Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal are talking like teammates, but this isn't how Los Angeles fans wanted it to go down. While local media outlets are buzzing with this morning's news that Kobe wants a trade, his hometown paper found a different angle on the story. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "I believe Kobe 100 percent," said O'Neal, reached yesterday while in Los Angeles on business. "Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is... more ›

Even with LeBron leading his Cavs to much needed victory in the Eastern Conference Finals Tuesday night, the biggest story in the NBA is a team who has not played a game in exactly four weeks. The Lakers offseason has just been too wildly entertaining to take a backseat to the actual action on the court. And it just got better. Early Tuesday, team owner Jerry Buss was arrested in Carlsbad for suspicion of drunk... more ›

Today the Philadelphia Inquirer printed the obituary for Star C. Foster, the Phillyist Co-Editor who passed away this weekend when a tumor in her leg which metastasized went to her heart and killed her. more ›

The Philadelphia theater community has set up a protest blog to attack their vitriolic local critic, Toby Zinman, known as the Bitch of Broad Street for her snarky reviews. Zinman has been the main theater critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer since January and has alienated most of the town since then with statements like "You could go into the University of the Arts musical theater program and with your eyes shut point out five people who can sing the socks off this cast.” more ›

Unfortunately, the death of Hunter S. Thompson on Sunday stole our attention from the passing of a true Los Angeles icon. Before Blue Crush, before Roxy gear, even before Sally Field, there was Sandra Dee playing Gidget on the big screen and, perhaps single-handedly, letting girls know that they could surf too. She died Sunday at the age of 62. more ›