Culture

While every lonely housewife and intellectually-repressed book club member in America flock to see the premier of 50 Shades of Grey, the adapted film of E.L. James’s book, I pull out of my bookshelf a copy of The Marquis De Sade’s Justine and say (pointer finger up): actually this came first. Already getting...

We at PHILTHY would hope that our readers know that we’re not exactly the type to shy away from (if not downright enjoy) a bit (or maybe more) of S&M (I mean, we’re called PHILTHY, for fuck’s sake.)  However, we’d like to think that we have at least slightly...

Philthy Mag is proud to announce the 10/3 National Realty Gallery opening reception for the PHL project, designed by local Philadelphia Artist Monica O.  O, a graduate of Temple’s Graphic Design program has garnered a lot of attention for her design work that is based on local Philadelphia architecture....

Jon Crary’s Weekly Sound Off April 16-April 23: 1. Woods- “Moving to the Left” (Woodsist) – This amazing piece of retro folk psych rock is cool and blissful, a bit lo-fi and spacey. The singer has a melodic falsetto which all feels like it floats along while head-bopping beats...

After begrudgingly suffering through one of the most agonizing winters in a very long time, I think most Philadelphians are absolutely euphoric at the recent signs of springtime. Whether it’s finally seeing runners whiz past you in Rittenhouse Square or little pinks buds starting to show up on cherry...

After reading City Paper’s response to the NYC Crying Guide, we decided to add to the list of places we have sulked in self-loathe. Let’s face it, Philadelphia is a sad city. Suffering the Napoleon complex to its neighboring city New York, ranking a top-percentage in highest crime rate in the country, and a...

Good Evening Philthadelphia! Fresh off a successful run on the Vans Warped Tour, New Beat Fund’s  is touring with Blink-182 to support them on seven September headlining dates. Philthy Mag was chosen to be able to give out a FREE PAIR of tickets to each location to our readers exclusively (courtesy...

Hey Philthy Mag readers, We love all of you so we thought we’d share the love and give you $10 off a Uber ride! We took our first ride with this app this weekend and we can’t tell you how happy we were with the service and professionalism of...

As the cold season begins to make its way into Philth and the supposed Mayan End-of-Times is on its eve of possible destruction, my only major concern is: what will distant-future anthropologists have to say about the final youth generation’s style? For tentatively planned Apocalypse within the next few hours, ...