Bad journalism is to blame for marijuana prohibition.

Did you hear about the Houston woman arrested for allegedly smoking pot during jury selection for a marijuana case? How about the teenagers (also in Texas) alleged to have dug up a corpse so they could use the skull… » more

 

A Philly-based veterans’ group testifies against the Iraq War.

 

What’s a nice British tourist doing on our death row?

 

 

Oil for Mexicans.

 

Summer in Philly…

 

 

 

Memories of Stella Street, lunch truck suggestions, sympathy for the devils, and longing for jazz venues.

Is free running about to go mainstream?

I was standing on the roof of the Allens Lane train station when it came to me that free running--the still largely underground sport with roots in Europe, where "free runners" use the urban landscape to stage ambitious… » more

 

Silhouettes and drawings rule the new school.

 

This blockbuster season features familiar characters.

 

Summer is a Philly foodie’s bonanza.

 

With so much going on in music this summer, it’s hard to complain.

 

Diversity illuminates the imagination.

 

Space 1026 Screenprinting Party, Philadelphia Book Festival, David Copperfield and Belgian Bierfeesten.

 

Life on Mars

 

 

 

Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

 

 

Philly artists should be fed to bears.

 

Dan Landis

 

Eurydice at the Wilma and Philadelphia Theatre Company’s The Happiness Lecture.

Albert Mudrian turned his love of the genre into a job.
By Dan Cappello

In less than four years Albert Mudrian has taken the unseemly subgenre of heavy metal and given it a place to flourish in the pages of his magazine Decibel, a nationally distributed monthly headquartered here in… » more

 

Clay Aiken

 

Yo Majesty; Does It Offend You, Yeah?; Griefs; Sword; Pattern Is Movement; Dan Blacksberg Trio; Local H; Trolleyvox; and DeVotchKa.

 

Lach of an Alternative

 

The Last Shadow Puppets, Michael Pedicin and Dizzee Rascal

 

One of hip-hop’s brightest MCs calls it quits.

 

Fern Knight

Apothecary Bar + Lounge, Sorrento Ninth Street Italian Market Festival.

 

Sangria

 

Sangria Verde

 

Swallow

Workout, Hancock trailer and Blast of Silence

 

 

A weekly roundup of what else is screening around town.

 

Fugitive Pieces

 

Six Documentaries That Bother to Have Great Visuals.

 

Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson