The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Check out The Roots on Letterman. (Via Rowdy) An interesting split-screen video with the trailer for Dark Knight on the bottom and footage from the 1989 Batman on the top. You can also see a bootleg video of the new Dark Knight trailer, and a bootleg video of the trailer defaced by the Joker. And while we're talking bootleg trailers, here's......

2:15 PM I’m in Rittenhouse Square so I’ve stopped at La Colombe for a latte. The line is long but moving fast. La Colombe is easily the trendiest coffeehouse in town. The air is sweeter here; I’ve heard they bring it in from France. 2:16 Wow! I didn’t realize there were so many rich, old, gay men without jobs who like coffee in this city. 2:18 I’m at the counter. I tell the barista......

This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King, and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out......

Well, the theatre season is heating up now that we’ve almost reached the PLAF halfway point. So in honor of that, we chose a quote, courtesy of Charles Jefferies, that made us giggle. While the first part of it is contained above, it should read in full: “The Play is the Master and I am its Whore!” Now, on with the listings! Assassins - Yep, it’s a musical about successful and attempted presidential assassinations. Seriously.......

Not that we don't love Old City (we do), but we figured this week, we should focus on some of the First Friday goings-on that aren't part of the typical First Friday scene. Here are a few places we might be checking out tonight – places where the crowds might even be smaller. (That means more wine for us!) First up will be the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, over in Rittenhouse, as they celebrate......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

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.......

We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post about our Mayor's girlfriend. She responded back on charges that she's not a "girl's girl" and, whoo boy-- the floodgates? They......

The snow storm came to Philly, and it was worse than was originally expected! Many schools in the area yesterday dismissed students early and/or cancelled after-school events. A couple of crazy bastards parachuted down off the Comcast Center Sunday morning. Of course, as is requisite these days when you do something stupid and dangerous, a video was taken and promptly posted on YouTube (although sadly, it has since been taken down). Police are looking for......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. As promised, the 300 trailer. Cool. Sam Raimi is likely to direct a film featuring at least three classic pulp characters created by Street and Smith: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Avenger. We're one of those crazy people that thinks Raimi is pretty hit-or-miss as a director, so we'll wait and see on this one. But it sounds like it could be......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. All of you out there writing Spock/Kirk slash fiction (you know who you are!) should enjoy this incredibly filthy and wrong video for Nine Inch Nail's "Closer," composed of very suggestively edited clips from various episodes of the original "Star Trek." As for us...we mainly just find it kind of disturbing. Oh, and btw, for those of you unfamiliar with the......

Sorry, guys! We're distracted by Heroes as we write this, so no pointless babble here. Just go check out what our sister sites are doing! Austinist tells you how to vote so you don't have to think. Sweet! Parisist: Now, why on earth would anyone think that Parisians were rude? Chicagoist: Da Bears! SFist: Why doesn't John Street have him some fun affairs? Houstonist: Care to start a pool? How long before the fatal......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. For the past year, the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco has been giving rooms to artists to do with what they please. They recently gave a room to artist Jonathan Keats, who chose as his project to take a photograph of the room. Sounds kind of boring, but in this case it's a single continuous 100-year-long exposure......

It's Wednesday. Hump day. Even Mother Goose couldn't give it a break. But that shouldn't stop you from good times on the internet, as our sister -ists have proven to us. Bostonist did a much better job celebrating International Pi Day than we did. Torontoist: Judging from the huge climate difference between Dallas and Toronto, we're not sure that this decision would make any sense. But Hollywood can do anything, so congrats to Toronto, despite......

...Stupid: Kid Rock sues to stop the release of a sex tape starring him and Scott Stapp (the recently-married former frontman of Creed). We respect everyone's right to privacy, and we're not necessarily making fun of the suit. We're just making fun of the fact that KID ROCK AND SCOTT STAPP MADE A SEX TAPE. (Via People) ...Cute: Gwyneth Paltrow is proud of her baby bump. Ever since Demi Moore posed nude with hers,......

Try not to panic - but the dreaded pink, red and doily-clad holiday, St. Valentine's, is only a week away. If you're on the lookout for something to do other than you traditional dinner and a movie, Philly's got some less-than-ordinary Valentine themed attractions going on. (And to our single brethren, these events are also singles friendly): Q-Licious in the Park: Spiral Q Puppet Theatre will be bringing Cupid and their giant puppets to Love......

Phillyist knows you're probably sick to death of hearing about labor relations; however - it's good to remember that this isn't an issue unique to our time (or transit system). In that spirit, the GET-UP Film Project starts this week at iHouse, with it's thematic look at Labor Relations in film. The festival starts tonight with Fritz Lang's famouly distopian Metropolis, continues with a series of documentarites (Occupation: The Harvard Sit-In, Where Do You......

This week, Return to Sender and Phillial team up to give the men of Philadelphia the hand they so desperately need. Dear men of Philadelphia: So Return to Sender just tore you a new one, and you're probably pissed at us. But like our overbearing father told us, "We do it because we love." Admit it, Philly fellas. You don't want to be That Guy that the cute chicks subtly point at, whisper about, and......

By Daniel J. Linehan After watching Fantastic Planet (1973) last night at the International House, Phillyist came to the conclusion that René Laloux must be the George Lucas of French intellectuals. They share a certain indifference to the boring details of narrative logic and a certain knack, if you will, for dialogue. (To be fair, even Lucas might have improved the love scene that culminates with the declaration “You have all the knowledge of the......

Unless you live under a rock and/or have never clicked on a real-live-nude-girl website, thumbed through an issue of Playboy, or sashayed through your local sex shop, you've probably heard of Wednesday's passage of a new porn law by the Department of Justice. The legislation, known as Section 2257, could shut down a majority of the porn that you peruse. By invoking a noble purpose, the government has effectively found a way to circumvent that......