The Sixers spanked the Knicks (124-84) on Wednesday night at the Wach. Tonight they will be in Orlando, then they’ll turn around and host the Magic on Wednesday at 7PM (get tickets or watch here). Here’s hoping that’ll be two for two. Tomorrow they’ll match up with the Miami Heat, against whom they are 2-0 this season. Flyers aren’t doing too good: their loss to the San Jose Sharks (3-1) last night at home was......

SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens' celebration of Black History Month.Gothamist was surprised that apparently New York City is the fourth most miserable city in the country, after Detroit, Stockton, CA, and Flint, MI.Shanghaiist finds out what the Chinese think of Hillary and Obama.It was with a healthy amount of schadenfreude that Phillyist reported that former Eagle, and now Cowboy (ew), Terrell Owens owes the Eagles a significant wad of cash.Torontoist is two weeks......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Sam Raimi will executive produce a new syndicated, live-action weekly series titled Wizard's First Rule, which is based on Terry Goodkind's fantasy book series The Sword of Truth. Cooper Lawrence, the author who criticized Mass Effect on a now infamous Fox News segment, has finally actually seen the game and is admitting she made a mistake, and that......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. College Football Bowl Games (Mon, 7:30PM-11:30PM, ESPN; Tue, 5PM-9PM, ABC; Tue, 8:30PM-12:30AM, Fox; Wed, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Thu, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Sun, 8PM-12AM, ESPN) - The Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn vs. Clemson, The Rose Bowl: Illinois vs. Southern California, The Sugar Bowl: Hawaii vs. Georgia, The Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma, The Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech, and The GMAC Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa. Dick Clark's New......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Game|Life takes a look at recent comments from the presidential candidates of both parties on the subject of violence in video games, and comes to the conclusion that all the candidates are pretty much the same and voting is pointless. Woo hoo! Mega Man's creator says, barring a last minute intervention, old blue boy won't be appearing in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The Onion A.V. Club has a wonderful feature: Let It Die: 23 Songs That Should Never Be Covered Again. Includes videos of particularly heinous covers of the songs in question. (Via) Pictures and video of a pretty impressive 10-foot-tall fan-made Optimus Prime costume. (Via Jason) We know it's fated to suck, but this trailer for the Iron Man video game sure......

We are proud of our eclectic musical tastes here at Phillyist. From intelligent indie to choral classics and all the way back to the cranium-crushing aural assault of metal, there is no pigeonholing Phillyist's sonic loyalties. Which is why we were excited to review the newest release from California-based [insert generic irrelevant genre label here] quartet Thrice. The two-disc release is more a bundling of two EPs than a double album, but that's fine with......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Nova (Tue, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - This episode apparently consists mainly of footage of a war between termites and fierce, dragon-shaped army ants. The ants are used by a Cameroon tribe known as the Mofu to protect their huts and granaries from the termites. Good times! Wired Science (Wed, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - As always, a great big hodge podge of crazy applications of science......

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the......

Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what may be the first images of notorious street artist Banksy in action. They also got on a runaway train without an operator provoking a response from the transport authorities. Elsewhere, London's answer to Central Station is about to open for business, and Londonist got a sneak preview. Meanwhile, spooky goings-on beneath London Bridge, where a cache of skeletons provided an apt story for Hallowe'en.......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Defective Yeti is celebrating Halloween with a list of links to the entire text of over 20 spooky stories. Here's a unique list: great pizza moments in film. Yum! (Via Sarah, via SlashFood) It's a joining together of geek-iverses for a good cause! "Fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity will auction off an autographed script from SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica to......

Disclaimer: This event preview has been rated "M" for "Mature." Reader discretion is advised. (In other words, if you go to this concert and are offended, don't say we didn't warn you.) Have we mentioned lately that we hate the Electric Factory? We're pretty sure we have. And yet we find ourselves going back there for the third time in as many weeks. We must be gluttons for punishment. But, the bands we want to......

Prepare to be insulted! A recent survey of visitors and residents of 25 cities ranked Philadelphia as the home of the least attractive people in the United States. Apparently we're also among the least stylish, least active, least friendly, and least worldly. Well, we don't know about all of those things, but these results certainly make us feel pretty unfriendly at the moment... (Via Jen) As another new tactic in the fight against crime and......

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice......

For thirty-five minutes, I sat on a loveseat in the dressing room of Ciaran McFeely, who performs under the moniker Simple Kid, and simply shot the proverbial shit. With legs crossed and hair hanging in his face, he thoroughly answered any query that I spewed his way. Follow-up questions were unnecessary; everything was answered. When I originally agreed to interview Simple Kid, I knew nothing of the thirty-year-old Irish banjo strummer. Through my research, I......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With - Jeff Garlin plays a rather pathetic Chicago actor who lives with his mother, and who, in the opening scenes of the film, gets dumped by his girlfriend, loses a part to Aaron Carter, and leaves an Overeaters Anonymous meeting to go to an ice cream parlor. When he falls for a girl there (Sarah Silverman), it could mean......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......

A West Deptford High School student jumped into the Delaware River Wednesday night to help three friends whose boat was stuck on an island off National Park. Sadly, authorities now believe he drowned, though searching will resume for him this morning. Divers will also resume searching the Delaware River, in this case off Chester, for another missing person this morning: Floyd Nelson, the father of NBA player and former St. Joseph's University star Jameer......

Rendell is now supporting the idea, spearheaded by outgoing Philadelphia School Reform Commission Chairman James Nevels, of trying to bring a major league soccer franchise to the city of Chester. While the court battle still rages over whether SEPTA will be able to eliminate transfers or not, Rendell and Fumo announced Tuesday that all seventh-through-12th graders who live more than 1 1/2 miles from their schools will ride for free with a new weekly transit......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. This apparently actually real news article contains the phrase "sex acts with traffic signs," and so of course is a must-read. (Via) Hello Kitty has been many things to many people, but now for cops in Bangkok, Thailand she will be a symbol of shame and punishment. The new rule is, when a cop does something wrong, he......

Tonight, Rooney is opening for Fergie's Verizon Wireless VIP Tour at the Electric Factory. Unfortunately you can't buy tickets to this show, but you can actually WIN tickets at various places around town. We've never heard of an artist doing an all-promotional concert. Interesting. Fergie must be getting paid pretty good from Verizon to promote the hell out of their products. We found out through a Fergie's MySpace bulletin that you can get tickets.......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Fay Grim - Even indie movies get sequels now. This is Hal Hartley's follow-up to Henry Fool, and it tells the story of the title character (played by indie darling Parker Posey), the mother of Henry's son, who ends up in the middle of espionage, conspiracies, and con-games when the CIA asks her to travel to Paris to retrieve Henry's property. Jeff Goldblum also stars. This......

I have the worst luck sometimes. Seriously. I haven't lost my wallet, keys, or car (it's true I have lost my car - don't ask, it's a long story) for a LONG time, so I guess karma has to bite my ass in other areas of my life. A couple of weeks ago, I sat patiently for two hours to hear Albert Hammond Jr., and by the time they came on, I could only......

Forget Ben Franklin: the greatest inventor in the area was the Dutch gal who first looked at the bottom of a pot just used to make liverwurst and thought, there has to be something more here. And so was born scrapple, the breakfast delight of Phillyites everywhere (though we've heard they look at you funny in California), including Big Ben himself. To celebrate all things offal,Reading Terminal is hosting Scrapplefest tomorrow from 10 am-......

Bands I Caught: Illinois, Bardo Pond, The Spinto Band, Dr. Dog Venue: Starlight Ballroom When I saw a newspaper ad with the POPPED! lineup several weeks ago, the Starlight Ballroom show, especially, enticed me. Not only because that was my favorite venue south of Girard but because I was a big fan of Dr. Dog and enjoyed what I had heard of Illinois and The Spinto Band. And right from jump the event exceeded my......

This Spring is the third anniversary of Lifeknot, online meeting place for people of all ages, based solely on interests and hobbies. The CEO and founder, Matt Muro, began Lifeknot after using online dating services that seemed to force an instant romantic relationship. “I felt that online dating sites rushed people into the relationship stage of a friendship and social networking sites linked you to so many people that the intimacy of establishing a......

Andy Reid is back from his leave of absence and ready to coach the Eagles full time again - or is he?? Only time will tell for sure... We're kind of oddly disturbed by the news that the historical tours that many guides are giving around the city are in many cases not factually accurate. The Inquirer takes a look at some of the interesting new techniques local schools are using to improve test......

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......

Director David Fincher's latest film, Zodiac, is, like a number of his other films, another crime thriller examining tortured, obsessed, and violent human beings. But this time it's based on a true story: that of the serial killer who called himself Zodiac, and who was active in the area around San Francisco in Northern California for a number of years during the late '60s and early '70s. But really the film is less about the......

In case you were wondering, yes, the violence continues: A series of shootings this weekend left four dead and six wounded. In case you were interested in the count, that's 58 homicides so far this year, which puts us 20% up on last year's rate. What with the current increase in violence, this would seem like a particularly bad time to have fewer police on the streets; unfortunately, that seems to be exactly what......