Have a nominee for Asshole of the Week? Send it to us! One of the most fun things about the quadrennial circuses that are the Democratic and Republican National Conventions is the protesters. They're frequently a rich source of both important social discourse and absolute hilarity. Pick a subject, any subject, and somewhere in America—especially at convention time—someone is protesting it. Someone out there is protesting kittens as you read this. We're all for protesters,......

Blogging's not too bad either: G.W. Miller explains why you want to get into journalism. Remember Baker Bowl or Connie Mack Stadium? We didn't either, but this still makes us nostalgic. Yeah, we're definitely losers; not only are we not journalists, we're not raking in the big green ones like Troy Wragg. Knew we should have gone to Temple… Getting back a stolen bike? Yeah, that can happen. Apparently. If you need to know what’s......

It's so nice out that we decided to find you three things to do indoors. You know, so you wouldn't get too used the warm weather. In case it decides to get down to 40 fu#%ing degrees again. We hate Weather's attitude. It acts as if it owes us nothing. As if it were some force of nature, free to do as it pleases without input or intervention from humanity. Oh wait, we warmed......

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings almost burned down the TLA Friday night with one of the hottest shows I've seen there all year. The sold-out crowd was hyped. Fresh off of a fantastic set by openers The Budos Band, the audience was abuzz with anticipation. The Dap Kings, who know how to work a crowd, came out and warmed up the audience without vocals before introducing Jones. When she came on stage in her all......

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,......

Thomas FitzSimmons High School in North Philadelphia will graduate their first class of all boys this Thursday. The school went all-boys two years ago, and is the only all-boys public school in the state. Meanwhile, the Ada H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown might be voted closed on June 20th by the School Reform Commission, due to declining enrollment and a $38 million repair estimate. But parents and teachers are fighting to keep the......

SEPTA's asking city zoning officials if they can wrap two stories of their office building at 1234 Market Street with a gigantic advertisement. Neighborhood leaders are pissed, but SEPTA says they need the money. Last night the second annual Greater Philadelphia Cappie Awards were held at Upper Darby High School Performing Arts Center. "The Critics and Awards Program or 'Cappies' [was] founded eight years ago in Washington, D.C., to recognize high school theater and journalism......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. David Caruso is actually the reason why we can't watch the show "CSI: Miami." We think he overacts ridiculously. That being said, we still rather enjoy this YouTube video collecting, if not all, then many of the one-liners with which he tends to open the show. (Via) List time: Ten Maxims Every FPS Should Follow. We've essentially given up on the genre, so......

We here at Phillyist love the holiday season as much as the next person. It always brings fond memories of great home cooked food, warm fireplaces and those wonderful family get-togethers where something always gets broken, someone always falls asleep really early, and someone else takes WAY too many pictures (Mom...). And while those things are what family and celebration are all about, this article delves into the more sordid and shady world of government......

Someone should tell the news directors at ABC 6 and NBC 10 that the possibility of a thug basketballer being traded is not the story you should lead your newscast with, as they did Friday at 11 p.m. It isn’t like there weren't more important stories, like the E. coli outbreak or the congressional report on the Mark Foley scandal. About the only thing this did was make CBS 3’s story about the cold......

What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend. Lower City (Cidade Baixa) - Two best friends meet a beautiful stripper/prostitute and a complex romantic triangle forms as all three try to find a way to survive on the gritty streets of Salvador de Bahia's "lower city." Sergio Machado's directorial debut, this one's supposed to be intense and sensual. Could be fun! Trailer Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Most Likely to Rule: Scoop -......

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. Club Kama Sutra, the consensual-sex club for adventurous adults and their partners (and, to outsiders, ostensibly the aforementioned poorly named Mexican restaurant), was shut down two weeks ago by the Department of Licenses and Inspections after a surprise midnight raid that yielded a few minor “business code” violations. According to Kama Sutra’s......

Waiting to hear award show results? They might not be the Oscars, but the Barrymore Awards, Philadelphia theatre’s answer to the Tonys, were announced last Monday. Both Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Arden did remarkably well this year, each scooping an Outstanding Production award. PTC won Outstanding Production of a Play for their touching rendition of Take Me Out, the Broadway smash about a gay baseball player’s coming out (and did we mention everyone gets......

Yeah, yeah - we hear you. You've bombarded us with e-mails about Terrell Owens and wondered why we haven't posted about him. And we'll tell you why: we're kind of pissed. Quite often, we'll hold our staff meetings outside with various exercise equipment. Heck, we'll even haul out the big screen TV and the tae-bo tapes. But no one ever covers us. Not even Blinq. And that hurts. So yeah, we're a bit jealous. Sure,......

The Philadelphia Inquirer has been around for a while, but don’t take our word for it, just check out their coverage of the Civil War. That’s right, they were around all the way back when those dumb-asses thought it was a good idea to stand 30 feet apart and drill each other in the face with crude lead bullets. Luckily for history buffs (and the infantry), technology and military stratagems have come a long way......