Dear Philadelphia Voters: I hope you’re proud of yourselves. No, really. I’m not saying that in the “Johnny, I hope you’re proud of yourself. Now your little brother has a black eye,” kind of way. I’m saying that in the most sincere way I can. Because whether you’re happy with the results of Tuesday’s Primary Election or not, you should still be happy about the day itself. I grew up in a very political......

So, you got out there and voted. The results have come in and, although you may or may not be happy with the outcome, that's no reason to stay at home and pout. So here are a few things to consider doing after your workplace gab-fest regarding those results has concluded. SILK CITY PRESENTS: PAPAYERA GUAYAVERA CON JUAN(DERFUL) THE ONE We don't know what it means, either. But we know that it's supposed to......

Today is the day. And the image says it all. We know how great Philadelphians are, how proud and patriotic we can be. And we also know how much every true Philadelphian loves to complain. Sports, weather (guilty as charged) and politics, among other things. Well, the fact is that if you don't vote, your complaints are merely worthless and meaningless strings of words, thrown together by someone with no legitimate right to complain.......

We admit it: we were some of the people utterly pooh-poohing the notion that Pennsylvania would be at all relevant in the presidential primaries, much less the hotbed of Democratic campaigning it’s turned into over the last few weeks. We were really just used to not mattering. But lo! What light through yonder voting-machine-curtain breaks? ‘Tis Chelsea Clinton, and Obama starting some shit that’s all the rage on the news channels. Guess we matter after......

Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama exchanged blows in Ohio Tuesday leading up to next week’s primary in that state. 161 delegates are at stake. The exchange of criticism focused largely on Clinton’s position on the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. On free trade, there appears to be little difference in the candidates’ rhetoric and voting records. Clinton, however, faces a challenge on the issue that Obama does not. Obama claims that......

Did you ever imagine yourself getting paid to be a food critic? Most of us have at one point. (We bet that food critic is on your dream job wish list right below travel writer.) Surely most of us will never reach Craig LaBan status, but here's a way that we can all rate our favorite restaurants and receive something in return. Zagat's is calling for reviews of Philadelphia area restaurants in their online survey.......

OK, we'll admit, the title of this post is deliberately sensationalistic, but every part of it is true, in one way or another. Anyway, it got your attention, right? What we're talking about here is the Super Furry Animals/Holy Fuck show tomorrow night at the Starlight Ballroom. We're sure you've heard of twelve-year-old British indie weirdo band Super Furry Animals. But you might not know they're doing a pretty cool thing on this tour:......

• Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye.
• Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city's only English-language paper.
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A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It may be an ad for a book about Spam, but it's also a really neat little movie featuring stop-motion animation via artfully toasted bread! (Via Sarah) Lake Superior State University has concocted its 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. Meanwhile, on the eve of the American Dialect Society (ADS) voting for its......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Game|Life takes a look at recent comments from the presidential candidates of both parties on the subject of violence in video games, and comes to the conclusion that all the candidates are pretty much the same and voting is pointless. Woo hoo! Mega Man's creator says, barring a last minute intervention, old blue boy won't be appearing in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You know what your cat needs? A wig! Ah, the internet and its fascination with doing strange and terrible things to cats... (Via) Dude, a dinosaur mummy. Scientists have found the remains of a hadrosaur that have been mummified by a natural fluke of time and chemistry. It's one of only five dinosaurs to be found in this......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Do you want to see a music video for the Gilbert & Sullivan version of "Baby Got Back?" Of course you do. (Via Sarah) Wow - turns out officer Chuck Cassidy and his shooting are the subject of an urban legend/email forward that already made it onto Snopes. (Via Debbie) Harmonix will send you a replacement for your busted Rock Band guitar if......

If you haven’t heard already, Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins is the MVP of the National League. And there is absolutely no one that’s more deserving of the award, except for Rockies left fielder Matt Holliday. You can argue for any player winning the award. Rollins gained 16 first place votes, finishing with 353 points, edging out Holliday’s 11 first place votes and 336 points. This year’s MVP voting was precarious in that J-Roll wasn’t......

Ah, what I wouldn't give to be the average George Bush supporter at this very moment in time. If I could, then I could delusionally ignore what I have just seen and pretend like everything is all right with "the home team." Yes, the Eagles just thoroughly dominated the overmatched Jets! Yes, there are WMDs hidden behind one of the flat-screen TVs in Saddam Hussein's palatial domain that just haven't been found yet! Yes, voting......

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. Bostonist got a crash course in what not......

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Philly, we know you've got musical talent. You play instruments, write music, dance, dj, and, of course, sing. Some of you sing for money, in venues ranging from the Kimmel Center to any patch of concrete you can grab. Ever thought of taking your tunes on the road? If you have, the Boston Pops want YOU... to put a video of yourself singing on YouTube and join POPSearch 2007. If you can't get your own......

When you go to vote today, be extra careful that you're voting for the people you mean to be voting for: today's ballot promises to be quite confusing. Meanwhile, The Next Mayor will be liveblogging the results of today's primary election. And if you're still not sure where to go to vote, The Committee of Seventy has an interactive map on which you can find your precinct. An R6 train rear-ended an R5 train (we......

PMA Director and CEO Anne d'Harnoncourt is apparently not getting paid what she's worth, at least according to some local arts bloggers, and The Art Newspaper. (Via F. Lennox Campello.) We'd like to take a moment to say goodbye to J. Welles Henderson, the founder of the Independence Seaport Museum. Phillyist re-visited the museum recently, and it really is a testament to his vision. We encourage all of you to visit in his honor.......

Here's a very horrifying and surreal story for you: Tuesday night a 10-year-old boy was playing outside near his home on Lindley Avenue near 5th Street in Olney when a 25-year-old man walked up, grabbed the boy, and sliced his throat with a knife. The man was held by the family until police arrived, but he offered no resistance and didn't try to get away. Why he did it is still a mystery. The......

Guess who's surging in the polls now? It's Michael Nutter! He's taken a very close second place to Tom Knox, and the Inquirer has a profile. Philly's three African elephants now have new travel plans: Pittsburgh. Here's hoping that this deal doesn't fall through like the last one did. And that they don't become Steelers fans. A Germantown High School teacher got to face the two students that injured him at their sentencing hearing......

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......

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......

Apparently the NYPD recruits, and often holds their police-entrance exam, right here in Philly. In fact, they just had the test on Saturday at Temple. We were wondering what they were doing set up in the Gallery on Friday... Yo, dude, Kumar's gonna be teaching at Penn! Seriously, Kal Penn (no relation) is going to be a guest instructor for the Asian American Studies Program in the spring 2008 semester. Appropriately enough, the classes......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A brilliant fan submission to the Grindhouse trailer contest: Hobo with a Shotgun. (As you might expect, it's rather bloody, and there's some profanity.) And while we're talking Grindhouse trailers, it looks like one of the ones in the movie is going to become its own direct-to-DVD film: Machete. It will be made by Robert Rodriguez and star......

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as they......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......