• Beer Submarine Wheat Pastings Swamp Fishtown/NoLibs

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) I first noticed this beer submarine wheat pasting a few weeks ago, but it was just one piece under the El on Front street then. Since then however the pasting has found its way on nearly every bare wall in Fishtown...
  • Dos Segundos And A Tornado Warning

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) Louisa and I ate at Dos Segundos last night, despite hearing rumors of a tornado warning. And nothin’ against tornados or nothin’, but ain’t shit happen but some chips fly off the damn table. Yeah, we ate outside. Dear potential natural...
  • (Not So New) Bird Mural In Fishtown

    (CLICK on photos to see them on my Flickr.) This has been there for a while (right outside the Barbary at Frankford and Delaware avenues), but I never took photos of it. Until now. TTLY, Conrad...
  • The Weekly Soundup With Jilian, June 4-5

    (TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb via Fiftyone Fiftyone) 6/4 Friday night Reptar and Co Co Ri Co will be at West Philly’s Danger Danger Gallery by way of Georgia. Joining them will be Philadelphia’s own The Armchairs and TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb. Reptar is one of many...
  • Be A Good Citizen

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) Walk. Bike. Ride… New wheat pastings at Front street and Girard avenue, in Fishtown. They don’t all have to be pretty folks. Some street art is here to inform you. TTLY, Conrad...
  • Sabina Rose O’Donnell, R.I.P.

    (Photos via) As I mentioned yesterday, Louisa and I stumbled onto a homicide scene yesterday afternoon as we walked to drop off our rent checks, to only a few hours later discover that the scene was the site of Sabina Rose O’Donnell’s brutal murder the night before. All last...
  • New Mural In Bella Vista

    (Photos via; CLICK any photo to see it larger and non-translucent.) I’m not actually sure where this is at, truth be told I yanked these photos from Wooster Collective and all they said was it was from Philadelphia… If it’s around you, let me know in the comments! UPDATE:...
  • Dead Body Found Near 3rd Street And Girard Avenue

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) Louisa and I were walking to drop off our rent check this afternoon, when we walked by this all too familiar summer scene: police investigating a senseless, brutal homicide while neighbors stand by in glum wonder. The nude body of an Asian...
  • Wait, How Old Is Miley Cyrus Again?

    (Miley “preforming” at the 1515 Club in Paris.) ‘Cause I thought she was like 16 or something. Maybe it’s the Irish Catholic in me, but this kind of shit don’t seem right to do at that age, even if you are a wanna-be pop star… Why can’t you be...