monday. Sorry! But once everything's in place, the site shouldn't just be back to normal - it should be better than normal!......

High up on my list of unforgivable sins? Poorly-attended performances of great plays and bands. (I think that may be because I want the rest of the world to have my taste in the arts realm. Maybe I'd actually turn the radio on once in a while...) Unfortunately, Gran Bel Fisher's show at the World Cafe Live last night didn't break any attendance records—and his opening act, Lelia Broussard, was performing to an almost-empty house.......