Even as a heterosexual woman, this Phillyist will be the first to admit that there are few things more beautiful than the female body. And the less covering it, the better. Which is why we at Phillyist are pleased to be the first media outlet in Philadelphia to tell you that if you're out and about in Center City (specifically, near City Hall and the Clothespin) tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., you'll get......

On Friday we previewed Catwalk Tragedy, and we made the trip to the New Alhambra Arena on Saturday night for a few photos. Model: Lauren WK (borderline NSFW) Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com.......

The area's best alt models will stalk the runway on Saturday night at New Alhambra Arena in a twisted anti-pageant showdown. Catwalk Tragedy 4 promises to turn up the heat with stunning models, punk fashions and hot beats. Round one has the gals strutting their stuff in Sourpuss fashions; round two is a Delicious Corsets show. Round three promises to be naughty. We're not exactly sure what that means but we're anxious to find......

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! Twelve months and ten epochal collapses later, we're nearing 2008 and a fresh calendar year for career (or structural) decimation. Let's count 'em down from 10: 10. Pete Doherty (again) 2007 hasn’t been......

Performances: Debbie Does Dallas - The Musical (To the Wall Productions) (no future performances); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Marathon Theater Collective) (no future performances); The Sustainability Project (Figments, Inc.) (no future performances) So Live Arts/Fringe has now come and gone. To be honest, I was kind of relieved that this was the final weekend and that there were only three shows to be seen. Last weekend didn't go so well for me.......

So you're a fashion student, and you're taking a class about designing clothes for children. If there aren't a lot of Doogie Housers hanging around campus, you'll need to find some models elsewhere. The Drexel Fashion Department did just that, partnering with Charles R. Drew School, a UCity elementary school. An exhibit of the results, Project Imagine, opens Thursday night at Nexus, and runs through July 23rd. The exhibit features illustrations by the fashion students,......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. D-Mac over at Philadelphia Will Do just emailed us to let us know about this article in today's Inquirer. We think that good "roll" models don't just eat right and......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Here's a nice list for you: 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will. (Via) And now, a questionable quote (for various reasons) from Overheard in Philly. Superman versus YOUR FACE!! Look out, he knows the secret code! Married to the Sea knows how seriously we take fashion here in Philly. Jason Statham......

...Drastic Measures: Or, she could have just stayed in rehab. (Via The Superficial.) ...Role Models: Clearly, Britney has taken a cue from Lindsay. (Via What Would Tyler Durden Do?) ...Homophobia: We mentioned this in this week's Across the Ist-A-Verse, but it bears repeating that Tim Hardaway is a homophobe. That being said, George Takei (!!) would still do him. (Original story via Chicagoist. George Takei video, embedded above, via Horny Oyster.) ...Babies! Two more. Yay!......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Billboard Music Awards (Mon; 8PM-10PM; Fox) - The 17th annual awards show comes at you live from Las Vegas with performances by Janet Jackson, Fergie, the Killers, Gwen Stefani, Ludacris, the Fray, and Mary J. Blige. Plenty of other stars of the music world will act as presenters including, unfortunately, Flavor Flav. (Link) Monday Night Football: Panthers at Eagles (Mon; 8:30PM-11:30PM; ESPN & ABC [WPVI]) - These......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. We've got two awesome new Guitar Hero controllers for you to consider: the official Red Octane wireless guitar controller, and the 10 fret button Flying-V controller from Ant Commandos, in both wired and wireless models. Um, HAWT. Wondering what the extra 5 fret buttons are for? For showing off, duh! Cinematical celebrates Halloween with the Seven Worst Horror......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Mr. Pringles gives a press conference, wherein he attempts to explain some of his recent shameful behavior. Heh. (Via) Check out an episode of "Crusader Rabbit," one of the first, if not the first, TV cartoon show. The animation is pretty primitive, the jokes are rather corny, and the whole plotline of wanting to destroy the entire state of Texas is......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Apparently Final Fantasy XII has leaked out all over the internet. It certainly wouldn't be legal or nice to go download a copy right now... Speaking of final fantasies...it's the 2007 12-month Nerdcore calendar (NSFW), featuring naked pictures of gamer girls - or at least, cute girls with gaming implements somewhere near their bodies. The perfect decoration for a dorm room......

FRIDAY Starkweather: The "uncompromisingly brutal Philadelphia Tech-Metal" of Starkweather at The Khyber (56 S. 2nd) , with Noosebomb, Otesanek & March into the Sea at 9PM. $8. (21+) Curator's Choice: The Secret Cinema dives into their vaults to present an evening of films they haven't shown before...or haven't shown in a very long time. This look into the forgotten realms of film begins at 8PM at The Moore College of Art and Design and......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Little People is a cool photo blog/art project. Dude takes photos of tiny hand-painted models posed in interesting spots around London. We like it! Now somebody should start a Philly version. (Via) Speaking of blogs full of fun images, here's a blog of optical illusions. (Via) A list, and this one's pretty cool: the 20 Best Zombie Films of All Time,......

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,......

Last night when Phillyist was looking up some baseball stats, we found this cool link to a database of major league baseball uniforms. The database allows you to search for the uniforms of desired teams by league, city, and range of years, and then displays the home and road uniforms of the team for each year in the range. Until 1995, each uniform is displayed on this unaffected cutout-type model: faceless and flat with off-white......

Our new, weekly look into the odd, strange and bizarre at one .org. Do those free pets really go to good homes or become snake food? Discuss here. A Razor for fixing my sink? And, no, I’m not talking the disposable kind. Looks like we’ve got another luxury lifestyle magazine in town. But I have to pose the question: If this bunch is all about the better things in life, why is their “about......

...Divorce: David Hasselhoff's estranged wife, Pamela Bach, filed for a restraining order against the former Baywatch star, following allegations of domestic violence. The presiding judge did not issue the order, but strongly reccommended the two stay apart. We have no real opinion on this matter, since the only thing we think of when we hear Hasselhoff's name is this video. (Via The Associated Press.) ...Illegal Activity Kept Quiet With Hush Money: Tara Reid is on......

You may or may not have heard that The Philadelphia Free Library is working with architect Moshe Safdie to renovate and expand the Beaux Arts building. (And if you hadn't heard it before, you've heard it now.) If you're curious about the plans (or just dig architecture), stop by the The Gershman Y (Broad and Pine Streets) between December 4th & January 29th, where they'll be exhibiting "Safdie’s models, photographs, renderings, and videos" so you......

by Neil McGarry Folk-singer and Philadelphia resident Deirdre Flint has made a career out of funny laments about bridesmaid dresses, AWOL boob fairies, and disappointing past lives, and has performed to audiences all over the United States. Recently, she joined the musical emsemble Four Bitchin’ Babes, founded fifteen years ago by Christine Lavin. Phillyist caught up with Deirdre at a South Street coffee shop to learn more about this schoolteacher-turned-folk artist. You’re a teacher by......

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. What constantly surprises Phillyist is how aggressively, er, regional Philadelphia magazine seems to be. Phillyist spent some......

Have you ever wondered what happened to the tumor that was removed from President Grover Cleveland’s face during that secret surgery back in 1893? Here at Phillyist we can’t go more than a few days without someone agitatedly voicing their conspiratorial concerns with the lengths that the government has taken to conceal GC’s mystery growth. Was it the CIA? Did aliens snatch it? Chappaquiddick, was it Chappaquiddick? It could have been Chappaquiddick. Even Robert Stack......

Enjoy PBS's Colonial Life, but wish it wasn't so...educational? Have a hard time watching people try to live in another era, when those people aren't models, and that era was oh-so-long ago? MTV may have the solution for you: The 70s House premiered tonight at 10:30. But wait, you might be saying, why did MTV pick this random decade, anyway? Two answers immediately come to mind: (1) To make use of the super-tight clothing, and......