The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. This ad for The Powerpuff Girls is also a brilliant and hilarious parody of Super Friends. Enjoy! (Via) Obama has many famous supporters—even emo! (Via Jill) PW tracks the sad decline of Nic Cage by listing six films in which he just didn't give a flying... well, you know. (Via Sarah) Well, you can forget about the Tarzan reboot being a......

For better or for worse, Phillyist isn't my day job. A quick glance at my bio will tell you that I work at a local communications firm. That means I do a lot of things, but most pertinent to this week's column, I do press outreach. I want people in the media to talk about my firm's clients. Not just newspapers and television stations, either. We want people to blog about our clients. As bloggers......

Ross and I were invited down to Atlantic City this past weekend for a mini blogger meetup sponsored by the four Harrah's casinos there. I'll write more about that in this week's Return to Sender, but for now, I'm only mentioning it to set the scene. In all, there were ten of us in attendance. The two of us from Philly, two others from Chicago, and the balance from New York City. During dinner,......

Today is another irresponsibly light day when it comes to Can't Miss This! fare. It's not that we don't love you, it's just that we are very popular and everyone wants to spend time with us and, some days, it gets out of control. Like today. So, here's the short-and-sweet skinny on what you should do tonight instead of staying home to defragment your hard drive. Nerd. THE LEGACY OF 1808: THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION......

To the Writers Guild of America: It's not that I don't support your fight. I do. I've signed your petition. I'm a writer myself, and I'd hate it if I wasn't profiting from my own work. (If I was working in TV or film, that is – bloggers don't exactly earn residuals...) But here's the thing: as I write this, I'm watching a month-old episode of Journeyman. My DVR is 95% full. I've just discovered......

This week's quote is from Bertolt Brecht, the author of Mouther Courage and Her Children. It goes in full: "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." Now, on with the listings! 50 West 50 - You love her, but she loves him, and he loves somebody else... November 16-December 2. Tickets online. Baby with the Bathwater - Don't throw it out. November 16-December 1. Reservations online. Hate......

We're a little narcissistic. We have a Google News Alert set up to tell us anytime anyone mentions Phillyist on the internets. Usually, it's just a fleeting reference (like a "fleeting expletive," we suppose) to us on someone else's blog – quite often another -Ist blog. So imagine our surprise last night while we were sitting on the sofa watching a backlogged episode of Ugly Betty on our DVR and GMail told us that......

Plan Philly has an article about that roundtable discussion amongst bloggers, reporters, and academics about the future of Philadelphia. Our own Jill Ivey was there to offer her insights. Go Phillyist! An 18-year-old former Philadelphian has admitted guilt in two armed bank robberies in April in South Jersey, as well as an attempted carjacking and a home invasion following the second robbery. The Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute is on track "to break......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

Hey there, readers! I'm back liveblogging the second day of the First Annual BlogPhiladelphia "unconference." This post will be constantly updating throughout the day, so it's going to stay at the top of the Phillyist main index. But be sure to scroll down for the rest of our regular content, and see full liveblog after the jump! (Meanwhile, forgive us any resulting funny HTML, folks. We're fixing mistakes as soon as we find them.)......

As you may or may not have heard by now, there's going to be a huge gathering of the minds right here in Philadelphia next week. "What minds?" you might ask. Well, minds just like yours, which is to say: blogger minds. Thursday and Friday of next week will mark the first-ever BlogPhiladelphia "unconference," an opportunity for bloggers in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond to convene and chat about blogging and all other......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Dude, car cake! It even has a cake engine under the cake hood and everything. You definitely need to click through and watch the commercial, which is essentially a making-of video. (Via Sarah) Heh. Heh heh. That's so wrong. How many people have recorded themselves playing the theme to Legend of Zelda and uploaded it to YouTube? Who knows? But Music Thing found......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. What was originally going to be a bongos-controller racing game for the GameCube is now coming to Wii with the title DK Bongo Blast, and it'll be controlled using the Wii Remote and Nunchuck. Sadly, it doesn't have a US release date yet (they get it in Japan on June 28, those lucky bastards), but in the meantime,......

Phillyist is pleased that San Francisco-based cartoonist and animator Levni Yilmaz has decided to go bi-coastal and share his weekly "Tales of Mere Existence" series with us. Already a hit at SFist, the comics find the "humor of self-destructive thinking, obsessiveness, and the way that we all create our own limitations and get in our own ways," which, we think, just about sums up the mindsets of most bloggers. Welcome to the fray, Lev! "Tales......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Heh heh. Hearing somebody actually try to pitch some classic video games of the past makes you realize how insane the premises of some of them really are. (Via) Yay! 1UP has more terrible video game box art for us (via)! Meanwhile, Yahoo has the Top 10 Cheesiest Classic Game Commercials (via). You'd be surprised and amused by what odd combinations......

Dear Philly-Area Music Lovers: As I briefly mentioned in my review a few days ago, after taking in Friday night’s poorly-attended show at Johnny Brenda’s, my boyfriend and I spent a little while talking to Ross Flournoy (thanks, Daytrotter, for telling me his last name and supplying some awesome MP3s, to boot!), The Broken West’s frontman. While we were talking to Ross, he actually apologized to us, as did a few other band members......

Memorial Day weekend is filled with block parties, barbecues, picnics and family. If you get tired of your perverted Uncle or nosy Aunt, then head over to Tower Theatre to see Rocco Deluca and the Burden opening for Keane. Rocco Deluca and the Burden hail from Long Beach, CA and just released their debut album I Trust You To Kill Me. "Colorful," their new hit single, has wowed critics in both the magazine and......

PMA Director and CEO Anne d'Harnoncourt is apparently not getting paid what she's worth, at least according to some local arts bloggers, and The Art Newspaper. (Via F. Lennox Campello.) We'd like to take a moment to say goodbye to J. Welles Henderson, the founder of the Independence Seaport Museum. Phillyist re-visited the museum recently, and it really is a testament to his vision. We encourage all of you to visit in his honor.......

With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay tribute to those......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

March is trying to go out like a lamb, but some damn chill yesterday morning left Phillyist wondering when the weather is going to warm up for good. Not like global warming for good, but you get it. Anyhow the Philly blogosphere was kind of light this week. That said, there was a definite sense of hope in the air; the snow has melted (what snow?), and it's almost skirts and/or shorts time. It's also......

Ladies and gentlemen, the full definition of Social Media, according to Wikipedia (since, you know, it's infallible): Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.A few prominent examples of social media applications are Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), YouTube (video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Digg (news sharing), Flickr (photo sharing) and Miniclip (game sharing). These sites typically use technologies such......

Weekend's here, so most bloggers will be taking it light for the next two days. That's because most people blog from work while they're supposed to be getting things done. Yeah you. You know you do it too. So you're reading blogs at work. So? Then it happens, that funny headline or article at which you laugh just a little too hard, then minimize Firefox so the people glancing over don't see. So yeah, you......

This is going to be a short update for the weekly blog roundup. Why? It's because everyone and their mother is at South by Southwest, drunker than Ted Kennedy on nickel night. Oh and most bloggers are writing about who they met and how drunk they got, not about the music (isn't the music the POINT of going in the first place?) Jim McGuinn and XPN are doing a good job though with their web......

Just in case y'all hadn't heard, there's a bloggers meet-up this afternoon. Yeah, it's St. Patricks Day, and yeah you should wear green. Plus it's at Ten Stone. Thanks to Philly Future for the heads-up. Let 'em know you're coming via meetup.com. Seriously though, bloggers only. No groupies. ...Okay, groupies can come too. St. Patrick's Day Blogger Meet-Up Sat, Mar. 17 3:00 PM Ten Stone Bar & Restaurant 2063 South St Philadelphia, PA 19146 (215)......

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal......

In the wake of last Friday's attack on a Germantown high school teacher by students over an iPod, the teacher's union is asking teachers to complete a school climate survey to see how safe their members feel on the job; they're claiming that many incidents of violence don't get reported due to fears that the school will be labeled "persistently dangerous." The mayoral debates should be interesting when they finally happen, because right now the......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. We were kind of hoping they wouldn't make Harrison Ford do too many ridiculous stunts in the next Indy movie, but he at least seems to think they're going to put him through his paces; he's supposedly working out on treadmills for three hours a day and has switched to a high protein diet just to get ready for the filming.......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the......

As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans......