Dear YouTube: There's so much about you to love. From Tay Zonday to Samwell to He Man Sings to Liam Kyle Sullivan to Barats and Bereta (that's their newest video on the right) to Eepy Bird to the Numa Numa kid to Chad Vader to, um, stuff like this, you have given me hours upon hours of entertainment since your launch in February of 2005. I've spent countless nights staying up until four in the......

Phillyist is pleased as punch to welcome another writer to our staff – and not just because he's dating one of our editors. New staffer Ross Currie is a recent grad of Villanova Law, and he's due to start practicing at a Center City firm this fall. Provided that he's not spending too many late nights writing briefs, you'll be reading his thoughts on music (you can see the two guest posts he's written for......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

When we last posted an update on the construction of the Comcast Center, it was from a lofty position on the 43rd floor. This update comes from a bit more humble of a perspective - namely, the street - but displays a pretty impressive feature anyway: glass. The installation of glass at the site is hardly breaking news, since it began in October. Not until the last month, though, has it reached a height......

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......

The Scare Brothers are hosting their Haunted Nightmare at Station Park in Hatboro, about 30 minutes outside the city. Since Hatboroist is still in private beta, we figured that we should provide you with this not-so-late-breaking news. The event, which opened on Oct. 7 and finishes up its October run Oct. 26 - 30, was "voted the scariest haunted house in Philadelphia in 2004" according to the Scare Brothers Web site. They don't really......

City Councilman Rick Mariano, a local politician who has had federal indictment rumors swirling about him recently, climbed onto a ledge and City Hall tonight and threatened to commit suicide. He was talked down from the ledge by Mayor John Street and Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson. Mariano was then taken to a hospital, where he presumably is now. Mariano was at City Hall's observation deck, which stands approximately 500 feet above street level. We don't......

While some might consider Johnny Knoxville playing water football with a kid to be breaking news, we're not that kind of publication. Nope, we were merely pumped up to see Knoxville sporting a Wawa tatoo on his left shoulder, goose and all. There was this one time that we saw Pat Ciarrocchi in a Wawa getting coffee, but I think that Knoxville sporting the Wawa tat totally overshadows that in terms of Wawa-related celebrity bullshit.......