When Phildelphia artist Erika Risko's work was exhibited at the 2008 Moore College of Art & Design's Senior Art show, it hung as the artist intended and as shown to the left. When it was included in the curated show "Early Look," which took place recently at the Longview Gallery in Washington, DC, it was also displayed in the same form. "Early Look" was an exhibition (curated by this writer) that showcased undergraduate art students......

The Drexel women (15-11, 10-5) were looking like contenders after three straight wins, including a spanking of William & Mary. But then reality set in, in the form of #10 Old Dominion. The men (11-18, 4-12) didn't have to worry about being exposed as mediocre–everyone knew they stunk. But apparently they still felt compelled to show everyone, in the form of losses to William & Mary and Fairfield. Their regular season will sputter to a......

Nearly a year after the massacre at Virginia Tech, questions on gun control have emerged again in the wake of the February 14th shooting at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. A Google News search yields just as many op-ed pieces about the Illinois tragedy as news articles. Here’s a review of gun-related news in those states: Virginia seems unchanged by the tragedy as far as gun regulation is concerned. According to the Virginian Pilot,......

The Drexel Lady Dragons (14-10, 9-4) got a pair of solid home wins this week, topping Delaware and James Madison. Now they'll take the show on the road, heading to William & Mary tomorrow night before a big showdown with #10 Old Dominion on Sunday. Things weren't quite as peachy for the men (11-16, 4-11). They lost a tough double-overtime game to Old Dominion last Thursday. Fortunately, they edged out a win against Delaware over......

Let us say up front that we buy into Virginia Woolf’s theory about women artists: it was/is often lack of opportunity, rather than lack of talent, that keeps the gender imbalance in the classic art canon holding steady. Controversy still abounds as to the placement and display of female artists, particularly whether it matters. If art is good, it is good, right, and will be recognized as such, regardless of gender. Would that it were......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. College Football Bowl Games (Mon, 7:30PM-11:30PM, ESPN; Tue, 5PM-9PM, ABC; Tue, 8:30PM-12:30AM, Fox; Wed, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Thu, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Sun, 8PM-12AM, ESPN) - The Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn vs. Clemson, The Rose Bowl: Illinois vs. Southern California, The Sugar Bowl: Hawaii vs. Georgia, The Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma, The Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech, and The GMAC Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa. Dick Clark's New......

So remember the other day when we told you how hilaaaaaarious Mike Birbiglia is, and how you should totally go see his show this week? We wouldn't tell you to do something we wouldn't do ourselves. (Well, that's a lie. We often tell people to do things we wouldn't, simply because the outcome is pretty funny. Example: Go try to eat ten saltines in under a minute with no water. We'll be waiting.) Our......

A heavy bag left on the sidewalk on Broad Street early yesterday morning led to the street being closed between Spring Garden and Callowhill, and to the evacuation of the school district's administration building. The bomb squad came and blew up the bag at 8:30AM yesterday. There's no official word as to whether the bag actually contained explosives, but from what the Inquirer was able to dig up, it sounds like it was just......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Sure, Wikipedia can be unreliable. But just how reliable is the Encyclopedia Britannica? (Via Jill) The word from Jo Rowling is that she's not necessarily done with Harry after all - a Potter encyclopedia could be in our (admittedly distant, because she needs a break) future (via Jen). For a bit more of the interview quoted in that article, click here.......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Pulp Muppets. We bet you can guess what it is based on the name. Our favorite part is that Eric Stoltz is already a muppet. (Via) The nominees for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards were recently announced, and you can vote for your picks right here. Although how you can pick anything decent out of the crappy lists of nominees, we're not sure.........

Knox, facing tough opposition from the other candidates in ads and at a recent debate, decides to fight back with... more of the same! He just bought $400,000 worth of time for his TV commercials. The Kingsessing Recreation Center, site of an April 12 shooting, has long had, and continues to have, problems with drugs and violence. Residents don't feel the city is doing enough. The regular monthly meeting of the Kingsessing Recreation Center......

A Penn State football player and his girlfriend got into "an altercation" with some guys on the street, and then later called up his other football-playing buddies and they all went and broke into the apartment building where the guys lived, where "a melee ensued." All of this is allegedly, of course. Anyway, half a dozen Penn State football players are facing charges ranging from criminal trespass to burglary. (Via reader Ross) A senior......

With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay tribute to those......

In response to the shootings on the Virginia Tech Campus and the escalating violence on Philadelphia streets, Broad Street Ministries will hold an ecumenical candlelight vigil service tonight at 7 p.m. “The organizers all care about this issue for various reasons,” said Bill Golderer, the pastor of BSM. “One of us has two kids in college. Another’s nephew was murdered recently. In our minds, these types of violence are all linked together, and we feel......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The site is horribly designed, and the audio quality isn't the best ever, but this internet jukebox that lets you listen to the best of the top 100 via a streaming playlist for each year from 1950 through 1984 ("the golden years of popular music") is pretty cool anyway. (Via Editor Jill, via her grandfather) For those of you who use Valve's Steam......

An anonymous, private donor has a challenge for the Philadelphia Free Library: if they can match every dollar with a dollar raised from another source, they'll get $15 million toward refurbishment and expansion of the Central Library on Logan Circle. Governor Corzine's car was doing 91 in a 65 MPH zone on the night of his recent accident, and although it slowed to 30 before the crash, the trooper driving now admits that his......

By now we're sure you've all heard about the terrible mass murder at Virginia Tech. Here's the Inquirer's article on the subject, and here's DCist's. The consensus on our recent storm? It could have been worse! The flooding wasn't as bad as feared. A Mount Airy firefighter who happens to also be a rapper said he wanted to "turn pigs into bacon bits" in one of his songs. The Fraternal Order of Police asked him......

Phillyist has felt for some time now that the number 23 has been following him around in his everyday life, so when the opportunity came to check out The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen, it had to be done. Shortly after checking out the early preview, Phillyist and his own leading lady ducked in to Moriarty's for a drink. All of the one dollar bills in Phillyist and his lady's wallet were......

Put the knife down, and back away from the peanut butter. It appears that salmonella present in jars of Peter Pan and Great Value (read: Walmart) peanut butter has caused nearly three hundred cases of salmonella across the country, leading to a rash of hospitalizations. The majority of reported infections have been in New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. So far, no deaths have been tied to this outbreak. The FDA is currently warning......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Admit it: you've got a weapon or valuable that's just crying to be hidden inside a hollowed out book. Well, what are you waiting for? Make one! (Via) The Regal Cinemas theater chain are going to start providing remote alert devices to select customers who will be able to use them to alert the staff of problems at......

Could Republican House Speaker Dennis "Hasturd" Hastert join Mark Foley and ex-Gov Jim McGreevey in the "repressed formerly closeted homos" camp? Gay news blog Qweerty.com certainly thinks so: Lucky for all of us who enjoy watching the downfall of others, The Wayne Madsen Report has confirmed from Washington insiders that Turd-Face does, in fact, like it in the butt. The rumors about another top GOP member of the House being involved in sexual encounters......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. ET Presents The CW: Launch of a New Network (Mon; 9PM-10PM; UPN/CW) - As you already know if you've watched TV or read anything about TV in the past month or so, there's a new network being born on September 20th, which is really just the sad remains of two networks: UPN and The WB. If you're interested to see what programming they'll be offering, you can......

- A Virginia Beach woman wanted in connection to a local missing persons case showed up at a South Philadelphia police station with the corpse of the missing person inside her minivan, and turned herself in. - More shooting news: a local man was shot in the face, while a woman was shot in the hip, both on Durham Street. You have no idea how frustrated Phillyist is that shooting news has become so......

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Phillyist is, of course, just as patriotic as all of our other Ist brethren out there. And while we might not go crazy flouting it the way we suspect our friends at Londonist will over the next few weeks, we'll still be rooting hard for the good ol' U-S-of-A. Specifically, we'll be rooting for two players on the U.S. roster who hail from Philadelphia: Bobby Convey and Chris Albright. Convey, who plays on the......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Check out this great profile of video game referee and uber-geek Robert Mruczek on MTV.com. Yes, I said video game referee. He works for a gaming collective called Twin Galaxies, which, as MTV points out, is "the closest thing to an official video game record-keeping organization" that we have. He studies video-taped gaming sessions (over a thousand at this point), checking for signs......

We think it's kind of sweet, this crazy optimism coming from Temple University's new football coach, Al Golden. Golden, the former defensive coordinator at the University of Virginia, was recently named replacement for Coach Bobby Wallace. He seems positively giddy about the prospects of Temple football's future and the joy of athletic recruiting. That's always nice, that fresh enthusiasm that comes with a new job."I would like nothing more than to have some parents come......

Kali Morgan - the proprietrix of Philadelphia's own Passional and editrix of the similarly titled magazine - knows great sex. And she isn't afraid to talk about it. "I was raised by born-again Christians," Kali says. "They've pretty much gotten over what I do for a living." Or give you a sales pitch. "The Hitachi Magic Wand is a guaranteed orgasm for women. Guys say they don't like vibrators because they're jealous. Jealous of what?......

You've probably heard of it before - the mythical Rejection Hotline, whispered about in local bars and college parties as the savior to sexy Philadelphians (and their misguided suitors) everywhere. Philly's Rejection Hotline number, 215-618-1505, directs you to a cheerful recording voiced by a man that sounds like he stepped out of an Enzyte penis-enlargement commercial: "You're probably boring dumb, annoying, arrogant, or just a general weirdo!” "This person would rather play leapfrog with unicorns!"......