London, UK - Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke has said his band have rush-released their new record
because he was "dispirited" by the conventional album process.
Philadelphia - Drexel University has been branded as being America's "Ugliest Campus" by Radar magazine.
Mag says Drexel's "cracked sidewalks, decrepit classrooms, structural blight megatons of gray concrete and a giant,
looming smokestack will leave you wondering what brutalist fiend slapped together this sorry excuse for a campus."
I'm in love with Josephine Baker...There's one problem she's thirty years dead.
It's a wonder that I in the prime of my life
Can't find someone that's living instead...
Philadelphia - Juan Samuel gets added tonight as No. 30 on the Phillies' Wall of Fame.
Gotta give it up to the homeboy from my youth with the ultra-wide crotch stance.
EDINBURGH, Scotland - The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has received a huge boost.
A new, groundbreaking census released by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows massive numbers (125,000) of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.
"The floor person says to me, 'You're emanating an odor, but you can go eat at the buffet and we'll pay for it,' " Wax said yesterday.
"It's hot. I'm big. I sweat a little bit," he said.
"I was pristine when I came in. It wasn't like I was working on a garbage truck and just walked in. I wasn't a rose, but I didn't smell like a skunk."
West Philadelphia -
Two armed gunmen - dressed in polo shirts emblazoned with the name of the Mann Music Center's food concession contractor -
kicked in the rear door of the money drop office about 11pm after Hippiefest on Tuesday.
They demanded cash and fled with about $11,000, police said.
Whatch yo back for the Philly Hippie...
Thirty years after firing up the stoner comedy genre with their first feature, Up in Smoke, the duo are reuniting for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.
Hey, What's That Smell? will be unveiled Wednesday at a news conference at West Hollywood's Troubadour, where Cheech and Chong's druggie buddy act first gained traction in the early 1970s.
From 1972-85, the pair released nine comedy albums and eight features, all of which were helmed by Chong.
NEW YORK -- Tim Burton and Disney have found their new Alice -- not in Wonderland or down the rabbit hole but Down Under.
Philadelphia - "It's quiet. There's no hassle, no screaming, no one being ripped off.
It's better than LOVE Park. Over there, they just drink, do drugs.
You have two cops over there that harass people, but not here," said Juan Gomez, 42, who said he'd been on the streets since 1983.
True that.
Out of the Shell of the Old : Radical Art discussion night
FREE!
Justseeds will be hosting a discussion night that will use short presentations by 3 local artists as a jumping-off point for discussion around the whats, whys and hows of radical art.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive order banning offshore oil drilling, the White House said.
The move is largely symbolic because there is also a federal law banning offshore drilling.
DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Snoop Dog, MSTRKFT, The New Deal...and you.
The Radiohead singer has teamed up with 11 other artists including members of Gorillaz and The Beta Band for the project, Cortical Songs.
The album is the brainchild of John Matthias who played violin on Radiohead's album The Bends, and composer Nick Ryan.
It is set for release on 21 July.
A desperately lonely man finally meets the love of his life.....unfortunately for him, she is a prostitute who is feeding on the men of New York City. Melissa Bacelar and Jack Dillon star in a film about love, lonliness and flesh eating.
Red Lightning strikes tonight at the Khyber. See it for yourself.
ROME (AP) - The Italian football federation terminated Roberto Donadoni's contract as Italy coach on Thursday.
Ciao ciao, brown cow. C'e vediamo presto.
Zap Mama's fifth album, Ancestry in Progress, is an experience in global soul.See her in Philly at WCL with Questo 6/27/08.
