Looking back on a week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks. Someone please take this guy's shit and give him a car. He must really need one to be offering up his nerdhood like that. A South Philly man was (and still is!) taking bids on his nerdhood... err, uh, sweet Death Star Painting. ...While another, ahem, "man" (who will NEVER be confused with Cat Stevens), begins the hunt for a "sexy time specialist" Sexy time......

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I checked out Toronto's own The Midway State on Thursday, Jan. 31 when they opened the kickoff of MIKA's American tour. I was...confused. I liked the band well enough, I suppose. I mean, I like Ben Folds and Snow Patrol and Coldplay...kind of, and The Midway State sounded like pretty much an amalgamation of all three, with the occasional smattering of Aqualung thrown in. In the entirety of their half-hour set, though, I found......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Try Not to Get Sick on Your Shoes: Positively Sick on South Street, featuring Jukebox Zeros, The Victims, and Women, all to the backdrop of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians at Tritone (1508 South), 9PM. $6 Philabundance Benefit: Featuring Lizanne Knot, John Conahan, the Hustle, and Kuf Knotz at Upstairs at World Café Live (3025 Walnut), 7PM. $8 + a canned good SATURDAY Could You Hold the......

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,......

The fact that this morning's article about "Bonnie and Clyde" turning themselves in starts with a story about Kirsch's tits would be funny anyway, but we find it particularly amusing given the focus and title of our post on the subject yesterday. Yesterday's snow storm didn't cause too much trauma, besides a few accidents, some icy roads and sidewalks, and some school delays. The developer working on the Girard Warehouses ("the historic complex of early......

We're sure you've heard by now, but as we haven't had a chance to mention it here yet: on Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided that "City Council's longstanding failure to vote on SugarHouse's zoning and land-use requests" constituted "deliberate inaction" and therefore "cleared the way for construction to begin on the $550 million SugarHouse casino in Fishtown and Northern Liberties." SugarHouse officials say they expect to start construction in a matter of weeks. The......

UPDATE: Oops! I forgot links! I've added them now, and made a few other tweaks. What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer &c. (Tue, 8PM-9PM, CBS) - The extremely odd, but quite lovable, 1964 classic about the reindeer with the glowing red nose, the elf who really wants to be a dentist, a bunch of misfit toys, and the Abominable Snow Monster. CBS is also airing Frosty the Snowman and......

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and......

Use caution if you're travelling around the area this morning - there's actually snow on the roads north and west of the city, and 2 to 7 inches in northeastern parts of the state, and the weather has already caused some accidents and downed power lines. Some schools are opening late or canceling their morning kindergarten; check out NBC10's full list of school closings here. Mayor Street, "once regarded as Public Enemy No. 1......

Dear Philadelphia Winter: The fact that I've started putting on a scarf for my walk to work means you're right around the corner, and there's no stopping you. For a significant portion of my life, I considered you a necessary evil. After all, without you, there would be no Thanksgiving, no Christmannakkanzaa, no New Year, right? But about three years ago, I decided that was a ridiculous idea. After all, people in, say, San Diego......

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford begins with the last train robbery Jesse and Frank James did together, and already you can tell the lengths to which writer/director Andrew Dominik and his DP Roger Deakins have gone to create a new cinematic language for the Western. The night is pitch-black, and the light of the train shines through a late-autumn forest as if God himself were onboard. The inside of the......

By Bill Hayes and Pencopal This week, the Renegade Phillyists are feeling slightly less hateful, but just as snarky. Think of it as haterade lite. So instead of picking people off one by one, we've decided to taze them. Bill's To Taze List: 1) The people at Pitchfork. If you've heard of an album, they probably think it blows. I've been listening to the latest Tegan & Sara album, The Con, and I have been......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Check out this post by a Croatian comic-book artist about his favorite manga. It's as good a way as any to step into the weird and wild world of Japanese comics. Also check out the comments of the Drawn! post that led us to that list, as they contain even more recommendations. (Also, we second the recommendations of Death Note and Uzumaki, which......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. For the 24 fans, and 24 haters, out there, a list of the 10 Most Ludicrous Moments in the History of 24. (Via) How about another list? Nerd World has for us the Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels That Really Need to Get Made into Movies. Um, you forgot Song of Ice and Fire!!! And we're sorry, but Snow Crash just isn't that......

Today's reason that we love Philadelphia is that Kate Havnevik and Air will be playing at the Fillmore at the TLA. While the weather is coming in a close second, it doesn't surpass tonight's concert. Havnevik will only play thirteen cities in the country and Philadelphia is one of them. We are so damn lucky. Last week we introduced you to Kate Havnevik, pronounced "Hav-ne-veek", through a detailed interview on her life, music, tour,......

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Bands I Caught: Fursaxa, Fan of Friends, War on Drugs, King Kong Ding Dong Venue: The Parlor Tucked away on South Broad next to "You, Me, and Wee" (which, incidentally, seems like the perfect venue for another POPPED! band, Pissed Jeans), the Parlor is a surprisingly cozy venue, despite its unremarkable storefront. I slid through the front door and followed klip//collective's electric-blue polka dots of light back to the main room, where I caught Fursaxa......

We know, it's snowing (or something like it) and yes it's still April, but we have a great band for you to go see tonight. Some of you won't want to venture out tonight, but we definitely think it will be worth it. Screw the snow/slush/rain and come out tonight to see the Headlights perform in the middle of two other bands, Page France and The Trolleyvox. All three bands are a mix of infallible......

Hey, how about this lovely weather we're having lately? We've got a nor'easter in the area, today supplying us with flooding, high-speed winds, and snow and rain at the same time. Is it really Springtime, or is it the end of the world? You decide! A U. Penn researcher is using Science!TM to try to disprove a fascinating story about maidens ritually killing themselves in a Mesopotamian tomb 4,600 years ago. The guy who......

A Quirky Column about Dog Walking Adventures in the City of Dog-Owning Love Dogs in Film Seeing as how there is so much coverage of the Philly Film Festival going on right now, and seeing as how so many dog walkers search for yet another interesting topic to discuss with their peers at the local parks, I figured, hey, why not compile a list of dogs in film. From this list, all dog owners and......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Philadelphia Film Festival - We've mentioned this once or twice. It's here again! All kinds of movies at all kinds of venues around the city. Take a look at the website for more details. Most Likely to Rule: Grindhouse - There's not much we can say about this movie we haven't already said. It's an homage to the titular gritty, extreme '70s-era genre, and consists of......

March is trying to go out like a lamb, but some damn chill yesterday morning left Phillyist wondering when the weather is going to warm up for good. Not like global warming for good, but you get it. Anyhow the Philly blogosphere was kind of light this week. That said, there was a definite sense of hope in the air; the snow has melted (what snow?), and it's almost skirts and/or shorts time. It's also......

According to SEPTA's website, no service has currently been discontinued due to weather. However, this Phillyist just took a freezing, slippery walk home from 34th and Market because... the El isn't running! There also wasn't a bus in sight, and cabs were all full, as well. This may have been a temporary inconvenience, but just in case, plan for some extra travel time and wear an extra pair of socks! Image of walks in......

On Tuesday, cops and local FBI agents tracked down and eventually caught one of three suspects in a series of (heavily) armed robberies of fast food restaurants and convenience stores in Philadelphia, Yeadon, and Upper Darby - but not until after the guy ran from them across a series of rooftops in West Philly, occasionally jumping across gaps of 10 feet or more, just like in a movie! The cops followed a trail of......

The City Council's hearings on Mayor Street's budget opened Tuesday with Street's chief of staff painting a bleak portrait of the city's fiscal future: "a weak tax base, high tax burden, escalating costs, high service responsibilities and low state financial support." Healthcare costs, prison costs, the homeless, and tax cuts are all contributing to the problem, which may lead to the city's surplus slowly shrinking over the next five years. The snow led to......

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What with all the stuff going on recently with their staff and students, including a former professor pleading guilty to charges of producing child pornography abroad, Penn is understandably thinking of being a bit more strict about who they let in. Some changes they're considering are performing criminal background checks on prospective faculty, and requiring students to divulge criminal convictions on their applications. Mayoral candidate Dwight Evans has decided to embrace wholeheartedly a demographic the......

It's President's Day! Many, including yours truly, don't get the day off (boo!), but some places are closed. The Philadelphia Inquirer has the handy list. Interstates 78, 80, and 81 were all locked up and shut down for a good part of last week, mostly due to poor response to the ice and snow, and to accidents caused by same. Worst of all was I-78, which for a while had a 50-mile backup, stranding......