Ah the insanity! Not only is there a World Series victory parade today, but Elvira is in town! I can’t decide which event is more unexpected, but here we are. If you want to catch a glimpse of the Mistress of the Dark, you’ll need to know where to be. Luckly, it just so happens that we have Elvira’s itinerary AND I’ll be riding along with [...]

Last Halloween, you spent the entire night handing out candy to kiddies (even though you really ate half of the fun sized candies yourself). So instead of opting for couch surfing with stomach-turning amounts of candy, spice up the spooky holiday at a devilish Halloween party.

Devil’s Alley Bar and Grill is throwing their annual Dance with the Devil Halloween Bash tomorrow. Get creative with your costume and maybe you’ll have a shot at winning their costume [...]

Where would the Philly indie rock scene be without Man Man? Really, it’s hard to say. Somewhere less circus-y, I would imagine, and less campy. Somewhere where men don’t wear war paint or make cat noises or pretend to be dead, where unsuspecting South Philly resident aren’t accosted by noisy fluting bicyclists and fireworks and where Last Drop coffee drinkers never get Honus-ed. (By Man Man frontman/former barista Honus Honus, who would [...]

There are several things you want when you go to a lecture. A compelling topic, a terrific speaker, and that elusive third dimension that you forget about unless you suddenly find yourself surrounded by it… an amazing space.

This Wednesday afternoon / evening, local historian and, fortunately for us, vivacious and engaging speaker Thomas Keels will give a lecture called Rest in Pieces: Philadelphia’s Lost Cemeteries, an outright shocking yet wryly presented look at how we’ve regularly [...]