Hugs for Puppies, the awesomely-named foie gras-hating organization that now seems to have become The Humane League of Philadelphia, has provided more than a few dinnertime laughs for me. It's not that I hate animals. It's just that with all of the other crap going on in the world, the fact that a g...

Anyone else find the color just a little off? Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales are the planet’s largest creatures, yet we hardly ever see them. Their calls travel thousands of miles, but we can barely hear them. Now, National Geographic embarks on a mission to w...

Last month's Ben Folds concert at the Electric Factory wasn't just disappointing because of how late the concert ran, or how uncharacteristically unenergetic Folds was. It was also disappointing because of just how rude several audience members standing near us were. The people in question—inc...

Hijablogging: Just another global trend taking the blogosphere by storm. All around the world, women who opt to wear hijab (the Islamic head covering) are also opting to blog about their experiences, as well as veiled fashion, lifestyle, experience, and the political and religious issues surrounding...

It's an interesting idea, casting some of Philadelphia's most recognizable musical and comedic actors in a play that's certainly neither of those things. But perhaps so dramatically recasting Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, as director Malcolm Black has done at the Walnut Street Theatr...

Neal Dandade is one of my heroes. Luckily for me, unlike most people's heroes, I know mine. Quite well, actually: Neal and I go back ten years and two thousand miles to Coronado High School in El Paso, Texas. We acted together then, and now I'm lucky to get onstage once a year, but Neal is doing it ...

...And the keffiyeh makes headlines once again. After last summer, when conservative freakshow Michelle Malkin threw a hissy fit over a Dunkin' Donuts commercial featuring Rachael Ray in a keffiyeh-ish scarf and Dunkin' Donuts pulled the commercial, I thought it was over. As the winds of autumn bega...

Warning: If you're a foodie like me, this website is dangerous. Whatever you do, don't click on that link. It'll take you to Tastespotting, which is the biggest collection of food porn I've ever seen. What's that? Too late? You clicked? Well, you'd better not add it to your RSS feeds. Oh crap. You d...

Sometimes I wanna cry out my long-kept-tears… But Im scared that no one will bother to show some care… And that is why I have decided to keep it all here… And I don’t care even if it will be too hard to bear… Because sometimes, even friends don’t mind if you are i...

Being the Lupe Fiasco fan that I am, I don't know how I didn't catch this sooner. Unfortunately, I can't really make it what he's saying (lots of screaming girls, of course), but his shirt says it all: For those of you unfamiliar with Lupe, he's a Chicago-born Muslim rapper whose song "Daydreamin'" ...