• Mayor Nutter Proves He’s Just Like One Of Us

    (Photo via) Mayor Nutter headed over to Fishtown this weekend to check out the Kinetic Sculpture Derby, and while he was in the neighborhood he stopped by the Rocket Cat Cafe for some fresh squeezed lemonade… I love Rocket Cat Cafe and all, but people that are not from...
  • Lost Series Finale Spoiler (Not Really Though)

    Evangeline Lilly, or Kate, apparently ends up as a desperate actress, willing to do cheap singles phone hot-line ads, in the parallel universe. Guess we’ve all been there. TTLY, Conrad...
  • Before It Was Street Art, It Was THIS

    (h/t @msdanika) Fucking AMAZING… Local news coverage from 1982, discussing graffiti artists and street art like it’s the end of the world, or at least the beginning of a bad futuristic 80s movie staring Sylvester Stallone. TTLY, Conrad...
  • Port Richmond Gets In On The Street Arts BOOM

    (Photos sent to me from @dustymauve) New graffiti mural at Webb and Albert streets, in Port Richmond… By the way, if you have no idea where the fuck that is don’t feel bad, neither did I. But I looked it up, and it’s somewhere behind the Wawa/Applebee’s foodplex on...
  • Could We Have A More Perfect First Lady?

    Everyone loves Michelle!! Even as President Obama’s poll numbers slip, Michelle popularity holds strong. (Still not exactly sure why they poll the like-ability of the First Lady, but whatever.) And I can NOT argue. I fucking LOVE her… Doesn’t she kind of look like Cinderella up there? She really...
  • Really Nadya Suleman, You Don’t See The Irony Of All This? No, Really?

    Wow. Well I guess when you need a job–and you have 14 kids–you just take any job. Any job, that is, that’s not a real job. All the while holding onto the last flickering seconds of your fifteen minutes, hoping and praying Dancing with the Stars gives you a...
  • The Weekly Soundup With Jilian, May 19-23

    5/19  Kung Fu Necktie has two incredibly danceable groups for you on Wednesday night. Local duo Gemini Wolf and the Brooklyn-based Growing will be offering up a night full of fuzz, drone, and all around electronic goodness, 5/21 The Khyber has a Friday night line-up that I’m pretty...
  • New Beer Submarine Wheat Pasting In Fishtown

    (CLICK photo to see it on my Flickr.) Found on Front street, between Girard avenue and Wildey street. Something about this just speaks to my essence, you know? Hhhmmm… TTLY, Conrad...
  • Sexy(?) Placard Wooden Mask In NoLibs

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) … I guess it’s sexy , if you are into anime or whatever. I really doubt this is new. I mean, do any of you know? I walk by here often enough that I’d think I would have seen it before,...