I'm at Solid Sound, Wilco's festival, and for the first time in my long festival-going life I have seen a WOMAN wearing a Utilikilt. she's watching Souled American.

A friend found the list and I'd like to know who the other two people besides them, me and @cohenesque.bsky.social were

Referring to Seth Bodnar and the Montana Democratic Party as "the left" is comedy nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

South Philly Autonomous Cinema has two hot screenings coming up! Revelations of Divine Love with a director chat at the Ethical Society on 6/14, then 6/22 is Fantasies & Nightmares, T4T Shorts Night at Nikki Lopez w funds going to Hearts on a Wire & Trans Resilience Fund. tix at cinemaphilly.com

There's someone trying to give away a free ticket to the Mekons show at the Latvian Society tonight! also it's no sold out so come on by!

I knew from the start Paxton was going to win because you can't bet against Texas doing the most insane thing possible, but it's still the most insane thing possible.

Happy 100th Anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis, which happened when Marshall Allen was 2 years old.

Spicy fuckin take here from the genius factory that paying a silly sweet tribute to Dan could cost Shapiro in the UNCONTESTED PRIMARY.

I voted

Things Texas could have done instead of this include expanding Medicaid so that it didn't keep taking the top place as the state with the most uninsured children in the country

after my car was in this video, I also learned that Mary's Club, my old Portland workplace, was in a Menzingers video some years back

Before it became a site by and for aspiring school shooters, Twitter/X was a great place to meet people, share dumb bits, find breaking news, and (for me at least) get paying work. I miss it. Here's one example why.

an improvement on the Trump / PPA rant signs usually in that window!

I just sold my Volvo 240 wagon, the latest in a storied line of Volvos I've owned, but before that she starred in this Menzingers video, along with the city of Philadelphia: youtu.be/agCQwDAk_AU?...

It's so great that I Shot Andy Warhol is getting a restoration re-release!! www.indiewire.com/news/general... It was almost lost www.screenslate.com/articles/rev...

lots of bad sheriff's departments out there to choose from but Clark County holds its own. gave a second fake job to the Portland cop who tried to pin a hit and run on a Portland council member, plus this www.oregonlive.com/clark-county...

I didn't see it coming

Like, I'm sure, a few hundred other people, I've had many reasons over the past couple months to think about texting something to Dan McQuade, but none hit me so hard as wanting to ask him if he knew where I'd look for a picture of the All In The Family strip club that used to be on Locust.

a short story about Philadelphia accountability from my block

Messages found all around Philly: ICE OUT.

this is how I learned the name of the man I would marry, after seeing him backstage interviewing Stephen Malkmus

November 1992

Good morning! I have a new piece about the 1986 Texas women’s basketball team, which 40 years ago became the first women’s bball team to go undefeated and win the championship. How hard it was to do and how great this team was that did it. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

If, instead of making everyone bottleneck at security, they gave passengers a choice of going ahead and taking their chances on a flight with no TSA screening, how many do you think would go ahead and do it? I would guess north of 60% www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

“Does having stickers and zines and being part of a bookclub holding antifascist ideologies make her a terrorist?”

Happy 3/11 everyone youtu.be/SUFSB2plwzM?...

And you can come see it next month with a lineup of more great horror by locals: cinemaphilly.com/screening/un...

we screened this in December and it's terrific!

Philly Mag let me write about a genuinely funny (and gross) zombie movie with a provocative premise. Made by a Philadelphia filmmaker, of course. www.phillymag.com/news/2026/03...

what a bunch of chumps!!

I think Adam Silver did the right thing, a valuable institution like Magic City shouldn’t have to deal with the cultural baggage of the Hawks

Instant Philadelphia classic

Good crowd out for a 5 pm showing of a documentary about Philly's trash system -- the people crave infrastructure deep dives www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/in-ex...

Obviously the important part is this ridiculous law, but the photo made me double take at the resemblance of Kansas graphics to the Screamadelica guy (nonbinary)

Philly: I have an extra ticket for tonight's Dan McQuade memorial at the Pen and Pencil, you can meet me there: www.eventbrite.com/e/rememberin...

did not realize this was now a $500 book on my shelf ... will that stop me rereading it? no

A fun and dare I say spicy update: Alice Little, the sex worker quoted in my story as opposing the union effort, is starting work at Sheri's Ranch next month, something she did not disclose in our interview, or an in op-ed she just published. We've updated our story to reflect this new-to-me info!

Are we getting a Philadelphia/New Jersey version for the games here? hmm "Philadelphia, New Jersey" does have a certain ring to it

Can't stop laughing about Action News going to South Philly's beloved Taco Heart and putting this on the footage

That’s Dan❤️‍🩹🦅

I regret not getting the opportunity to know Dan better- we recently connected bc he was to write ab our ep where the Simpsons visit Philly, &he reminded me that we had actually crossed paths in HS! His passing is a tremendous loss. I dedicate the episode to him. 🎁 : share.inquirer.com/qwdHeh

Good story on FIRE in the Inquirer that covers how they still care about free speech when it comes for woke and why there's skepticism towards them on the left www.inquirer.com/news/a/fire-...

I got into it a little over dinner a couple months ago with Jason's (very nice) old friends who live in Noe Valley and like Newsom and I said something like "I don't think he's much better than, say, George W," and they were RILED.

I get irrationally annoyed by "midnight ballerina" probably because to me it sounds like something a corny manager would have coined...someone tell the dancers about "being a model in the shoe show" or "ecdysiast"

The insult of hearing the ice cream truck jingle in these conditions. It's 30°

😏

Just seeing that the sex workers at Sheri's have filed for a union election www.nlrb.gov/case/28-RC-3...

are they trying Venezuela stuff there?! this is crazy.

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