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(06/28/09 5:50am)
Up until recently, Penn graduate Mark DeRosa may have only been a solid utility infielder known mostly by dudes who play in deep fantasy baseball leagues. But tonight, he did something Ben Franklin wishes from beyond the grave he could have accomplished (maybe even instead of the bifocal). Yes, Mr. DeRosa made Twitter's "Trending Topics" after being traded from Cleveland to St. Louis. See, there he is, right between "Micheal Jackson" [sic] and "BET Awards."
(06/26/09 5:05am)
Listen, if there's one thing UTB loves, it's sports. So of course there was no way we could just sit around our lavish headquarters, drinking our raspberry lemonades, dabbing our noses with sunscreen and enjoying our mudbaths when such important, Philadelphia-related basketball news came across our desks. Ladies and gentlemen: the 76ers have changed their uniforms.
(03/05/09 12:08am)
Fatman Scoop at his best is like a better version of the Econ scream: loud, untamed, and a great way to relieve some stress. Lucky for us, in this time of midterms, Scoop (AKA everyone's favorite part of "Lose Control") is bringing his raspy voice and endless energy to West Philly for a performance alongside campus slam poets The Excelano Project. It all goes down tonight at 8:30 at the Millcreek Tavern on 42nd and Chestnut -- check here for more details. No word on whether he'll rock the boxers and beater look from his (amazing) love advice show Man and Wife, but we remain optimistic he'll keep his pants on.
(03/01/09 12:05am)
After some painstaking deliberation, we decided on the three winning lists of songs for our Girl Talk ticket giveaway. Combining the new and the old, the goofy and the sincere, the Haddaways and the Snoop Doggs, the winners crafted hypothetical mixes that would make Gregg Gillis proud. We've posted them after the jump...
(02/26/09 2:15pm)
So you missed out on buying tickets. And you missed DJ Rico. Dry your eyes, you crazy kids: you can still get get your grind on this Saturday. Thanks to M.U.S.I.C. For Your Mind, the organization bringing Girl Talk to Philly, we at UTB have four tickets to give away for the show. Here's what you need to do: just give us a list of the 10 songs you would put in a Girl Talk-esque mash-up. Send your list to underthebutton@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. tonight with the subject line "Girl Talk Contest." We'll post the winners tomorrow. The best entry will get a pair of tickets and the second and third place entries will get a ticket each. Good luck!
(02/01/09 2:00pm)
Yeah, UTB had to bring in a ringer to clear up this whole "Super Bowl" business. Enter certified Y-chromosome haver and Doug Funnie lookalike Ben Rosen.
(12/03/08 5:00pm)
Over the weekend, a new Jay-Z track produced by Kanye West (who should stick with producing or go back to being fun) leaked called “Brooklyn (Go Hard)”. It’s as if “Swagga Like Us” popped up on Kanye’s iPod and he was like, “Wow, I did a great job on that,” so he decided to make a poor man’s version of that hook. Naturally, he'd have Santogold, a somewhat poor man’s MIA, sing it. But it all works. In “Swagga,” all of the featured rappers, Hov included, talked about how cool they are, but here he just shows it. So if someone can find me a place in a Brooklyn dance crew as well as a situation where my new crew and I would all have to walk in slow motion into some sort of battle, I would really appreciate it because this song would work so well blasting from the boom box I’d be holding on my shoulder, right? Anyway, the song keeps popping up places on the internet and then it gets taken down, so we won’t link you anywhere specific for an mp3, but you can probably find it if you look.
(11/21/08 7:57pm)
Shaquille O’Neal aka Shaq Fu aka Kazaam has a Twitter. Incredible. We all need to follow this, guys. Convergences between ridiculous, cocky superstar athletes and strange social networking websites come along about as often as Philadelphia championships. Cherish this – it’s the nerdiest thing to happen to the NBA since Shawn Bradley. I love the image of Shaq sitting in the back of the Suns team bus, hunched over his cell phone, typing beautiful Tweets like “About to sit in the cold tub for about 20 min, then i'm a shoot some free throws” and “I just texted gary payton, one of the greatest point guards ever”. You know what, those are things we needed to know. Thanks, Shaq! I just hope this leads to more athletes embracing the internet. I can’t be the only person hungry for an Alge Crumpler Tumblr.
(11/12/08 8:30pm)
I'm devastated. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how you missed From G's To Gents, MTV's amazing reality show where former Diddy umbrella-holder, Fonzworth Bentley, taught self-proclaimed gangsters how to be gentlemen. I didn't think it was possible, but maybe Fonz could have done a better job because Cee and Kesan were recently arrested.
(10/26/08 5:06pm)
Since the initial flurry of excitement over “Love Lockdown” and the inevitable, appropriate backlash, a few songs from Kanye West's upcoming album 808s and Heartbreak have leaked to the internet. It appears the LP is a collection of love songs, short on rapping and full of auto-tuned wailing over sparse beats. As a devoted Kanye album-purchaser, Glow In The Dark tour-attendee, and “Jesus Walks” sing-alonger, I’m having a really hard time making up my mind on how I feel about this.
(10/02/08 1:00pm)
Surprise! There are things to watch on the internet beyond videos of cute animals and porn. Crazy, I know. Last year’s writers' strike saw a boom in original internet content as writers and actors had some newfound free time on their hands. But the internet is so huge--where does one start? UTB’s got you covered.