Inadvertently. You see, the men's room at the North Star Bar—which is very small, only fitting one person at a time—doesn't lock. And I was in the middle of relieving myself when I hear the door open, and look back just in time to see the frontman of The Honorary Title sheepishly close the door again. Whoops. Sorry, Jarrod. But my men's room mishap wasn't the important part of Sunday night's show at the......

Paper Route's recent EP poses the question, "Are We All Forgotten?" In a weekend where this Phillyist saw six bands—including three of this Phillyist's favorite bands—and Paper Route was the first of those six, it would be easy for the answer to that question to be, "Yep," or at least, "Oh yeah, we did see Paper Route this weekend." But fortunately, Paper Route's set at Festival Pier on Friday night was strong enough that......

No, not the kind that your parents made you get to earn extra money as a kid, but the kind that will be playing at Festival Pier at Penn's Landing tonight. Paper Route (MySpace) is the opening band on Paramore's Summer Riot tour, and the Philadelphia stop happens to be on this fine Friday. Rain be damned! The band recently released an EP, Are We All Forgotten. And the buzz around them is phenomenal. They've......

It's a bit difficult for us to convey just how psyched we are for Sunday night's concert at the North Star Bar. Not one, but two of our favorite bands will hitting town to provide some much-needed respite from the 24-7 Olympics coverage we've been drowning in. So some good brew, some good bar food, and some excellent tunes sounds like just what we need to get us out of the house (not to mention......

So, has anyone tried to enter the contests that this Phillyist posted recently? If so, you may have gotten a nasty error message. What went wrong, we don't know, but we've replaced the buggy entry forms with new ones, and now the entries are coming through as they should. So if you tried to enter our Paper Rival giveaway or the Philly Sports Club membership contest and got an error message, give it another try......

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! My favorite part about about being a Phillyist writer is the late-night orgies checking out all sorts of music I never would have heard of, let alone heard, if I wasn't involved......

But seriously, we did. How bad was the Eagles game? So bad that we resorted to poetry to express how we felt. And we predicted that it would be a better and more enjoyable use of your time to check out The Color Fred and Paper Rival at the North Star Bar. But it seemed that many people didn't listen to us, which is a shame, because we were absolutely right. Not only were the......

In the last few weeks, the Eagles have looked absolutely anemic against the Giants, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against da' Bears, and unimpressively beaten a couple hopeless teams in the Jets and the Vikings by a mere touchdown apiece. So forgive me for not being that optimistic about Sunday night's game against the Cowboys. Sure, our defense has been fairly solid... if we forget that last 1:57 of the Bears game, where......