If you still aren't bored of stories about Jocelyn S. Kirsch and Edward K. Anderton, then by all means, read on. Meanwhile, other rather more dangerous criminals are still on the loose. Police still have little to go on in the brutal November 25th murder of John Bartram High School sophomore Antonio Q. Clarke, who was last seen alive trying to catch a trolley in Southwest Philadelphia. Call police at 215-686-3334 or -3335 with......

Eggplant is a versatile vegetable. Its many uses include: Eggplant Parmesan. Baba ghanoush. Eggplant fries. Crostini with roasted eggplant spread. Eggplant caponata. Eggplant rollatini. Getting a shout out from God. A woman who recently lost some family members found consolation in her refrigerator's crisper. According to 6ABC, the woman was preparing dinner Sunday evening (apparently the Sabbath for eggplant, as well as for Christians), when one of the slices appeared to spell out Bob Saget's......

This week’s quote comes from a song that actually has nothing to do with theatre, even though it’s been popularized in cabaret clubs and piano bars since Mary Hopkin made it a hit in the 1960s. It’s called “Those Were the Days,” and we’ve had it stuck in our head since we saw the title of the first show listed below. The chorus goes in full: Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd......

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The song "Thou Shalt Always Kill" offers us some new commandments for a new age. Pretty brilliant! (Via) Anthony Hopkins says he might end up in that Wolfman movie with Benicio Del Toro. We're not sure how to feel about that. We don't really trust Hopkins anymore... A remake of Clash of the Titans written by Lawrence Kasdan?......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

Philly's a great town for live music. We get almost all of the big national tours. We have several large concert-friendly venues when other cities are lucky to even have one. And there are a ton of smaller bars and clubs where smaller and local acts have the opportunity to play. These can range from the upstairs at Fergie's Pub to significantly larger standing-room venues like the TLA or the Electric Factory. And it's these......

Dear men of my new neighborhood: I’ve been known, in the past, to complain about the assortment of men who say rather frank things to me on the streets of Philadelphia. That doesn’t mean I don’t like getting checked out, I just prefer it be done, if not silently, then at least politely. I offer this disclaimer because I’ve got to admit that I, too, am guilty of the occasional – okay, frequent –......

Okay, so you might be wondering at this point why we keep writing about the World Cup. We are well aware that the Philadelphia sports landscape rarely extends beyond the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and 76ers unless something really weird happens (like St. Joe's going undefeated in basketball in a regular season). But we persist, because the World Cup is just that important. And we do like the idea of Phillyist being a city that......

After yesterday's uber-long Elite -ist, we're back with something a little more manageable. And we're going to start doing things differently. Instead of trying to figure out what's going on with our sister sites as it's happening, we've decided to go all time-delay and tell you what went down the previous day. Not only is it easier for us, it keeps us from getting confused about what's fair game, posting-wise. The time difference between......

- The Illadelph complains about strip club discrimination. Clearly, men and women should be objectified equally! - From the Philly LiveJournal Community, This is the City of Brotherly Love, we learn about two events taking place this very weekend: a straight-edge, vegan-friendly Scavenger Hunt and the local manifestation of the 2006 Global Cannibis March. - Akkam's Razor notes that society has been turning our social commentary over to comics and cartoons. (And, of course, Colbert.)......

A few days ago, while we were compiling Elite -ist, we noticed an error. See if you can spot it too. (Hint -- it's at the very top of the page and has something to do with the alphabet.) But first, check out what's going on with our sister sites! SFist: We saw one of these ads yesterday! DCist: Pitchfork is mean, dude! Gothamist: We are happy to announce that we will be celebrating......

Hello out there, smokers – this one’s for you! Just because Philadelphia has yet to pass a smoking ban, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t put a little thought into the process every time you light up a cigarette. While smoking is absolutely your right, you should at least consider that not everyone wants you to exercise it – which is why smoking bans have passed in New York, California, New Jersey, and my own hometown......

Sorry to start things on a down note today, but we thought LAist's post needed to lead. More entertaining posts from other -ists follow. We promise! LAist: Because this week's "Celebrity" post was entirely dedicated to Brit and K-Fed, we didn't get a chance to pay tribute to the amazing June Pointer, who passed away this week. LAist did a great job with her obit, though, and we're happy to share the photo. Austinist: What......

Phillyist has already told you how we feel about using cell phones on public transit. But there are other times when cell phone usage is, if not completely inappropriate, utterly irritating. What follows here is a partial list of bad times and places to use your cell phones, as well as suggestions to how to handle calls if/when they’re made. It’s not a full list, by any means – but trying to do that, this......

The Penn and Drexel Cycling Clubs are co-hosting The Arkema Group Schuylkill Challenge Bicycle Race in Fairmount Park this weekend. (Note that the title of that last page we linked to predicts the winner as Penn - we wonder if the folks at Drexel, not to mention the other schools, have noticed that yet.) It's actually a series of bike races and time trials taking place in various places and at various times on Saturday......

We know, we know. It seems the only time Phillial rears its enviously sexy head is to censure wild and wacky local sex politics. Our editor has already told us to go sit spreadeagle in a corner. We think he’s playing “Bad Cop” in this dungeon. Handcuffs aside, we’d like to decompress the so-bad-it-should-be-on-Jerry real life drama of Signatures: the strip joint that just won’t go away. You probably first heard about the drama in......

If you’re a swinger, you’ve heard of it by now. If you’re not, you’re probably wondering what happened to Señor Rattler’s Cantina. Club Kama Sutra, the consensual-sex club for adventurous adults and their partners (and, to outsiders, ostensibly the aforementioned poorly named Mexican restaurant), was shut down two weeks ago by the Department of Licenses and Inspections after a surprise midnight raid that yielded a few minor “business code” violations. According to Kama Sutra’s......

Well, we were going to tell you about Dracula's Ball, the regular Goth event that happens to occur on Hallowe'en every year (what a coincidence!), but then we had a bright idea: Why do all the work when we can have someone else tell you all about it? So we traded some emails with promoter Patrick Rodgers of Dancing Ferret, and he graciously agreed to answer some spoooooky questions. (Incidentally, that's not Patrick to......

The Cranky Cocktail knows it's been a while since he's had a chance to impart to you some of his choice wisdom. He apologizes. But to make it up to you, here's a picture of a hot model. Specifically, it's International Fetish Model Kiwi, a Philadelphia local -- check her out in the latest issue of Passional, if you haven't seen it already. International Fetish Model Kiwi has several drinks that she enjoys, including one......

The band emerged onto a darkened stage, to a background of computer-provided crickets and wind. From the moment they launched into "A Forest," Nouvelle Vague had the audience. Stripped down to drums, guitar, computer and a pair of singers, the band seemed tiny on the imposingly huge and high stage of the World Café Live. The space seemed divorced entirely from the smoky jostle of the punk clubs and the intimacy of the jazz......

To the male patrons (and aren’t they all?) of local strip clubs: So we admit it. Despite previous posts about public nudity and being appropriately dressed, we kinda love strip clubs. It’s not that the naked women turn us on (they really don’t – at all). It’s not that we’re looking to bring one home for the crazy orgy we’ve got planned. It isn’t even that we see stripping as a lucrative career path should......

It should come as no surprise that Phillyist is aggressively local. And why not? There’s good livin’ in Philadelphia - cheap real estate (compared to other Eastern cities, anyway), restaurants and culture that hold their own at the very least, and teams in every major sport that, even if they’re not always good, are always fun to follow. What constantly surprises Phillyist is how aggressively, er, regional Philadelphia magazine seems to be. Phillyist spent some......

The Jersey shore has been the summer hotspot for Philadelphians for decades. Like many other Philly residents, Phillyist's summers were spent in Sea Isle City since before we could utter any comprehensible words. Burying our mom in the sand, our brother throwing jellyfish at us (the memory haunts us to this day), fishing on the jetties with our Dad, making drip castles with new friends on the beach; the memories are endless. It's a cycle.......