Former Phillyist, now full-time blogger and author, Jen A. Miller made it to the finals of the Hot Blogger Calendar contest. You're next, Jill! Ladies and Gentleman...The Beatles...I mean, The Jonas Brothers! Philly Comedian Doogie Horner teaches Things To Say During Sex over at Comic Vs. Audience. (Buzz Feed picked up the post yesterday. Of course they did, it was about sex.) The Bicycle Chef shows us how to make and can Summer Garden Salsa.......

On stage, Regan J Farquhar wears a plain pink shirt with white block lettering that says, “Sorry, the underground happened 10 years ago.” In between songs, he sways gently from the stage rafters with his eyes closed and his head back in the midst of an impromptu freestyle. Riding high/spiting/rolling by rushing on this suck and jive/Busdrive/shit. Jumping into a bouncy beat something like Kanye, Mia and a rave, he moans into the microphone, stumbles......

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......

It's rare that we get to talk about an indie rock show that features more than one band that we're familiar with and impressed by, but we're getting that chance today. Tonight at Johnny Brenda's both Film School (MySpace) and Eulogies will be playing, along with Cloud Minder and Minipop. Eulogies, on their self-titled release, plays a melancholy (but fun) alterna-pop that one might describe as emo - although we'd rather not, since emo has......

A week ago tonight, OFFICE, quite simply, rocked my face off. It had been a long day – the fourth in a row. I left the office at 6:50, giving me just enough time to go home and change clothes before meeting my plus-one for the evening. I just wanted some feel-good music. Fortunately, as I mentioned in the preview for this show, OFFICE is feel-good music. I just didn't know how good. You......

As this was Nickel Creek's farewell tour, I expected a concert full of Nickel Creek and their music. (Heaven forbid!) Though the concert was co-billed with Fiona Apple, I thought we would see Apple perform as sort of an opener, as well as at the end, where she would perform a couple of encore numbers with Nickel Creek. I was grossly mistaken. Everyone ultimately felt gypped, annoyed and frustrated regardless of who they went to......

A Quirky Column about Dog Walking Adventures in the City of Dog-Owning Love Chill Dogs "I like your dog," she said. "She isn't like most Chihuahua’s. She's chill. That's cool." This laid back artsy girl with a flapper-like hair cut, piercing blue eyes and a blue, cotton dress was standing behind the counter at an extremely chill cafe that serves iced coffee and various cafe accoutrements while paying my friend and his dog, Hannah, the......

Bands I Caught: Fursaxa, Fan of Friends, War on Drugs, King Kong Ding Dong Venue: The Parlor Tucked away on South Broad next to "You, Me, and Wee" (which, incidentally, seems like the perfect venue for another POPPED! band, Pissed Jeans), the Parlor is a surprisingly cozy venue, despite its unremarkable storefront. I slid through the front door and followed klip//collective's electric-blue polka dots of light back to the main room, where I caught Fursaxa......

Bands I Caught: The Bad News Bats, The Northern Liberties, The Mountain High, The Lowbudgets Venue: Millcreek Tavern Granted, I have virgin ears for this kind of thing. But for me, last night was hard. And not hard in that "I could hardly keep my eyes open" sort of way or that "struggling to find words to describe it" sort of way. Not difficult. Just hard. My Millcreek experience was the antithesis of Monday night.......

Bands I Caught: The Cobbs, The Asteroid #4 Venue: Johnny Brenda's This season in hipster fashion, it's all about stripes. Horizontally-striped sweaters. Diagonally-striped tunics. Vertically-striped pants. Stripes, stripes, stripes. You just can't be in a band without 'em! In all seriousness, this post marks the beginning of Phillyist's POPPED! coverage. We can't guarantee we'll be out every night, or that we'll see all the bands if we do, but we're trying our best. If you......

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......

...But it's inspired by something we saw there when we got tired of looking for jobs and decided to briefly digress. Namely, this (quite funny) post in the Missed Connections section, and the subsequent follow-up posts. The initial post reads, in full: Hipsters dry humping in Independence Park yesterday That was awesome. My whole office thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you enjoyed us screaming and cheering for you from the windows across the street.......

Saturday night my friend Rogue 2 and I went to hipster hell, otherwise known as Johnny Brenda's. We were there to see Girl Talk. We got more than we bargained for. Most of the patrons were dressed in gender-specific uniforms. Girls: weird clothes. Karen O-ish. Mismatched pieces, most of it from your local vintage shop. Boys: supertight shirt and jeans for skinny boys. Button down shirt or zip up hoodie and jeans for boys with......

Tired of sifting through that same-old same-old at your local shops and malls? Get your holiday shopping done tomorrow, flea-market style. R5 Productions is hosting the holiday edition of its Punk Rock Flea Market at the Starlight Ballroom. Almost 100 tables will be filled with new and used fare, from wearable art by local artists to used vinyl and CDs. We find ourselves especially interested in table 56, which promises to be full of "kickass......

Mutual Appreciation, which opens today at Ritz at the Bourse, is only the second film by director Andrew Bujalski, but among certain segments of highbrow cinephilia he's already considered to be a rock star. His interests aren't particularly novel--any number of directors, particularly in the orbit of the Sundance Film Festival, have attempted to speak to the lives of self-conscious twentyish urbanites--but Bujalski has won a reputation with what one critic called his "careful attention......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Little People is a cool photo blog/art project. Dude takes photos of tiny hand-painted models posed in interesting spots around London. We like it! Now somebody should start a Philly version. (Via) Speaking of blogs full of fun images, here's a blog of optical illusions. (Via) A list, and this one's pretty cool: the 20 Best Zombie Films of All Time,......

Performances: P's & Q's (Lee Etzold and MyKindaPony) (Future performances); Eye-95 re-tarred (BRAT Productions) (Future performances). I took a two-day breather that wasn't really a breather at all, after my nine-in-three weekend, and jumped right back on the saddle with two shows yesterday, two today, two tomorrow, two Saturday, and (maybe) two Sunday. I love being "press." P's & Q's OMG, a show about manners! OMG OMG! Okay, now that that's out of the way.........

On a recent trip to the allergist, Elite -ist was informed of something quite shocking: a dog allergy. But Elite -ist grew up with dogs! Elite -ist has never had a bad reaction around dogs! Besides...just look at the picture. How could you be allergic to something that adorable? Austinist: Aww, hipster love! Sampaist: Our Portuguese isn't improving, but as long as Sampaist keeps posting adorable puppies—this time with a cute kid!—we'll keep posting their......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

Our weekly look into the odd, strange and bizarre at one .org. I’d need a lot more than $200. I thought this post was kind of generous until I got to the tiara part. Come on, now. What are you, turning 12? And you guys must be pushing 70. That, or you’re taking “hipster” to a ridiculous level. There’s a reason this is in the “Strictly Platonic” section. Another installment of our series on......

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. We don't know about you, but Phillyist only knows one language well, and our penmanship is pretty poor with the right hand and illegible with the left. But the 4- to 8-year-olds at the Veena Vadini School at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, India "can use both their hands to write in two different languages on two different subjects at the same time." Um,......

Phillyist was privileged to attend the grand opening shebang of Delicious Boutique, Delicious Corsets’ new home in Northern Liberties. The store is tucked away in a recently developed shopping area just off American street; initially, we thought we were hopelessly lost because it’s so off the beaten path. However, when the sign hove into view on the shopping area walkway, we gratefully huddled into the warm inside. A spooky circus theme pervades, enhanced by colorful......

Everyone's all abuzz over yesterday's Philadelphia Weekly anti-hipster edition. OK, well, just Philebrity. We mostly flip past the articles to get to the event listings in PW, but it was hard not to notice Steven Wells' whiny, vitrol-filled, diatribe against knitters. Back it up, yo. Phillyist has a couple of knitters on board who plan to beat Wells senseless with their knitting bags next time they see him on the street. Daring to denigrate America's......

Frugal in Philly is a weekly celebration of all things Philly that are fun, frugal (costing $10 or less) or free! Stop here each week to see what Philly's got to offer for those of us who haven't quite mastered the art of becoming Independently Wealthy (although believe me, we're trying). Featured Pick of the Week - Fashion! (Turn to the Left, Turn to the Right): This week, Phillyist gets by with a little help......

If you ever visit the Ukraine, you can only hope you’ll have a tour guide like the Alex, the hipster American-culture junkie and the “very premium” narrator of Everything is Illuminated, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's award-winning novel by the first-time director Liev Schreiber (who already has a substantial resume as an actor). Eugene Hutz, front man of the Brooklyn gypsy-punk outfit Gogol Bordello, plays Alex with an easy hangdog charm, beleaguered by his domineering......

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on......

by Vin Varstin Don't let the end of summer getcha down. Here's a quick overview of some of the best shows comin' at you in the next 24 days. Follow the links for details and on-line ticketing. 9/9 - Idlewild will be back at the TLA pimpin' their third album, Warnings/Promises, which sees a US release three days earlier. While they've edged away from their harsher punk revival inclinations over the years, their latest effort......

Who says Philadelphia’s stodgy? Oddly enough, we’re something of a hotbed of radical media projects, not the least of which is PENNsound. A project headed by University of Pennsylvania professors Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein, the latter of whom has been pushing for the integration of new technology and poetry for years (he was also the co-founder of the Electronic Poetry Center, one of the greatest and most extensive poetry resources online). PENNsound, though, is......

Last week, one of Philly's obscure attractions was featured on the History Channel-- and we missed it! Thankfully for us, Weird U.S.'s trip to the Mutter Museum is being replayed tonight, twice. According to the History Channel's site: Based on the best-selling book of the same name, Weird U.S. is a deliciously demented weekly tour of offbeat American history. Host/authors Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran scour the country in search of the bizarre, the......