The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Some big awards and award nominations came out yesterday and this morning. We've got the Golden Tomatoes (via Jill) from Rotten Tomatoes, celebrating the highest rated films of 2007, the Razzie nominations, honoring the worst movies of 2007, and finally, some little dinky awards called the Oscars. Meanwhile, video games, not to be left out, are getting yet......

You gotta wonder about Penn students (and alums too, as it turns out): they shoot up terrorists, steal panties, and now apparently they adopt other people’s identities and swindle them out of loads of cash. To be fair though, Drexel does share some part of the latter, seeing as one of the accused is still a student there. You all know what we’re talking about right? Because it’s in the friggin international news! So Philly......

Even if we always think of RuPaul when we hear his name. (By the way, half-naked ladies are a good way to get Phillyist to vote for your candidate-- but depending on where you work this might not be safe for five seconds toward the end.)......

...Great Parenting: Raise your hand if this one surprises you. (Via The Superficial.) ...Good Ideas: After seeing the above link, this obviously makes a lot of sense. (Via People.com.) ...Ummm... There are no words. Just click. (Via What Would Tyler Durden Do?) ...Naked: We like meat, but this is still hot. (Via E! Online.) ...No Fair! Ummm... We've known sea urchins who were more deserving of their own television shows. (Via TV Blend.) ...Fatwah: That's......

Remember earlier this year when Center City criminal defense lawyer Larry Charles was found naked with a partially dressed 14-year-old girl at the Criminal Justice Center? How could you forget, right? Well, his trial begins today at 9AM in Common Pleas Court. University of Pennsylvania sophomore "Anne Ryan, 19, was hospitalized Saturday afternoon in critical condition, and died early yesterday morning" of meningococcal meningitis. Penn has therefore issued a health alert for those who were......

Sometimes, it's hard to resist the hate. You may not be having an especially bad day – you may in fact be in a good mood. But sometimes the snark comes so naturally that you have to marinate in it. Like it's Lawry's. Today is one of those days for two Phillyists who found themselves in an e-mail conversation about Tori Amos, lactating, and people we'd like to have killed. This may be in poor......

Not that we don't love Old City (we do), but we figured this week, we should focus on some of the First Friday goings-on that aren't part of the typical First Friday scene. Here are a few places we might be checking out tonight – places where the crowds might even be smaller. (That means more wine for us!) First up will be the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, over in Rittenhouse, as they celebrate......

The Daily News tells the painfully tragic story of a boy in the Juniata section who was shot and killed Saturday night for a dirt bike that he'd just received for his 16th birthday. The Inquirer reports on yesterday's celebration of Haitian Unity Day on the 700 block of Arch Street, and goes on to talk about the general struggles of Philadelphia's Haitian community. Philly's own Naked Chocolate Café was just ranked by USA......

I am not a big person. As such, I can't usually eat a full restaurant-sized portion, and nearly every meal that I eat out will actually end up as two. That's why the Unemployment Diet worked so well for me. I just made a conscious decision not to force myself to finish my meals out, and voila! My food budget was cut in half, and all I had to do was be willing to......

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

"I feel naked," our friend leaned over and whispered. We nodded our head. "Exposed, but in a good way," we replied, in awe of the man who was causing this feeling. It was the third song in and Damien Rice was alone on the stage, bathed in red light, with only his voice and his guitar. He sang, "It's not that we're scared/It's just that it's delicate," with such candor that the vulnerability in his......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Oh, no, Nintendo Power could be going away for good! Sure, it wasn't a great magazine, but we grew up with it, and it helped us beat Metroid fast enough so we could see Samus almost naked, and for that, we salute it. In a related story, a panel at the Nordic Game Conference concluded that online game reporting is killing......

We'll be the first to admit that we're a little addicted to watching the Food Network. It's not that we have it on all the time. It's just that once it's on, hours and hours will go by before we can even think about turning the television off. (It's probably more like televised pot, than televised crack, in that regard.) Hell, we even kind of like Rachel Ray. (Sure, she can be annoyingly chipper, and......

Films: Zoo, VHS - Kahloucha, Viva Future Screenings: Zoo: No future screenings scheduled VHS - Kahloucha: No future screenings scheduled Viva: No future screenings scheduled I was overly-ambitious this weekend, and eventually traded sleep (and a glass or two of vino) for films. Did I miss out on some stellar movies? Probably. Do I regret it? No: sometimes, it's nice to not be sitting alone in a darkened room. Zoo I'm not actually entirely sure......

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed. For LAist, strong winds attacked LA on the same day the Feds raided the Crips. Not to fear, though: the Japanese version......

Way back when, I covered gym equipment use etiquette in a "Return to Sender" column (this was long before the advent of Monday Manners). But the equipment floor isn't the only place to be concerned about your comportment at the gym. Au contraire. You also have to mind your manners in the locker room. Nudity is a tricky issue. Some people are simply more comfortable with it than others. But, comfort or not, it's pretty......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Puccini for Beginners - The concept: an operatic screwball romantic comedy. A New York writer and opera addict (Elizabeth Reaser) gets dumped by her lesbian lover because she can't commit, and ends up starting secret relationships with two other people - a philosophy professor named Phillip and a girl who used to be straight named Grace (Gretchen Mol). Little does she know that Phillip and Grace......

Since winter has finally decided to grace Philadelphia with its presence, let's be real: You're going to be cold if you head outside no matter what you're wearing. With that in mind, you might as well dig out your best nearly-naked ensemble and head over to the Mandell Theater to party with a "Sweet Transvestite." For their production of The Rocky Horror Show, the Drexel Players will have midnight shows tonight and next Friday. At......

...Unavailability: Cheer up, ladies. There are still other fish in the sea! (Via MSNBC.) ...Science: Because clearly a baby's paternity can be determined through her mother's DNA. (Via Playfuls.) ...Addiction: It's Robbie Williams' (remember him?) turn to go to rehab. (Via Yahoo!) ...Weird: We know about the cure because of that episode of Friends, but it's certainly not red carpet behavior. (Via Just Jared.) ...Modesty: Britney Spears has got it in spades. (Via Egotastic!) ...Oops:......

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Ah, Valentine's Day: refuge of the uninspired lover and bane of the singleton's year. Fear not! We present our annual offbeat V-day guide, guaranteed to add some flair to the red-heart holiday (whose idea was it to put a celebration of love and relationships smack in the middle of the great gray beast February anyway, we ask you?). Ancient Girls Gone Wild The Young Friends of Penn Museum present their second annual look into......

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing the wife of one of his aides.......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Cheer up, folks - the worst day of the year is already over! (Via) Gemotion is a new type of screen for projected video that actually bulges and collapses in synch with the graphics on it. It's real 3D! That's kind of cool, but also kind of creepy... (Via) Sigh. We have to add a new blog to our already crowded......

Daniel Whelan made his the final meeting of his five-year term on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission a doozie by proposing two controversial resolutions that hadn't been presented before: one to bar school employees from engaging in political activity (rejected), and another calling for the sale of valuable artworks to raise money for the schools (postponed), which brought to mind the whole Eakins "Gross Clinic" dust-up. Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia has doubled the number......

A long-promised Youth Study Center is still unlikely to come anytime soon, partially due to an archaic, unwritten law of the City Council. Yesterday, it was another Philly Mayoral candidate's turn to announce his plan to fight crime in the city - Michael Nutter. Yesterday was also Rendell's second inauguration, and Philly Inquirer reporter Amy Worden was blogging it. We find it vaguely amusing that the URL of the blog starts with "pain." Pennsylvania,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Maxim, oddly enough, brings us a fantastic series of videos known as The Greatest Martial Arts Moments. Metal!! Jet Li is magic. (Via) Completely and totally not safe for work, but also necessary viewing: Number Six's Playboy spread. Yes, that's Tricia Helfer from "Battlestar Galactica" naked. Hoo boy. (Via) Enjoy Charlie the Unicorn's magical adventure to Candy Mountain!......

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year! Austinist was all about controversy as new construction to increase urban density ran rampant in 2006, as did threats to the city's image from gigantic corporations looking to set up shop in town, leading......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Since they got their new crop of bloggers, Table of Malcontents on Wired has become rather disturbing and raunchy. So of course, we continue to read it religiously. Some recent links we found interesting from them: naked fencing (borderline NSFW), Christmas pin-ups (a list of links, with NSFW ones labeled as such; via), and the Tiny Animals on Fingers Flickr group, which is......